For Macworld this year Google Earth iPhone engineer David Phillip Oster assembled a program that lets you surf Google Earth (api) with the Nintendo Wii Fit Balance Board.

Based on Thatcher Ulrich’s open source Javascript Monster Milktruck demo. David wrapped it as a Macintosh application program so he could add Objective-C Macintosh Bluetooth support to decode the Bluetooth packets from the Wii Balance Board.

I’m going to have to try this. If only to change the surfing Milktruck into something more appropriate. Perhaps a Silversurfer?

Earth Surfer and its source code will be available next week on the Google Mac Developer forum.

(See also: Flying Through Google Earth at Macworld)