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Hdmyboy brings Game Boy classics to our TV screens

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The Game Boy revolutionized the world by bringing forth the idea of portable gaming, but if you would rather remember it looking sharp and beautiful, here is a little something for you.

The Game Boy can be emulated on phones, computers, tablets, other video game consoles and pretty much anything that can run a line of code. This, though, doesn’t help the users who would rather run the official game carts on the original hardware, with proper sound and speed and guarantee of minimal glitching. Those are the users that the Hdmyboy project targets.

The Hdmyboy is a non-intrusive modification of the Game Boy that adds an HDMI output to the console so users can stream their beloved classics to the TV screen. As it is running on official hardware, every game is compatible, so get ready to revisit Link’s Awakening, Pokemon Red & Blue, Castlevania Adventure or Super Mario Land. The Hdmyboy has controller support, with the team recommending the classic NES controller, the Game Boy’s home console equivalent at the time.

While this doesn’t come cheap, and will set you back between $143 to $156 USD, it’s the only way we know of to be able to enjoy Game Boy titles on the TV screen running on the original, licensed Nintendo hardware (so no, the Super Game Boy doesn’t count, that’s SNES hardware). If the retro appeal is too great to pass on, this might be the gadget for you. If not, we’ll always have emulators.

Via Engadget

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Push button, receive bacon: early internet meme comes to life

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Long overdue by many years, an old meme receives a new wind by coming into existence. The result is both hilarious and delicious.

An early Internet meme (Ok, 2004 is not that early, but still) made fun of the instructions found on hand dryer devices by writing Push Button, Receive Bacon around them either in printed letters or just hand-writing, as the hot air depicted in the pictures totally looked like bacon strips. Minessota inventors at The Rabbit Hole created a machine based off of that idea for the Deconstruction.

This bacon machine doesn’t actually use any hot air to cook the bacon but a fuser from a laser printer instead. This fuser can already go over 450ºF, and goes around the meat cooking it so a paper shredder can cut it in strips afterwards. Isn’t this the thing we’ve all been wanting for so long?

Via Technabob

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Retro DC comic book watches for heroic wrists

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DC super heroes are amongst the most classic icons of classic 20th century America, and ever since we started talking smartwatches, so seem the regular old watches. So what happens when you combine DC heroes and watches? Pure magic, let me tell you.

This set of watches come via ThinkGeek, who are asking for $29.99 a piece. They’re based off of classic comic book covers from the late 30s and early 40s, and feature DC heroes’ Batman and Superman from Detective Comics #27 (May 1939), and Action Comics #10 (March 1939), an early first appearance for Superman. These are officially licensed watches made out of first class materials, so if they interest you at all, head over to ThinkGeek to check them out.

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Near Field Communications (NFC) coming to cars soon

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Near Field Communications (NFC), the technology that allows to easily pair your smartphone with any other device might soon be coming to cars all around the US.

Recent reports indicate that car manufacturers and developers are looking into NFC functionalities for their new models in order to allow their users to pair their smartphones and other gadgets with their vehicles. The report comes from a Dutch company called NXP, who claims to be working on this technology, and how to apply it on a big scale, which they assume will be ready by 2016. What companies would benefit from their services remains to be disclosed.

What NFC would allow, exactly, is to pair your gadgets with the vehicle’s entertainment system, and make it easier to play your favorite songs, or use your phone as a GPS, amongst other options. Furthermore, the phone could recognize user profiles, and automatically set up seat positions, climate control, and so on. While not game-changing, it sure does sound nice.

Via Geeky Gadgets

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Get ready to tweet money at your friends – make it rain

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Who says Twitter is all about sharing inane, sarcastic comments to a crowd not paying attention? Twitter is getting ready to allow users to tweet money.

Groupe BPCE is France’s second biggest bank by customers, and a force to be reckoned with when it comes to the French economy. Their team are getting ready to work with Twitter’s, as they attempt to first dip their toes into the world of online payments. What they attempt to do is to allow users to straight up transfer money via tweets.

Apple and Facebook aren’t the only ones experimenting with alternative ways to get revenue via mobile phones or apps, it seems. Groupe BPCE has clarified that they intend to work only with French users and consumers as of now, regardless of which bank they use or whether or not they know the recipient’s details – basically, a tweet is all it takes to send money. These transferences will be managed via the S-Money service, a service which already allows users to send currency over text messages while using the credit card industry’s data security standards.

