There is a fundamental flaw with battery pack Wii remote chargers like Nyko’s Charge Station for the Wii and Energizer’s Power & Play Recharge Station; they cannot be used with the silicone sleeve that wraps around the Wii remote to protect it and anything you accidentally throw it at from damage. And no one wants to unwrap a remote just to charge it.
To the rescue comes Tekno Creations’ Wii InCharge Dual Charge Station, a charger that can send a current straight through the silicone sleeve.
What Makes It Different
The InCharge is an inductive charger, so unlike a typical charger, which requires metal contacts on the battery pack to touch metal contacts on the base, the InCharge Station will charge the InCharge battery pack you put in your Wii remote if it is within perhaps an inch of the base. The sleeve is irrelevant to the charger.
This is pretty neat, and if you’ve avoided getting a charger because you didn’t want to give up your sleeve then the InCharge is a virtual necessity.
The Charge Station That Could Have Been Perfect
The InCharge could have been the perfect charger if not for two things. The first is a “what might have been” reason. One of the drawbacks of chargers is the minor hassle of having to unplug your nunchuk to use them. The InCharge base could have fixed this with a slot in the end that would make it possible to lay the remote in the base cradle with nunchuk attached. Tekno says having the nunchuk attached takes more power, to which I say, so what? They also claim most people don’t care about leaving the nunchuk attached, but I am not so unique that I want something no one else in the world wants.
It is possible to balance the remote on top of the charger in such a way that it will charge with nunchuk attached, but it would be nicer if it were simply designed for this.
A bigger problem is the way the InCharge lets you know your remote is fully charged. Energizer and Nyko chargers uses a light that changes color; the InCharge uses a blinking light.
I hate things that flash; it makes me feel I have to take action. The whole reason I use ad blockers with my Internet browser is because I hate flashing ads. I stopped watching a TV series at one point because the station constantly displayed a flashing, animated logo.
Flashing lights are a warning sign; they should be used when your nuclear power plant is about to melt down, not when your remote is charged up. With the other chargers I simply leave the remote in the base until I want to use it, with the InCharge Station I always feel the need to take the remote out of the base to stop the flashing light.
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