Arquivos de Tag: Color

Fujifilm Instax Square 2 Rounds Out Instant Photography With Built In Color Mood Switches

Fujifilm’s latest square-format instant camera arrives with a noticeably softer outline than the boxy model that preceded it. The Instax Square 2’s body measures 139 by 119.5 by 71 millimeters and weighs 450 grams empty, shaped from smooth plastic that curves around the edges rather than meeting them at sharp angles. Vertical texture lines run […]

SEGA Game Gear Turns 36 With a Color Screen That Drank Batteries

SEGA shipped its first handheld in Japan on October 6, 1990, priced at ¥19,800 ($320 today) and built under the internal name Project Mercury. Hayao Nakayama had pushed the company to answer the Game Boy, which Nintendo had put on shelves the year before. Engineers reused the Master System’s Zilog Z80 running at about 3.5 […]

Zac Builds Rebuilds the Game Boy Color With OLED Glass and USB-C

Zac Builds wanted a Game Boy Color that still looked like the 1998 handheld and behaved like something you would actually carry in 2026. His latest project walks through that job on a working donor board, the one part he treats as non-negotiable. Almost everything else can come from current reproduction kits, so a battered […]

JBL Live Buds 3 Boasts a Color Screen on the Case So You Can Leave the Phone in Your Pocket

Most charging cases only hold a charge and a pair of buds. JBL Live Buds 3, priced at $129.95 (was $200), add a 1.45-inch color touchscreen that turns the case into a control panel you can use with a laptop, tablet, TV, or phone without opening an app. Swipe to play, pause, or skip, raise […]

Ten Feet Tall and Still Playing, NickBuilds’ Working Giant Game Boy Color

Nick Alvarez, the electrical engineer and maker who posts as NickBuilds and Nickbuildstuff, decided a regular Game Boy Color was too small for what he had in mind. He built one that stands ten feet tall and still accepts button presses, volume twists, and game input the way the 1998 original did. Alvarez didn’t actually […]

Hisense A10 Might be First Smartphone That Carries a Detachable Color Screen

Every phone forces a daily choice between screens optimized for different tasks. Standard color displays handle photos, video, and apps with ease but can strain eyes during long reading sessions and consume more power. E Ink panels reverse those strengths and weaknesses. They deliver paper-like text that stays readable in bright sunlight and sip battery […]