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Andrew Liszewski

Andrew Liszewski

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    You’re running out of time to get Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete for $9.99.

    The new version of Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp -- free of in-app purchases -- debuted last December at $9.99 for a limited time.

    For those who have been dragging their feet on buying the new Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete for either iOS or Android, that limited time offer runs out before the end of this week. At 1AM ET on January 31st, the game will increase in price to $19.99.

    A screenshot of the Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete game in the Apple App Store.
    Starting early in the morning on January 31st, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete will double in price.
    Screenshot: Andrew Liszewski / The Verge
    Andrew Liszewski
    Andrew Liszewski
    Build your own macrodata refinement keyboard.

    The retrofuturistic computers used by Lumon employees in Severance are loosely based on the Data General Dasher terminals released in the late ‘70s. Signature Plastics, the same company responsible for the SA profile keycaps used on those terminals, is now selling a matching set of keycaps so you can upgrade your mechanical keyboard with Lumon aesthetics. The SA Macrodata Refinement set is available for preorder now for $197, and expected to ship in Q1 2025.

    <em>You’ll need to provide your own keyboard for Signature Plastics’ new SA Macrodata Refinement keycap set.</em>
    <em>The keycaps are made from double-shot ABS plastic.</em>
    <em>Signature Plastics also sells a matching <a href="https://spkeyboards.com/products/scary-numbers-macrodata-refinement">Scary Numbers</a> 32-inch wide desk mat for $29.</em>
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    You’ll need to provide your own keyboard for Signature Plastics’ new SA Macrodata Refinement keycap set.
    Image: Signature Plastics
    Andrew Liszewski
    Andrew Liszewski
    JerryRigEverything’s Kindle Colorsoft teardown reveals how its E Ink screen works.

    Amazon’s first Kindle with a color screen has been dismantled, slashed, hacked, and scratched by JerryRigEverything who found that you may want to get a case to protect the plastic top layer of the Colorsoft’s screen.

    Using a USB microscope, the teardown also reveals how its E Ink screen actually works, producing color using black and white pigments that block or boost tinted pixels on an extra color filter layer.

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    Andrew Liszewski
    Andrew Liszewski
    Andrew Liszewski
    From Steam Deck to Steam Brick.

    To make the Steam Deck even more portable, modder Crastinator-pro stripped the handheld down to the bare essentials needed to play games while connected to a TV or pair of AR glasses.

    The smaller and lighter Steam Brick says goodbye to the Steam Deck’s screen, controls, and battery and stuffs the remaining electronics into a custom 3D-printed housing featuring just a USB port and a power button.

    The custom Steam Brick console next to all the parts of the Steam Deck that had to be stripped away to make it.
    The Steam Brick makes the Steam Deck an even more portable console by stripping away its built-in controls and screen.
    Image: Crastinator-pro / GitHub
    Andrew Liszewski
    Andrew Liszewski
    Bandai’s new Star Wars Tamagotchi makes you responsible for raising Vader.

    Following Grogu and R2-D2 versions, Bandai’s latest Star Wars collaboration turns Anakin Skywalker into a digital pet. But no matter how you choose to raise him with regular feedings and even lightsaber training, the Tamagotchi version of Anakin is always destined for the dark side and will inevitably grow into one of ten different versions of Darth Vader.

    The Bandai Darth Vader Tamagotchi inside its Vader helmet protective silicone case.
    The Bandai Darth Vader Tamagotchi showing a pixelated cartoonish version of Darth Vader on screen.
    The front and back of the Bandai Darth Vader Tamagotchi’s packaging.
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    Bandai’s new Star Wars Darth Vader Tamagotchi will be available in March 2025 for $30, and will include a protective silicone case shaped like Vader’s helmet.
    Image: Bandai