It lets a user specify between three and five pals on the social network (no more, no less) who can be counted on to pass along a special code if the user somehow gets locked out of his or her account.
Increasingly, these devices look less like Windows PCs than a new breed of network client- simple, special purpose devices that access the user's data, applications and services on networked servers.
Meanwhile, the company is trying out 3-D movies and other 3-D content on the upcoming 3DS handheld, which can display games in 3-D without the user having to wear special glasses.