July 9th, 2008 by David Hinkle
Filed under: Peripherals
Our friends across the pond (and Chris) have a choice when it comes to keyboards for their Wii. No, we’re not talking about the wide assortment of cheap USB keyboards that are out there and compatible with the console, we mean Logic 3’s Wii keyboard above. Aside from its plain design, it features the normal QWERTY set-up and will cost you £14.99 (about $30). It will release on July 18th.
[Via Engadget]
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November 14th, 2007 by JC Fletcher
Filed under: News, Nintendo Wi-Fi, Peripherals
Nintendo's online store is no longer offering the Nintendo Wi-Fi USB Connector. According to the item's listing, it has been "discontinued until further notice." Tipster BPM speculates that Nintendo's deal with
Buffalo Technology has ended. We find it more likely that the proliferation of cheap wireless routers, which work
even with non-Nintendo devices like computers, caused demand for the item to shrink.
Nintendo suggests the
Wii LAN Adapter as a potential substitute for the USB dongle, or you can
just go buy a wireless router.
Of course, no activity on Nintendo's part is any fun without some idle speculation. With that in mind, the
real reason they've discontinued this item is because they're going to release a new version that has a picture of Mario on it.
[Thanks, BPM!]
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October 28th, 2007 by astrotriforce
Nintendo has upgraded it’s Wii & DS USB Wi-Fi Adapter to include support for the Microsoft Windows Vista Operating System. FINALLY!
What does this mean you ask?
Well if you use the USB Adapter to get your Wii or DS online, you may have noticed that it will only work on computers running Windows XP. If you had Windows Vista, then you were out of luck. Until now there was no official way to get around the problem and Nintendo had been mum on when it would upgrade the program to run with Windows Vista. Now they have!
And this picture is proof:
If you have the device then download the Wii & DS USB Wi-Fi Adapter Vista upgrade directly from Nintendo to update your program right now!
I recently bought a laptop that includes Vista and couldn’t use the USB Adapter with it. Now I can! Yay! 
By the way, in case you missed it, Nintendo also recently upgraded the Wii system to include support for USB keyboards (which can plug directly in the back of the Wii console), and that includes the ability to use the keyboard with sending Wii messages as well as while surfing the Internet with the Wii! It’s a huge help. Apparently the keyboard doesn’t work with the Everybody Votes Channel though . . . at least it didn’t when I tried it. — Via GoNintendo
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October 11th, 2007 by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Peripherals
Yesterday, after the
update enabling USB keyboards in the web browser was released,
Logitech mentioned that they'd be releasing a special Wii keyboard. We immediately got the crazy idea of a keyboard with a Wii pointer built in, so you can point and click by waving the keyboard around. It was a weirdly practical, and fun, idea.
But as always, reality is less awesome than our controller fantasies. Logitech announced that their "new" USB keyboard will be ... the
Classic Keyboard 200. (pictured above). They added a blurb to the Japanese product page that mentions that it's been tested with the Wii browser and found to work. Which means that you can
get the new Wii peripheral right now, because it's
just their basic USB keyboard. It only seems to be available in white in Japan, however. Importing might be worth it for you, because in addition to the color, the logo will say "Logicool" (Logitech's Japanese name) which we find
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January 1st, 1970 by David Hinkle
Filed under: Wii Warm Up
Aside from charging a
Wiimote dock or utilization the
limited keyboard support, you might not think the USB ports on the back of that sexy Wii of yours are useful in regards to much else. In this day and age, lots of things can charge or run on USB. Heck, we know we charge our cell phone on USB more often than whipping out the AC adapter and plugging it into an outlet.
Considering that, we wanted to know how you're making use of the Wii's USB ports. If you leave your console in standby, you can charge this or that through your Wii. So, how do you make use of the USB ports?
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