" TOKYO (XFN-ASIA) - Nintendo Co Ltd will recall 3.2 mln hand straps for its new Wii game console after reports of enthusiastic users inadvertently throwing the motion-sensing controller into their TV screens, the company said.

'We are announcing the recall of 3.2 mln straps for the Wii computer remote controllers,' Nintendo (other-otc: NTDOY.PK - news - people ) spokesman Yasuhiro Minagawa said.

'The decision comes after reports that some users in the US threw their controllers when playing with Wii sports software,' he said."

"The service, known as MediaHedge, works by checking the digital fingerprint, or unique characteristics, of video files and looking for a match in Philips' database of video content. If a match it found, the system can block the video from uploading or enforce usage restrictions.

The service can spot a match even if the video clip is degraded, altered or is only a small slice of the original video, according to Philips Content Identification, a unit of the Netherlands' Philips Electronics NV. Philips has yet to announce customers who will be using the MediaHedge system, although copyright holders are expected to be required to subscribe to the service in order to have their content included in Philips' database."

"A San Francisco couple who took a road trip with their two young daughters to spend Thanksgiving in the Pacific Northwest did not return as expected Monday and is now considered missing.

San Francisco police are asking the public's help in locating James and Kati Kim and their two daughters, Penelope, 4, and Sabine, 7 months. The family was last seen in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday."

"Our research also shows that there exist simple cryptographic techniques that the Nike+iPod Sport Kit designers could have used to improve the privacy-preserving properties of the Nike+iPod kit,' the group reports. 'Our work underscores the need for a broad public discussion about and further research on the privacy-preserving properties of new wireless personal gadgets,' the group reports. 'We stress, however, that there is no evidence that Apple or Nike intended for these devices to be used in any malicious manner. Additionally, neither Apple nor Nike endorsed this study."

"Asustek announced the introduction of two new motherboards that help bridge the gap between your standard phone and access to VoIP. The motherboards achieve this with the inclusion of the Asus TeleSky telecom adapter, which allows a standard phone to function as a VoIP phone as well.

The Asustek M2N/TeleSky and the P5B/TeleSky motherbaords both incorporate this new connection, which takes a standard phone input and another jack for connecting to your home phone network. This allows you to build a PC that supports both Public Switched Telephone Networks (PSTN) and Skype."

"Now image you are the One Laptop Per Child software design team, and you've just received the very first order of Children's Machine XO's. Around a thousand pounds of laptops actually, and you wanna take one for a fun filled test drive.

You could play with all the software on them, like AbiWord or the Sugar OS, or you could install new software you've developed just for this working model.

Or you could do what Christopher Blizzard and friends did. You could get all old school crazy and install and play DOOM (the original) on the OLPC XO:"

"Of the three console makers, Nintendo so far seems to have done the most thorough job in getting retailers and distributors stocked. The $250 Wii console, which went on sale over the weekend, was available in several retail outlets. Some early buyers are selling consoles on eBay, but generally current bidding is in the $300 to $400 range with games and extras.

By contrast, Sony will only bring a few hundred thousand PlayStation 3 consoles to the states by the end of the year, according to various estimates. eBay bidders are putting $700 and $900 bids on the $499 and $599 consoles. (Some buyers are listing minimum bids of $1,000 or more, but these auctions have attracted few punters.)"

"But in near-zero gravity, Tyurin won't need clubhead speed or rotary hip power to best the biggest hitters on the professional tour. The balls are expected to circle the Earth for three days, flying millions of miles before gravity tugs them on destructive plunges through the atmosphere.

Said Shireman: "It might last forever in terms of the golf statistics."

Toronto-based Element 21 Golf Company is paying the Russian Federal Space Agency an undisclosed amount of money for Tyurin to carry out the so-called "golf experiment." A television commercial is envisioned."

"On Monday, analysts said chip maker Broadcom Corp. was likely to supply chips for the cell phone that Apple could launch in early 2007.

Broadcom shares rose Monday on the Apple phone rumor, as well as several other factors, including an improving outlook for the general chip market and the successful weekend launch of Nintendo Co. Ltd’s Wii game console, which includes Broadcom chips."