Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley 2009

http://esc-sv09.techinsightsevents.com/product_teardown

Product Teardown: Nintendo Virtual Boy
Wednesday, April 1, 12:30-1:30

At ESC Silicon Valley, Allan Yogasingam, technology analyst with TechOnline, will take a look inside this “portable” system and determine whether it was the design, the games, or the experience that led to its quick demise.

Last year’s ESC teardown:
http://www.eetimes.com/galleries/slideShow.jhtml?galleryID=11&imageID=1
http://news.cnet.com/Photos-Taking-apart-the-robot-guitar/2300-1041_3-6237472.html

whether it was the design

Yes.

the games

yes

or the experience

sometimes yes

And lets not forget the price.

But hey, I enjoy it 🙂

Either way, sounds like it’d be a heckuva lot of fun to attend.

Sweet… that is really cool! I wonder what the odds are of getting work to send me out there… well, hopefully they’ll have a recording of it online or something.

DogP

[dasi]

EE Times Japan Virtual Boy Tear Down 2009/06/15

http://eetimes.jp/article/23081

Looks interesting, can anybody translate?

• This reply was modified 14 years, 9 months ago by dasi.

the 2 reasons this system failed is the display and the way you view it. when your done playing you head hurts along with your body (from w/e way u were sitting or hunched over looking into it)

I only had a headache _once_ in my whole life because of it, and that was when I first played it. But I was sick and dehydrated.