Linus Tech Tips recently visited the ultimate gaming mansion, also known as the LAN Party House by Kenton Varda and Jade Wang. Located in Austin Texas, the house has 22 gaming PCs spread across multiple areas, with 12 in the basement, 6 in an upstairs office, and others in dedicated spaces like “call rooms.”
The rumors are true, Michael Bay is attached to direct a live-action film adaptation of OutRun for Universal Pictures, based on SEGA’s 1986 video game of the same name. Sydney Sweeney is also on board as a producer, alongside Bay and his Platinum Dunes partner Brad Fuller, with SEGA’s Toru Nakahara producing and Shuji Utsumi overseeing for SEGA.
Developer Ruben Retro’s GBS Windows is essentially a homebrew Game Boy Color application designed to emulate the look and feel of Microsoft Windows 3.1 on Nintendo’s handheld. It’s not a full operating system but a creative suite of mini-applications that capture the retro aesthetic of early 90s PCs.
The Panasonic FlashXpress toaster oven can evenly cook both sides of bread or bagels in a flash, without having to flip anything over, and it’s being offered for just $109.99 shipped, originally $169.99. It tackles the uneven cooking issue of traditional toasters primarily through its double infrared heating technology, which uses a combination of quartz and ceramic heating elements. Product page.
The Hubble Space Telescope’s newest image of Messier 72 (M72), shared for its 35th birthday celebration, is a beautiful look at a globular cluster in the Aquarius constellation, about 50,000 light-years from Earth.
Back in 1993, Bill Gates shared some cool ideas about the future of personal computers on the BBC’s Horizon show, as part of their exploration of the “Electronic Frontier.” The internet was brand new to most people then, with only about 130 websites in the whole world, and personal computers were still growing fast.
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Modder Pedro Luraschi showed off the world’s first E-ink game console, named Figment. It’s got a Waveshare 7.5″ E-ink screen made for playing old-school, text-based, or simple games. The device is being touted as a innovative project that uses E-ink’s low-power, eye-easy display for gaming without distractions, different from the fast-moving LCD or OLED screens found in modern handheld PCs.
