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Today’s shorts for 21 September 2006.

USBCell provides a rechargeable NiMH battery in the shape of an AA battery to use in normal devices (above) [link]
Office 2007 details revealed for Mac, including new UI, with the ‘ribbon’ from Office 2007 for Window [link]
Microsoft steals Zune P2P idea from WeedShare? [link]
Apple sells 125,000 movies on the iTunes [...]

It turns out that the both the Wii itself, and first party games will be region locked. This comes as a blow to many who felt that Nintendo made a good decision in keeping the Wii region-free. Nintendo of America’s Vice-President of Marketing & Corporate Affairs Perrin Kaplan stated that “Like the Nintendo DS, the [...]

And it’s green! Leave it upto Nintendo to do such a radical and cool thing to the dev kits. I think it looks very retro. An anonymous tip was sent to Engadget with this, and another 4 photos of the Wii, including multiple angle shots. There is a photo of it next to a keyboard, [...]

We have a European launch date and price! Though it is much later than the US and a few days later than the launch in Japan, at least it will be here before Christmas. The 360 launch was similar last year. The Wii will be on sale on December 8th throughout Europe for £179 / [...]

Before I get to my other posts, there has been a lot of Wii information released today, and I don’t have the time to post about them all, so I’ll give you the lowdown:

USA TODAY have posted an article detailed the release information of the Wii, as well as the box that will be used [...]

It looks like Northa America will be getting the Wii earlier than Japan which is quite strange. The details were also spilled early in by Seattle PI, then removed and re-instated. But at Nintendo’s NYC press conference the details were official revealed. The Americas will receive the Wii at a MSRP of $249 USD (or [...]

Today at Nintendo’s Japanese Wii Conference, they revealed the pricing and more details of the Japanese launch for the Nintendo Wii. Japan receive their Wii on December 2nd, which is less than a month after the US get it (November 19th). The price will be 25 000 yen, which includes tax. That is roughly £113 [...]

When Microsoft announced that they are releasing Windows Vista RC1 I immediately went to download it. I didn’t in the previous BETA because I didn’t want to destroy my dad’s Windows PC. But now he wants to try it out so we downloaded it. However I realised that I needed to become a part of [...]

The shorts for today (and some from the past) are:

Rotating Lego Chaingun that shoots elastic bands at 11 rounds per second - with video [link]
Why Linux doesn’t need defragging (good article) [link]
World’s worst hacker - IRC transcript (absolutely hilarious) [link]
iTunes 7 for Windows includes a Software Update like app to update Quicktime and iTunes [link]
Joystiq’s [...]

Although this is a couple of days old, I thought I should blog about it because it is really unique. You may have seen somewhere on the internet, devices that are portable versions of old consoles — ie, the N64, NES, etc — well this is like that, except it is unbelievably small. Folded up [...]