Photos: Cracking open the Wii

Bill Detwiler at CNET News.com sister site TechRepublic got his hands on a Nintendo Wii a while back and took the thing apart piece by piece for readers' enjoyment. News.com is publishing this excerpt.

TechRepublic runs a regular series called "Cracking Open" in which they take a look inside a variety of gadgets. Follow along as Detwiler documents the carnage and reconstruction in his own words.

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