Category: gadgetry
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Ben Heck Found a Use for the Neo Geo Mini
Ben Heck left The Ben Heck Show at Element 14 and is back on his own channel. SNK’s cash-in on the mini console wave produced a mostly disappointing miniature arcade machine that doesn’t even wear the red and white color scheme we’ve come to expect. Heck’s first big project post TBHS is tearing down the…
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Toio Papercraft Robots
Sony has a new line of papercraft robot toys coming out in Japan that look extremely inventive in the way they blend a robotic core with handmade paper accessories to build machines. Check out these videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6j2cLEwRsY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SphUHrlj1Tk
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What’s Lap, Dog?
E. Fylladitakis writing for Anandtech has this excellent review of the Corsair Lapdog. It is either the best or worst possible name for a product that connotates this: …but is actually this keyboard and mouse ergonomic nightmare for playing FPS games on a couch the right way: Although it looks cool, it is actually going…
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Today in Payphone News
jwz’s payphone runs Linux now: One of the props that I picked up to decorate DNA Lounge at the first Cyberdelia was an old payphone. It wasn’t hooked up for the first party, but just in time for the second party, it now runs Linux. When I was trying to decide what I wanted the…