From Wirebot: Looking for a MIDI synthesizer that will belt out tunes for your songs? Or just want to have one for fun? Then you should check out Kickstart’s latest campaign. Donate $50 and get a Chip Maestro, which is a NES cartridge that creates a MIDI synthesizer out of your old-school gaming console. More »

Windows Phone 7 has just received one its first emulators - the NES Emulator! For a new OS this has got to help in a way or two but Microsoft takes it differently and thus they have blocked it from the Marketplace. More »

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Nothing’s cooler than making things look like other (better looking) things, and that includes The Unconventional Hacker’s NES game cartridge made wireless router. More »

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The RetroN 3 Video Gaming System brings back the ’80s and ’90s, when console games were about pixelated fun, not unnecessary things like production values, good voice acting, and downloadable content. With the RetroN 3, players can dust off their SEGA Genesis, Super Nintendo, and NES cartridges for a blast to the past. More »

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Anything NES is popular with the gaming crowd, especially the entire generation that grew up with it. So it’s not surprising to see gamers appreciate the use of NES cartridges in this specific hard drive. Etsy sller 8-Bit Memory came up with this by simply popping a hole in the NES cartridge, put an external hard drive inside and then cuts another hole for a USB. And there you have it.

This specially made NES external hard rive sells at different prices depending on the memory. The standard is 250 GB which sells for $120. Etsy makes any size with any game at an extra charge. You can get yours here. More »

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Do you love Nintendo to the point where you’re ready to make it a fashion statement? Well, now you can be the coolest one at a conference with your NES controller, business card holder made by Banpresto Japan. More »

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The original NES controller has been getting a lot of love lately from iPhone cases to now, netbook covers. These cases are made entirely of felt but we wish they weren’t. Imagine having a giant NES controller, that would be awesome. We have some more pics of this glorious cover after the break. More »

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With a name that’s all too indicative of the economic crisis, Chinavasion’s handheld emulator is officially called the “Multi-platform handheld gaming entertainment station“, but as the description states, is often “lovingly called the Delightfully Small (DS)”.

True, true. And if the trend of modern electronics technologies stands firm here, More »

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Gamers aren’t exactly the neatest bunch of people but that’s not to say that they can’t be.

Like all fanatical gamers, someone has taken the obsession to the next level and created (/drumroll) Xbox controller shaped soap. It’s complete with full detail so you wouldn’t know the difference unless you were paying attention. Can you say April Fools joke? More »

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