For the second year in a row, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has honored Nintendo with an Emmy Award for excellence in engineering creativity. Why? Because the DS and the Wii are so nicely engineered.

 "The pioneering interfaces for Wii and Nintendo DS reflect our long tradition of seeking new ways to enhance the gaming experience for users at every level," said Don James, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of operations. "We're grateful for this award and thank the academy for honoring us a second time.

Last year, Nintendo won the Emmy for having invented the plus-shaped D-Pad we'e all come to know and love.

The presentation of the Technological & Engineering Emmy Awards last night at CES was not affected by the Hollywood writers strike, as Yoshi writes all his own jokes.

UPDATE: The above (lame) joke is actually not true! According to Next Generation: "Peter Price, President and CEO of NATAS said that due to litigation with Hollywood's Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the Tech Emmy winners would be unable to receive statuettes at the current time. But he stated, '...Once victorious, we plan to present each winner from tonight's event with their own Emmy.'"