Well, the flash mem was from a while ago, and no we were not surprised by it, because of the WiiMote having some as well and it possibly being useful for uMote only games.
But what I was pointing out was the mention of the cradle in that same patent that we had not noticed before.
I updated a few things last night since it seems that other forums are pulling up stories that seemed so familiar, and I know we had seen those stories before, but I couldn't find them in the Rumor List. Now we can, as we had previously discussed all that stuff when it was new (except for the cradle, which I had pointed out that Miyamoto had mentioned in an interview before, but we hadn't heard about it since.)