I've got a couple of Famiclones laying around somewhere. Bought them for $10 each or so, along with the controllers, generic 10,000-in-one cart (with 5 or so actual games) and a lightgun. Amusingly enough, it's styled as a first-gen PS2, if somewhat smaller and waaaaaaay lighter.

Anyway, great to see that they're making headway over in the states. I expect a lot of awesome+relatively simply mods to come. I suspect that the reason they're finally arriving in numbers in the US is that certain Famicom patents expired a little while ago, making Famiclones mostly legal. Take that with a grain of salt though, I'm not entierly certain of that factoid.

This looks pretty much like an upgraded version of the same CEREC scanners that are all the rage with high-end dentists these days. They've been available here in Saudi Arabia for a while now.

Basically, the dentist uses a little spray-can that covers your tooth in a chalky powder, then inserts the scanner in your mouth and takes pictures of the tooth from several angles. Then while you gargle and get the powder out of you mouth, an immaculately detailed 3D model of your tooth appears on a mobile workstation on wheels with an LCD and an oversize trackball that runs windows XP. He then connects lines and points all over the edges of the cavity, then he moves on to stage two where it renders the ceramic filling. He then alters its hight and size. After that, he wirelessly sends the parameters to a a ceramic-grinding lathe of sorts that grinds a bit of ceramic about the size of your thumb's upper joint down to the exact shape of the filling.

Pretty awesome, really. Though expensive both for the consumer and the dentist (As someone already mentioned, these cost $150,000 each)

...He destroyed an authentic Japanese version of Final Fantasy for this mod? That's a crime against gaming-kind.

It's not THAT big at all, if though they could've easily made it ore streamlined. I'd more than gladly "lug" that around if it meant several hours of increased battery life.

Of course, the dangers of 3rd party batteries is a whole other issue that might turn me off of it.

Yikes, who hit this one with the Ugly Lens? Seriously...

But hey, functionality over form, I guess.

...I want one. Like, now. I'm going to Abu Dhabi, wrap the sweet-arse prototype in a sheet or something to hide it and robonap it.

And Marwan, Tarex (Tareq?) while the effort is appreciated, give it a rest guys. I'm a Muslim, and I've been living in Saudi Arabia for the past couple of decades. I've learned that if you don't have a thick skin and a great sense of humor these days you WILL get burnt out pretty fast, and just end up appearing as a defensive, touchy zealot. Don't get offended so easily, every group in history has had to bare its own cross of stereotypes at one point or another. How it either abolishes said stereotypes, or does the worst possible course of action and AMPLIFY them, is the true test of whether it can or can't integrate into society.

Wonder if his side-kick would be called Mini Mii.

Pot. Kettle. Black.

;-; Didn't win in the others so far, even though I entered pretty much all of them.

Well, slimmer chance with this giveaway with 16000 other posts. But I still hope.

Yay or photo backups. Have a crapload of SD cards layng about.