Friday, April 19, 2013 - 2:37pm
China is currently the epicenter for manufacturing our favorite devices, so it only makes sense that what might be the cheapest phone in the world would eventually surface in the country.
portable stories
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - 6:45am
I love Rube Goldberg machines. Each one is a uniquely glorious ode to futility, lost time and gadgets. Lots of gadgets. So how do you improve a Rube Goldberg? Miniaturize it and make it portable.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010 - 11:57am
It's fitting that the news comes during National Breast Cancer Awareness Month — welcome, too — as a professor at the University of Manchester in the U.K. has developed a breast cancer scanner the size of a lunchbox.
Friday, September 3, 2010 - 3:39pm
Those cloak and dagger guys at DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), are looking for someone with the skills required to build them some portable atomic clocks.
Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 5:13am
The Crosley CR6002A portable record player, AKA the Revolution, is a little confusing at first. Portable records? The idea of walking around with it while scratching some vinyl doesn't really jive — with an unprotected record to boot — but...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 7:30am
Nostalgia is a powerful thing. How else could you explain why someone would take an old Sega Saturn and turn it into this boxy, "portable" monstrosity you see above? I mean sure, I guess it would be nice to be...
Friday, January 15, 2010 - 10:03am
True story: My friend and her 11-year-old daughter were browsing stoop sales (like garage sales, but on building stoops) in Brooklyn when they happened upon some old vinyl albums. When my friend's little girl asked what they were she said...
Monday, October 12, 2009 - 8:01pm
Openmoko's WikiReader may not immediately make sense if you're always glued to a smartphone or a computer. Just put aside that thought for a moment and consider this: it's a barebones, offline version of Wikipedia — developed in cooperation with...
Thursday, September 17, 2009 - 10:21pm
This hot little number is an external Blu-Ray player for computers that Asus hopes to have on shelves later this month. What surprised us the most is the fact that the one and only connector you'll see along the sides...
- Arcade
- Game Boy Micro
- Gameboy
- GBA
- mame
- Neo Geo
- nes
- Pocket Retro Game Emulator
- portable
- ROMs
- Sega Genesis
- snes
- ThinkGeek
Monday, June 8, 2009 - 11:36am
We just showed you ThinkGeek's Pocket Retro Game Emulator, which was barely a week old. Today, the site is neck-deep in orders for the unit, and it's easy to understand why. ROM-enabled portables such as the PRGE are a siren...
