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Videophone Dick Tracy Would Love
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| 9.13.03
| Associated Press
Posted on 09/14/2003 10:49:35 AM PDT by freepatriot32
Edited on 06/29/2004 7:10:02 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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TOKYO -- Nintendo's Game Boy Advance hand-held machine will work as a videophone with an attachment that comes with a digital camera, earphone and microphone and is expected to go on sale in December only in Japan.
The Campho Advance from Kyoto-based Digital Act, which makes mobile and Internet equipment, slips into the top of the Game Boy Advance just like any video-game cassette.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; Japan; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: attachment; dick; earphones; gameboy; japan; love; nintendo; speakers; tracy; videophone; would
Videophone Dick Tracy Would Love
Nintendo's Game Boy Advance with a Campho Advance device attached, designed by Digital Act. The two companies collaborated to make it possible for the Game Boy to be used as a videophone. When connected to an analog telephone outlet, the display shows live video of the person on the other end of the line, who must also own both the Game Boy Advance and the Campho Advance.
Photo: AP Photo/Digital Act, HO
To: freepatriot32
All that wonderful technology, and they can't come up with a decent sci-fi movie. Go figure.
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posted on
09/14/2003 11:01:28 AM PDT
by
4mycountry
(You say I'm a brat like it's a bad thing.)
To: 4mycountry
they do just fine in sci-fi, so long as it is anime.
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posted on
09/14/2003 12:10:25 PM PDT
by
King Prout
(people hear and do not listen, see and do not observe, speak without thought, post and not edit)
To: freepatriot32
The new GBA SP has a flip-up screen that would obscure the camera. Doh!
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posted on
09/14/2003 1:13:48 PM PDT
by
eno_
(Freedom Lite - it's almost worth defending)
To: King Prout
I mean in terms of Godzilla, not Neon Genesis Evangelion. :)
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posted on
09/14/2003 2:40:30 PM PDT
by
4mycountry
(You say I'm a brat like it's a bad thing.)
To: freepatriot32
tooo cooool
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posted on
09/14/2003 4:49:22 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Drug prohibition laws help fund terrorism.)
To: 4mycountry
don't you diss my Man Gojira! :)
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posted on
09/15/2003 12:38:00 AM PDT
by
King Prout
(people hear and do not listen, see and do not observe, speak without thought, post and not edit)
To: freepatriot32
You'd get carpal tunnel trying to wear that monster on your wrist.
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posted on
09/15/2003 12:40:00 AM PDT
by
strela
("Piffle, dear, I don't have morals, just customs." Hilda Burroughs)
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