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What's New With the Wii?

Nintendo launches Wii Digicam Print Channel in Japan

Nintendo of Japan has just introduced a new Wii channel that offers the best reason yet for the Wii to have any sort of photo functionality built-in: the Digicam Print Channel. In short, through a collaboration with Fujifilm, Japanese Wii users can order up prints of their digital photos – accessed via the console's SD slot, of course – along with special photo books for ¥1,575 ($14.71), super deluxe Mario-flavored photo books for ¥2,480 ($23.16), or meishi (think Japanese business cards) sporting the user's very own Mii, available at ¥500 per 30 cards.
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Guitar Hero: Aerosmith for the Wii Giveaway

Okay - this is a cool one! For the first time, the House of Hair is hooking up with Guitar Hero and giving you a chance to win the game in the ultracool Wii format. It’s the first of the Guitar Hero games devoted to one band - AEROSMITH! Red Octane’s given us 10 Guitar Hero: Aerosmith Wii games to give away, PLUS one grand prize winner gets the Guitar Hero: Aerosmith Bundle (seen in above photo) containing the game, a limited Aerosmith guitar, and stickers to customize your guitar valued at $100!

Guitar Hero: Aerosmith Wii Game

PLUS

One (1) Grand Prize winner gets the Guitar Hero: Aerosmith Bundle containing the game, a limited Aerosmith guitar, and stickers to customize your guitar!
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Thats all for now, more to come in the near future!
RJ1022

Nintendo might solve storage issue with holograms

http://gamerzgalore.net/fullNews.php?newsId=92

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August 5, 2008 @ 12:58 - RJ1022

Summary:
A recent Nintendo patent filing hints that Nintendo is thinking outside the box to solve the Wii storage issue.

Holodeck or holo-storage?

It might sound more Star Trek: The Next Generation than video games, but Nintendo is apparently looking into the growing field of holographic storage to solve the Wii storage issue.

Holographic storage is a new way of storing data in which that data is contained in a 3-D space, as opposed to on the surface of a disk, as is the case in the PS3 or Xbox 360's HDDs. The technique is pretty cutting edge, but once it becomes mainstream it could be capable of mutli-terabyte storage. That's a lot of copies of WiiWare beer pong.

Where Nintendo comes into this story is that its name has appeared alongside holographic storage company InPhase Technologies on a joint patent filing. The filing is for a scanner to read holographic discs.

It's an interesting fix to a growing problem for Wii owners, but we have to ask if Nintendo is using an atom bomb to address this issue, when what they really need is a hammer.

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