giant portable console. think atary lynx but much bigger ;)

[hey69]

Putting The 'Table' Back Into Portable

Arizona Newspaper the Tucson Citizen has the scoop on the latest contender in the portable console wars, only this time it’s bigger than the GameBoy or the PSP. No, not in terms of reputation or potential: physically bigger. It’s a monster.

The SL-Interphase ‘Rogue’, a handheld being developed by two Arizona residents (and Raytheon Missile Systems engineers, suggesting that perhaps creating a portable console really is rocket science), puts even Atari's fondly remembered Lynx handheld/blunt trauma weapon firmly in the shade. Boasting a massive 8.4-inch LCD screen and priced at $1,500 (£835), the device is essentially a tablet PC, but with a focus on gaming.

"We developed new hardware to help the CPU do its job," reports Dyster, SL-Interphase's vice president and still a Raytheon engineer in Tucson. "We've taken some of the more tedious tasks the processor has to do and it is handled by the new hardware so it (the CPU) has more available for playing the game."

The company still need $20m (£12m) to get the device onto (hefty) shelves across the world. Even if the capital is found, whether it will be able to stir up the sluggish tablet PC market is another matter.

http://www.edge-online.co.uk/

 

[Lumine]

What did you say they called it? The XboxPortable?

 

[GwymWeepa]

Pff, they should have made a tiny lap-top instead. Imagine a massive 8 inch LCD exposed to damage, it won't last terribly long.

 

[Farid]

Old news.

 

[hey69]

OMG please somebody burn this!

 

[OICAspork]

OMG please somebody burn this!

It looks more like an etch-i-sketch than a game system.

 

[London Geezer]

AAAAAAHHHHHHH IT'S GONNA EAT US ALIVE!!!!!!

 

[Geeforcer]

It's no more portable then backpack with an Xbox, LCD TV, microgenerator and a gallon of gas.

 

[sunscar]

Three things come to mind here... they are as follows.

1.) Is the Xbox design team designing PDAs now?
2.) Is this their answer to the Ipod mini?
3.) That is a SWEET surfboard! Where can I get one?

Seriously though, I second the Etch-a-Sketch notion. Not even joking about that one. I had to double take. I knew I'd seen that shape before.

Thought this thread could use another laugh.

Everyone have a good night.

Later

Sunscar

 

[Jabjabs]

Are these the same two people who made Phantom?