Meet the Gryopad, a motion sensing gamepad protytpe that a company called Gyration made for Nintendo six years ago back in 2001. Some old slides have been found which reveal more information on the controller which forms one piece instead of the current separate Wii remote and Nunchuk setup.

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In an alternative universe this is what the Nintendo Wii's Wiimote and nunchuck would have looked like: this is the amazing transforming GyroPod, a motion-sensing gamepad prototype that Gyration made for Nintendo back in 2001.

Thanks to a recent chance encounter, we were able to uncover a couple of PowerPoint slides that showed the GyroPod, a prototype design for a one-handed motion sensing controller designed specifically by Gyration for Nintendo. Back-story and the slides after the jump. Gyration is a company that holds most of the best motion-sensing patents. Nintendo licensed a number of those patents from Gyration in 2001, and brought the company on board that year to develop a one-handed controller. (Nintendo even became an investor in Gyration, which is now owned by Thomson.)