Initially, development focused on a "Wii Zapper" with a small screen and a gyroscope connected to a Wii remote and nunchuk, feeding movement data to the display.

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It's a small DVD player shaped like a laptop computer with a small screen that is more or less aimed directly at frequent fliers who share our opinion of in-flight movies.

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The principle is simple: the Internet was not designed to be accessed or interacted with a really small screen.

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