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A team of computer scientists have spent their year working on the world’s first battery-free Game Boy.<\/p>
The device, CNET <\/a><\/em>reports<\/a>, 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-free technology<\/a>.<\/p> Playing the device — called the Engage — isn’t quite up to the standard of an authentic Game Boy, even though it can play the classic console’s entire library of games. That’s because its very limited power necessitates a tiny screen, no speakers, and just a few seconds of life without constant button-mashing.<\/p> “We’re really making a huge leap towards useful and usable systems that are built upon this foundation of intermittent computing,” Delft University of Technology computer scientist Przemyslaw Pawelczak told CNET<\/em>.<\/p> Those limitations are by design, CNET <\/em>reports, and the team found a way to make the console autosave your progress at the exact moment before it dies. Press a few buttons and the game springs back to life at the exact moment you left it. That’s great for games like Tetris, but more of a disruption for games like the Pokémon series<\/a> that don’t require button mashing.<\/p> What remains to be seen, however, is how the notoriously-litigious Nintendo<\/a> will react after the team presents the Engage at a research conference next week.<\/p> READ MORE: <\/strong>The first battery-free Game Boy wants to power a gaming revolution<\/a> [CNET<\/em>]<\/p> More on gaming:<\/strong> Putting Pokémon On The Blockchain Takes Microtransactions To Their Inevitable, Insufferable End<\/a><\/em><\/p> The post Battery-Free Game Boy Powered by Force of Mashing Buttons<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> Originally posted here: Button Masher A team of computer scientists have spent their year working on the world\u2019s 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. Continue reading Gamer Fuel<\/h2>
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