Why? When a person presses or releases the button, the magnet moves through a wire coil. The team placed a small magnet under each button. Those panels turn energy from sunlight into electricity.īut that’s not all. Hester and his team then put solar panels on the front to power the device. As a result, it can read the instructions from original Game Boy cartridges. Here, it runs a computer program that pretends to be a Game Boy. That’s an itty-bitty computer chip that controls the actions of this device. So, Northwestern computer engineer and longtime gamer Josiah Hester and his team revamped the Game Boy from scratch.Īt the heart of the new device is a small, low-power microcontroller. The original’s hardware gobbled so much power that it could not easily go battery-free. Researchers hope their version will have a greater impact. Kids and adults were able to play Tetris, Super Mario Bros.
The original revolutionized the gaming world when it went on sale in 1989.
To that end, they reimagined the Game Boy. Researchers at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., and Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have been looking for a way to reduce the electronic waste that handheld games and other mobile devices create. Instead of batteries, the new device gets its power from the sun and the mashing of its keys. But scientists in the United States and the Netherlands have given the old-time handheld game console a modern twist.
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