This Battery-Free Game Boy Is the First Step Toward Ensuring Gaming Doesn’t Wreck the Planet – Gizmodo Australia

The eternal struggle with the original Game Boy was having a cache of batteries on hand. Handheld consoles have evolved since then, but the battery problem still exists. However, researchers from Northwestern University and the Delft University of Technology have created a proof-of-concept Game Boy that doesnt require batteries at all. Instead, it harvests energy from the sun and button-mashing.
Technically, the device isnt a one-to-one clone of the Game Boy, even though it looks an awful lot l…

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