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Battery-Free Game Boy Powered by Force of Mashing Buttons – Futurism
Mash like your save file depends on it!
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A team of computer scientists have spent their year working on the worlds first battery-free Game Boy.
The device, CNET reports, is a faithful recreation of the 1989 Nintendo Game Boy, with one key difference: Instead of AA batteries, the handheld gaming system is powered entirely by tiny solar panels and the force of a heated gamer mashing the buttons. Just like the Game Boy was a breakthrough in mobile gaming, the scientists hope that they too can spark a revolution in battery-…
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