Eric Migicovsky, the creator of the original Pebble watch who’s also resurrecting the wearable, shared a picture of the upcoming Core 2 Duo smartwatch’s USB-C charging dongle on X, as spotted by 9to5Google.
Designed by Nomad, the charger’s magnetic design looks similar to the one it created for the original Pebble watches eight years ago, complete with a USB-C port instead of a permanently attached cable so you can connect your own.
Serene Industries is following up on its massive wedge-shaped Icebreaker keyboard with a smaller, lighter alternative called the Cleaver. Available for preorder now for $850 it’s also cheaper, but by no means cheap.
Machined from a single block of aluminum, the Cleaver features Hall effect switches and swappable aluminum keycaps perforated with holes to allow LED backlighting to shine through. It’s USB-C only, and available with Windows or Mac layouts and clear or black anodized finishes.
First released alongside 8BitDo’s Retro 87 Mechanical Keyboard - Xbox Edition last November with a matching transparent green shell, the Retro R8 Mouse is now available in an N Edition with colors inspired by the NES.
Functionally it’s the same as the Xbox version with an included charging dock, four programmable side buttons, and Bluetooth, 2.4GHz and USB connectivity. It also uses Kailh Sword GM X Micro Switches for its primary buttons, and a PAW 3395 optical sensor.
Happy Fire Emblem Tuesday! To celebrate, Nintendo has added the GBA’s Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones to the Switch Online Expansion Pack’s catalog. And over on the Nintendo Music app, the sprawling soundtrack to the Switch’s Fire Emblem Engage is now available, but it’s a long one. There’s a total of 182 tracks which will take you 7 hours and 24 minutes to listen to.
The internet has lots of videos walking you through the process of restoring and upgrading an original Game Boy. Elliot Coll, of YouTube’s The Retro Future channel, instead dives deep into the process of restoring an original Game Boy demo kiosk used to promote the handheld in stores.
The kiosks only work with a custom version of the Game Boy that are just as rare, but Coll already had one in their personal collection.
