{"id":177464,"date":"2024-01-01T07:52:48","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T07:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=177464"},"modified":"2024-03-17T18:02:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T18:02:15","slug":"retro-watch-a-watch-that-turns-into-a-game-boy-style-gaming-console","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/gaming\/retro-watch-a-watch-that-turns-into-a-game-boy-style-gaming-console\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Watch: A watch that turns into a Game Boy-style gaming console"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>What it Retro Watch<\/h3>\n<p>This is a wristwatch with an unusual design that, when unfolded, turns into a kind of Game Boy analogue.\u00a0The game console allows you to play 8- and 16-bit games.<\/p>\n<div id=\"g1-fluid-wrapper-counter-1\" class=\"g1-fluid-wrapper \" style=\"width:662px;\" data-g1-fluid-width=\"662\" data-g1-fluid-height=\"372\">\n<div class=\"g1-fluid-wrapper-inner\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.19335347432%;\">\n\t       <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Retro Watch Commercial\" width=\"496\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VGb1d20KELs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\t       <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Retro Gaming Watch is equipped with two displays: a small external one for displaying the time and an internal LCD with a diagonal of 1.54 inches, a resolution of 320&#215;320 pixels and an image refresh rate of 60 Hz.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_177467\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-177467\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-177467\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Retro-Gaming-Watch-looks-pretty-awesome.jpg\" alt=\"Retro Gaming Watch looks pretty awesome\" width=\"840\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Retro-Gaming-Watch-looks-pretty-awesome.jpg 840w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Retro-Gaming-Watch-looks-pretty-awesome-800x800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Retro-Gaming-Watch-looks-pretty-awesome-420x420.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Retro-Gaming-Watch-looks-pretty-awesome-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Retro-Gaming-Watch-looks-pretty-awesome-80x80.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-177467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retro Gaming Watch looks pretty awesome<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The gadget also received a Renesas\/Dialog DA14706 chip with a 160 MHz application processor and two ARM Cortex-MD processors for sensors and Bluetooth.\u00a0In addition, there is 1.5 MB of RAM, 8 MB of external QSPI RAM and a battery that provides up to 2 days of battery life in smartwatch mode or several hours of gaming.<\/p>\n<p>The Retro Gaming Watch can be ordered on Kickstarter for $159.\u00a0But keep in mind that deliveries are only scheduled for November 2024.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_177466\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-177466\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-177466\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Retro-Gaming-Watch.jpg\" alt=\"Retro Gaming Watch\" width=\"840\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Retro-Gaming-Watch.jpg 840w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Retro-Gaming-Watch-800x400.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Retro-Gaming-Watch-420x210.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Retro-Gaming-Watch-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-177466\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retro Gaming Watch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Source:\u00a0Kickstarter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kickstarter platform continues to raise funds for an interesting gadget called Retro Watch. <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/gaming\/retro-watch-a-watch-that-turns-into-a-game-boy-style-gaming-console\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":177468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[777],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-177464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gaming","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}