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Twenty Years Later, Let’s Remember The Virtual Boy, The Failure That Saved...
Nintendo Twenty years ago today, Japan saw the first low-budget consumer VR system, Nintendo’s Virtual Boy. A year later, Nintendo would quietly discontinue the system. Along the way, it equally...
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Two Years Later, Gearbox Is Still Defending ‘Aliens: Colonial Marines’
Gearbox/Sega Making a bad game is usually death for a game developer. If it doesn’t destroy the company, most will either quietly pretend such a disaster never happened, or make into the butt of a joke...
View ArticleWatch The Patriots Create A Hilarious Fan Stampede To Open Training Camp
In non-Deflatgate Patriots news, their training camp officially opened for business on Thursday morning at 9:15 a.m. And, instead of allowing fans to funnel in through a turnstile one at a time, New...
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Hackers Can Now Control Computerized Sniper Rifles
TrackingPoint TrackingPoint will be familiar to anybody following weapons research. The company sells rifles that lets you bullseye the target, every time, thanks to complex software in its scope....
View ArticleJoerg Sprave Made A Catapult That Fires Tomahawks
Subscribe to UPROXX If you haven’t met Joerg Sprave, he’s a German engineer who builds slingshots to shoot, well, anything. Spears, Christmas trees, machetes, other slingshots that fire other...
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This Guy Attached A Parachute To His Skin And Jumped Off A Cliff
Subscribe to UPROXX To you and I, traditional BASE jumping probably seems crazy enough as is. This is because you and I are well-adjusted adults who understand throwing yourself off a cliff or tall...
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Watch This Real Genius Accidentally Set Fire To Herself While Sitting On The...
United Artists Courtesy flushes are all well and good, but sometimes they’re not enough. That’s when you bring out the big guns: matches. But while matches are helpful in making sure no one knows...
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This MMA Fighter Won A Championship While Three Months Pregnant
Instagram WWE fans may know the story of Paige’s mother wrestling a match while pregnant with her, but this story ups the ante on pregnant athletes competing. Brazilian MMA fighter Kinberly Novaes not...
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A Nurse Details The Time A Female Patient Got A Toy Dinosaur Stuck Inside Her...
Pixar A nurse anonymously submitted a story to the Guardian‘s healthcare blog, recounting the time when they were working at a sexual health clinic as a student nurse. In a brief, but entertaining...
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A Former NHL Star Was Insanely Drunk While Driving His Son To A Youth Game
Getty Image Former NHL defensemen and current Minnesota Wild assistant coach Darryl Sydor was arrested on Thursday night for suspicion of drunk driving, which is bad enough as it is. Somehow, though,...
View ArticleA Pregnant Woman Is Using A Dolphin As A Midwife For A British Documentary...
Subscribe to UPROXX Have you ever heard an idea so terrible that you wonder if the person having it is friendless? The idea is so bad that SURELY someone who loved them would have taken them aside and...
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This New ‘Yelp For People’ App Is A Pandora’s Box The World Does Not Need
Shutterstock Two women, Nicole McCullough and Julia Cordray, are developing an app called “Peeple,” which purports to be “Yelp for people,” or “Yelp meets LinkedIn.” The app, which will supposedly be...
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Peeple Gives Us A Glimpse Into The Dark, Ugly Side Of The Tech Industry
Shutterstock Peeple debuted yesterday to the universal and logical scorn of the Internet. And it deserves every bit of that scorn, but we’re missing the larger problems it represents. If you’re...
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Finish Don Chingon’s Burrito And You’ll Get 10 Percent Of The Restaurant....
Via Don Chingon The rules are simple: pay $150, eat a burrito within an hour, own 10 percent of the restaurant. The restaurant team at Don Chingon, a Park Slope Brooklyn taqueria, told Food and Wine,...
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Russia Is Threatening To Shut Down The Entire Internet
Getty Image The internet is a crucial piece of infrastructure, but most international connections rely on a surprisingly small number of submarine cables. And Russia, being the insecure frat bro of all...
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