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Is the Game Boy the Toughest Product Ever Made?

Posted by kdawson on from the electronic-cockroaches dept.

An anonymous reader writes "CNET is running an article about tough technology, which aptly includes the Nintendo Game Boy, a device so tough that mine still works after many years. 'There's no two ways about it: the original Game Boy is one of the hardest gadgets ever conceived. Rumor has it this beige behemoth isn't made of plastic, but from the skulls of fallen Gurkhas. If you ever saw one that was broken, it's because it lost a boxing match with a nuclear bomb — on points.' So do you agree that the Game Boy is the toughest consumer electronics device ever made?"

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  1. slow news day by nuzak · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Posting idle brainfarts is just a product of boredom, but this making it onto the front page? I mean come on, seriously. I have to go invent a Remote Dumbass-Thwack Protocol for the originators of this one.

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  2. Re:Phones (back when the phone company owned them) by SharpFang · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    per your sig: http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl ...and everyone can see the articles in the future, much earlier than the subscribers and without editor bias censorship.

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  3. How do I sell useless crap on ebay? by a!b!c! · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Q. How do I sell all this junk that I haven't lost after moving 3 times?

    A. Write a BS article about all the items that glorifies each knick. And then post them on ebay.

    Is it just coincidence that a seller on ebay has all these items for sale at the same time?