Eternal Electronics spent a while looking for a ClearTunes handheld before one finally reached the bench. Commissary sheets from the early 2010s listed it next to socks and typewriters, a small plastic game machine built for jails and prisons rather than a store shelf. ClearTunes already supplied those facilities with radios, alarm clocks, and flat televisions, every one of them sealed in a shell you can see straight through.
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra finished every quest in World of Warcraft’s orc starting area in 40 minutes and never died once. A level 1 orc walked out of the Valley of Trials and into Sen’jin Village with the full list checked off, and the model never looked at a single frame of the game. The run sits on a private server, driven by the open-source agent-wow client, and the whole job began as one line typed into Codex.
Joshua-1248 spent the late stretch of September pushing a public snapshot of GoldenEye 007 Plus, a fork of the fully decompiled Nintendo 64 source that can place James Bond on screen for an entire mission. Footage from Graslu00, shot on an Analogue 3D and confirmed to run on original hardware, walks Silo, Bunker I, and Surface I with the camera sitting behind Bond instead of inside his eyes.
AOC sells the 16T20, priced at $47.49 (was $70), as a 16-inch portable monitor, though the panel itself measures 15.6 inches on the diagonal. Resolution sits at 1920 by 1080, the panel type is IPS, and the refresh rate tops out at 60 Hz. AOC lists a 4 ms gray-to-gray response time, 178-degree viewing angles, a rated brightness of 250 nits, and a static contrast ratio of 1200:1. Color depth is 6-bit, which works out to 262,000 colors. Independent tests have come in a little short of the brightness claim, and the color range is narrower than a desktop monitor built for photo work. For email, documents, video calls, and a movie on a hotel desk, the panel holds up well enough that the low price starts to make sense.
Peter Knetter has spent years asking old machines to do a modern job. His series, YouTube in, treats a console or a dusty operating system as a whole production desk. A few days ago, he posted the one fans had been waiting on. ‘YouTube in Game Boy‘ documents his journey to make a YouTube video using only a Game Boy.