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Exercise Your Wrist, Power Your GBA?

Posted by simoniker on from the we're-really-turning-japanese dept.

The Hong Kong-based videogame store Lik Sang, whose (now unrelated?) company of the same name have been clashing with Nintendo over Gameboy 'backup devices' recently, have showcased another very cool Asian game-related gadget on their site, the SP Mini Winding Charger Handle. According to the manufacturer, "By winding handle to power the [Gameboy Advance] SP console, winding the handle for 8 minutes can play the game for 15 minutes, no need the battery. Human Power!" So you can rotate the miniature handle to power your GBA in handheld-related emergencies, and we refuse to make any obvious jokes at this time.

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  1. Re:excellent! by GigsVT · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why, entire neighborhoods, nay, entire CITIES will be demanding a share of the MEGAWATT output created when palm meets shaft in an orgy of solo-sex extacsy.

    You joke, but one of those Joy of Sex type books refers to a story about sweatshop girls back before electric sewing placing one heel against their vagina and the rhythmical pumping of the sewing machine pedal with the other leg would get them off, while they were sewing.

    Don't know if it's true, but an interesting anecdote in any case.

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  2. Re:I need to buy these for my kids... by Jouni · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Combine this with Kojima-san's upcoming curiosity Boktai, a vampire hunting game that requires sunlight to power up weapons, and you've got your kids sorted. :-)

    If they keep this up, in a few years time games could well have even overweight couch potatoes running for their lives. :-)

    Jouni

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