I saw this the other day and wondered why this was such big find. It was already a given that the U-Pad had to have some type of flash memory to hold information like Mii’s or the capability to transfer things between different Wii U systems.

A magnetometer measures disturbances in a device’s magnetic field. Basically like Jedi powers.  a Magnetometer has been used in cell phones and GPS to keep track of true north.

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