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solar media player emulates nes, genesis, gameboy

media players | mobile tech | video games

Media Street EM-SOL2GIG MP3 MP4 Game Portable

Not only can this portable media player crank out movies and music, but it can play games from classic consoles from Nintendo and SEGA too. It can even charge itself or other devices with its built-in solar panels…

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August 23rd, 2008 1 comment stumble it! author: technabob

plush portables possess plenty of panache

geek art & craft | media players | video games

Plush Nintendo DS Lite by KmilaRodz

I was buzzing about over on the wonderful world of Etsy today, when I came across these absolutely awesome plush versions of popular portable electronic gadgets. French textile artist Kmila Rodz handcrafts these super special soft systems using felt, needle and thread, with a just a dash of love thrown in…

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June 26th, 2008 2 comments stumble it! author: technabob

shoes embedded with working nintendo gameboys

geek art & craft | retro | strange and wonderful | video games

White Gameboy Shoes

These ostentatious shoes and boots are embedded with working Gameboys. The best part? You can pop out the Gameboys and play with them!

Like almost every other cutting-edge, kooky techno-fashion mashup, these have been spotted on teenage girls in Japan…

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June 2nd, 2008 8 comments stumble it! author: karen

nes controller, gameboy swallow nintendo ds lite

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Nintendo DS Lite Felt Cases

These clever cases may look like retro Nintendo technology, but they’re actually designed to keep your spankin’ new Nintendo DS Lite safe and cosy.

Artist janis13 creates these great classic Gameboy and NES Controller pouches which are just the right size for the DS Lite. Each case is made from felt with hand-sewn felt appliqués to give them a nice 3-dimensional texture…

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April 10th, 2008 post a comment stumble it! author: technabob

super mario is super shadowbox art

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josh_burker_supermario_shadowbox

I think some of us in the world would be likely to 1) get frustrated and/or 2) discard a broken handheld electronic game pretty quickly if we couldn’t fix it. Or is it just me? Whatever the answer is, I know the resourceful Josh Burker would bust a different move. Check out how he modified an old Nintendo Game Boy into a fun shadowbox art piece!..

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March 3rd, 2008 post a comment stumble it! author: thescholar

handheld nintendo emulator goes solar

gadgets | media players | mobile tech | video games

NES GBA GBC Emulator Portable Solar Media Player

This portable gaming beast not only plays games from three classic Nintendo systems, it runs on the power of the sun. Out of the box, the player can handle NES/Famicom, Gameboy and Gameboy Color titles, as long as you can get the ROMs transfered to an SD card. Of course, I won’t tell you how to do that, but that’s what search engines are for, right?..

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January 22nd, 2008 8 comments stumble it! author: technabob

gameboy octopus music controller mod

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Gameboy Foot Controller by No Carrier

What’s got 8 tentacles and the brains of a Nintendo GameBoy? It’s an 8-bit music maker’s dream, that’s what. Electronic musician Joey Mariano (aka “Animal Style“) took an old GameBoy Color system and built a custom controller for it that uses 8 individual foot pedal controllers to jam out on the device…

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November 26th, 2007 post a comment stumble it! author: technabob

pc gets crammed into gameboy case

computing | hacks-mods | strange and wonderful | video games

Gameboy Windows PC CaseMod

While it’s certainly not the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen, you’ve got to hand it to this casemodder for his gumption.

This supremely modified Nintendo Gameboy has become host to an entire Windows XP computer. The system uses that new EPIA Pico-ITX mobo I was telling you about a few days back to get things down to size…

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May 9th, 2007 post a comment stumble it! author: technabob

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