The interesting part will be the ramifications of this. Can you imagine users straight up getting money for talking about coffee, their day, and their car problems? Seems being a twitstar might eventually become a full time job, if the community engages enough.

Via Reuters

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Smartwatch goes retro: smartwatch hack runs Windows 95

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If you ever feel like going back to the 90s, listen to grunge, and be amazed at just how many megabytes fit in a CD as opposed to a floppy disk, this hack is for you.

Who needs Android OS when you can straight up run classic Windows 95 on your smartwear and gadgets? Although not useful at all unless you want to run some classic games like Wing Commander or Ultima 7, the fact that it’s possible to just cram an old OS from 20 years ago in a smartwatch is commendable. See how it works in the video below these lines.

Via The Verge

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LG G Flex Frame: bent phones are not an accident this time

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Where the iPhone 6 had issues with getting bent and cracked. the LG G Flex Frame might actually turn that into its strength. This time, the phones are supposed to be curved.

Whether or not a product will come out of this remains to be seen, but the fact is that LG has filed patents for three new model names: LG G Flex Frame, the G Frame, and F Frame. Considering LG already has a curved display smartphone on the market, the LG G Flex, media is buzzing, calling this a successor or a product in the same vein. Maybe a new family of smartphones will come out of this? They already seem to be sharing the “frame” denomination.

We had heard before that we would see an LG G Flex 2, a phone with a smaller screen which could actually be one of these, likely the G Flex Frame. The other two, though, the G Frame and F Frame have us asking questions without any certainties.

Via Ubergizmo

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Back to the Future 2 style shoes with LEDs

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Back to the Future 2′s most iconic scenes took place in the future, which in theory should be next year! Is the technology we have now as good as in the movie? Well, sort of!

A couple years ago Nike had created their own version of the Back to the Future 2 shoes that Marty McFly wears in the classic movies. Well, this is not the exact same thing, but a pretty good replica at a fraction of the price!

This is a creation by Halloween Costumes, a pair of shoes with rechargeable LEDs that cost less than $100 USD. If there’s any justice in the world, they should be pretty popular this year come Halloween.

So now you have an idea for Halloween. How hard could it be to get the rest of the costume anyways? And, best of all, you’ve saved almost $10.000 USD.

Via Nerdgasmo

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Amazon insists on wearables, more gadgets incoming

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We’ve seen Amazon release their first few gadgets as of late, and it seems that was just the beginning: they claim we ought to expect way more. Are they here to stay?

Amazon are still attempting to expand beyond merely delivering all of your favorite products around the world by expanding their hardware business. According to the latest reports? By creating top of the line Internet-connected household products and wearables.

Amazon plans to increase their number of employees by 27% at Lab126, Amazon’s hardware division out in Silicon Valley. For reference, these are the same guys behind the Kindle and Fire tablets & phones. The state of California would even collaborate via tax breaks saving the company $1.2 million in tax breaks, which would all go to creating more jobs.

The gadgets planned include a Wi-Fi device that would allow households to order stuff needed around the house with just one button. The rest would be wearables. Amazon seems bent on taking Google and Apple head on despite the lackluster performance of the Fire phone in the market so far.

Via Mashable

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Zuta Pocket Printer, the mobile robot printing machine

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It would seem that everyone prefers digital copies of each and every document nowadays, as printers just weren’t handy. That is, up until now.

The one device that hasn’t changed all that much ever since the mobile revolution is the printer: albeit smaller, they’re still bulky, awkward, take a lot of space, and for some reason they seem always more inconvenience than they’re worth. Acknowledging all of these issues is that the team behind the Zuta Pocket Printer decided to launch a Kickstarter campaign (which was very successful and has already been funded) to realize their vision: a small, portable printer.

The idea was simple: getting rid of the entire printer, and keeping only the useful parts, IE, the head, and using wheels to allow it to travel around on its own. By simply laying the paper down, the Zuta will run over it printing our documents in good quality, and fitting in our pockets afterwards. But do not take our word, and see the creators themselves demonstrating the technology just below these lines. Basically? It’s a robot that runs around and prints at your command, from PCs, laptops, mobile devices or anything.

While the Zuta Pocket Printer isn’t out yet, it’s already been crowd funded, and should be underways soon.

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