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"Our faces lit up this morning after seeing this image on Famitsu's site. Surely, this was it: Nintendo's long-awaited solution to the storage woes of every Wii-owning geek and otaku on the planet. Alas, no. After scrambling for a machine translation of the accompanying kanji, our hopes were emphatically mangled. This is no HDD unit, but a portable air conditioner the \"Nintendo WiFi Network Adapter.\" Once again, life had thrown us a cruel curveball. Happy Monday morning, us.Anyway, if you struggle to get your Wii or DS online (and we know from experience that it can be fiddly), then this dinky wireless LAN router is for you. It can be used with the Wii, the DS, your PC, and other devices, and will be available on Nintendo's Japanese homepage from September 18th, priced at &amp;yen;5,800 (US$53). There's no news yet on a launch outside Japan, though as the Nintendo WiFi USB Connector was discontinued late last year, a western release would be a safe bet. Hit the break for three more images, one of which depicts the adapter's three modes: \"Router,\" \"Bridge\" (for connecting to your Wii or DS via another router), and \"Auto\" (which automatically switches your network). As for our ongoing storage issues, we're still waiting, Shiggy/Reggie/Satoru ..."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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