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I personally love weird single-purpose hardware. Unfortunately it tends not to do very well commercially. Anybody remember this guy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiReader
If we're talking single-purpose gaming devices that failed, there's always the Gizmondo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gizmondo I don't think Panic is involved in organized crime, though.
Design wise this looks similar to something teenage engineering would make. Which I think is cool, I like their stuff. Specifically the op1 with the hand crank functionality
I like the crank idea only if it also charges the battery as you play.
Have you ever tried a hand-cranked radio or torch? They need a lot of cranking. I'm not sure it would be tractable.
Slightly off-topic, but the website design looks like a worse version of Teenage Engineering website ( https://teenage.engineering/products/po ) with larger font size (a bit too large imo). Not dissing the website though, it isn't that bad overall, just thought it was interesting, since I haven't seen many others attempting that. EDIT: after a closer look at the page, I realized that they explicitly mentioned partner…
I like the visual style.
I think it's cool. I'm not that old, but games these days mostly seem to be about squeezing every last dollar out of the consumer through shady means. I think this is part of why I don't play video games anymore. It's nice to see something different.
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Have you ever tried a hand-cranked radio or torch? They need a lot of cranking. I'm not sure it would be tractable.
That's because they all crank so easily. Surely if they used gears and required more force to convert from few rotations to many it would be better?