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Andrew Liszewski is a Senior Reporter for The Verge covering consumer technology with a focus on gadgets and electronics. He's been covering tech since 2011 including previous roles at Gizmodo and The Messenger. When he's not staying on top of the latest and greatest tech, Andrew's hobbies include photography but most of his rare moments of free time are spent re-playing the classic retro games of his youth and adding to an ever-growing collection of handheld gaming systems.
Developer Joshua Barretto is doing the seemingly impossible by bringing Super Mario 64 — a 3D game designed for the 64-bit N64 — to the 32-bit GBA.
Simply porting the original game isn’t possible given the GBA’s hardware limitations, so Barretto’s version is being developed from scratch with a custom physics, collision, and 3D camera system that so far looks quite impressive.
We haven’t seen much of Boston Dynamics’ new all-electric version of Atlas since its debut back in April. But today the company shared another brief look at the highly articulated humanoid doing a quick round of pushups.
Boston Dynamics originally described the new Atlas as being able to “move in ways that exceed human capabilities.” Doing seven pushups already exceeds this human’s capabilities.
YouTube’s Computer Clan answers that question with a deep dive on the history of the pocketable camcorders that seemed to one day just disappear.
In 2009, Cisco bought Pure Digital Technologies, the company behind the Flip, but two years later abruptly shut down the product line as part of a restructuring. As for PDT’s founder, Jonathan Kaplan? He’s now the US ambassador to Singapore.
The M1X and M1S both feature a pivoting stand for projecting on a wall or ceiling that doubles as a lens protector when folded away for transport. The projectors also feature a four hour battery, Harman Kardon speakers, HDMI with a USB-A port for powering streaming sticks, and a USB-C video port that can be connected directly to the Switch or smartphones.
Both the winding crank and bezel surrounding the time-telling dials on Urwerk’s EMC SR-71 are made of a titanium alloy sourced from the fuselage of the spy plane.
The mechanical watch also features an optical sensor measuring the accuracy of its timekeeping and its precision can be manually adjusted. Just 10 are being made, and they’ll sell for over $175,000 each.
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