Fujifilm just announced a new Instax camera and it takes the aesthetic for this line in a completely different direction. In fact, it looks like it has traveled back in time and that’s likely a good thing. The Fujifilm Instax mini 90 has a real retro feel that gives it a look akin to Polaroid, […]
Fujifilm is the torch bearer for retro camera design, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at the boring, blob-like bodies of its recent instant film cameras. The company is aiming for more consistency with its new Instax mini 90: the shooter matches its older photo format with the vintage (and far more stylish) look we’ve seen in Fujfilm’s X-series cameras. Not that the mini 90 is abandoning modern luxuries in the process, mind you. The new Instax more intelligently adjusts to shooting conditions, captures double exposures and brightens backgrounds in a party mode. Fujifilm ships the Instax mini 90 to analog photographers in Japan on September 20th, and should bring the camera to the US sometime next spring.
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Via: Cult of Mac
Source: Fujifilm (translated)
Did you know that instant film cameras are still being made? Fujifilm’s line of Instax cameras has been trying to weather the digital storm, and it’s now releasing a new Instax camera that has a whole lot more style.
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We’ve seen plenty of awesome NES casemods and portables over the years, but this example is 3D-printed. It is called the NESPo and was made by modder Dave Nunez. Dave used a Nintendo-on-a-chip (NOAC), because he didn’t want to destroy an original console. Anyway, there is practically nothing inside the box when you use a NOAC.
He purchased an NOAC for $15 in the form of the Retro-BIT RES, then opened it up to get the guts. A $20 4.3-inch TFT camera screen was also used, along with a NiMH rechargeable battery. The system gets around three hours of life on a charge.
The case and buttons are all 3D-printed. Dave designed the parts in OpenSCAD, then printed them out with polylactic acid using the Makerbot Replicator 2. The entire printing process took 14-and-a-half hours. After that, he simply put it all together. It looks pretty sweet, even if it is a bit chunky. You can check out more build details at Dave’s blog.
[via geek]
Here’s something you don’t see every day. Mike Tyson playing Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out on the NES. For the first time. Yeah, I’m not sure I believe that, but then again, it’s not like Mike can act, so it’s probably true.
Almost 26 years after the games original release, Mike has discovered it. He seems to have a lot of trouble at first figuring out how to work the controller and Glass Joe kicks his butt at first, but eventually manages to finally beat him.
You see kids… You’re never too old to play a game that you endorsed a quarter of a century ago and made tons of money off of.
[via Geekologie]
There are things in the world that should never happen. Game designer Ethan Levy’s "evil" Candy Crush-ized
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Artist/Nintendo fan/Sleep gamer Donna Marie Evans made her own Nintendo 64 controller pillow. It’s made of polar fleece and cotton and has embroidered letters and buttons. Now Donna can do a barrel roll in her sleep.
Donna said she might be able to sell copies of the pillow if she gets hold of more materials. Send her a note on her deviantART page if you want one. And while you’re there, ask her to make an N64 console bed!
[via Niko is Cartoons]
Check out this incredible piece of geekery I just found over on Etsy. This LEGO mosaic is loaded with so many classic Nintendo, Sega and arcade characters, I think my head might just explode. I dare you to try and identify them all.
It was made from a whopping 10,511 individual LEGO pieces, each affixed to a large grey LEGO baseplate. Since each baseplate measures 15″ x 15″ and there are 15 baseplates, that means this thing measures 75″ x 45″. Wow. That’s almost 24 square feet of gaming awesomeness.
Click the image below to see the full hi-res version of this incredible LEGO mosaic:
I can’t believe that the artist who created this simply posted it under an Etsy shop called “Mytemporaryshop.” How are we supposed to give him/her credit for this masterpiece? If it’s you, please step forward and be recognized as a god (or goddess) among geeks.
This one-of-a-kind work of art is available for appx. $4823 (USD) over on Etsy, and all profits from the sale of the piece will go to help fund its creator’s project to send her class to Africa next year.
Most of us do not even carry a single phone book around, simply because our smartphones these days already come with more than enough storage space to stash away the phone numbers of people we know, in addition to their other contact details such as address, work numbers, fax numbers, and the rest. Why not take a step back from the rat race, and take a look at the $19.99 Retro Phone Book? You can be just like how your grandparents used to be, with an old school phone list. All you need to do with the Retro Phone Book is to slide down to the corresponding letter, press the button, and you will see it pop open, revealing your current contact list that starts with that letter. It is sure to confound others with retro technology, especially those who were born in the late 1990s as well as early 2000s, who most probably grew up on a digital diet.
With the Retro Phone Book, you will be able to have your fair share of nostalgia with the others, just like how your memory of your grandfather’s phone book was. The small plastic letter selector will be able to magnify just like how its original inspiration always did, and the button works just as well. Heck, even the box of the Retro Phone Book itself resembles one that came out from the time when rotary phones ruled the roost. It comes with 19 pages to stash your information, with one of them singled out specially for instructions.
[ Retro Phone Book copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
Fashionably Geek reader Kevin Pacheco had Konami’s transcendent cheat code tattooed on his arm.
Apparently the images of the buttons and directional pads are the same size as the ones on the NES controller.
I wonder what kind of cheat codes we’ll have in the future, when games run on virtual reality headsets and gesture-based controllers.
[via Fashionably Geek]
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