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digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/nintendo_wii/EA_s_Boogie_mic_for_Wii_is_unexciting’; Well, we knew it wasn’t going to be earth-shattering, but this first shot of the mic for EA’s Singstar-meets-DDR Wii game Boogie doesn’t even set off mild tremors. The USB unit is the first mic for the Wii, however, and that’s gotta count for something, right? Still, we’re not giving up hope for Nintendo to finally ship the fabled Wiimote microphone that plugs into that unused “audio translator” chip — it’s gotta happen sometime. Right?[Via Wii Fanboy] Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsOffice Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

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However, in 1906, private inventor Dr. Lee De Forest invented the three-element
vacuum tube known as the audion. This device allowed a long distance phone signal
to be amplified. The patent was purchased six years after its invention by AT&T
in 1912. Once AT&T purchased the patent, they devised a way to increase the vacuum
of the audion chamber and lessened the quantity of internal gases, allowing the
device to be used even more effectively for international long distance telephony.
This invention spurred the progress of coast-to-coast long distance until on June
17, 1914, the last pole went up in Wendover, Utah, linking the lines originating
on the West Coast and the East, enabling the first transcontinental telephone call,
which was not made until January 25, 1915. This momentous event was delayed so long
so that it would coincide with the exposition that was to be held in San Francisco
that year celebrating the end of construction on the Panama Canal.

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