A crate containing 100 factory-sealed Virtual Boy consoles has been discovered in a warehouse in Dubai driving collector interest in the maligned Nintendo system, reports UAE's The National Newspaper.
"This product was just left years ago and nobody knew it was in stock," said Geekay Games purchasing manager Vijay Chandrabota. "For me, it was dead stock. I didn’t even know that this Virtual Boy existed until we found it."
Despite the utter failure of the console due to a dearth of games and a tendency to cause migraine headaches in users, the Virtual Boy has become a prized collectors item.
With fewer than 800,000 units shipped worldwide during its lifespan, a find such as the one made in Dubai no doubt has console collectors salivating like Pavlov's eponymous dogs.
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If you had to take a guess where the greenest city in the world is going to be by 2009--and yes, I am talking green as in "zero carbon", "zero waste", "car free "city--where would you guess it would be?
A particularly optimistic design firm in Dubai called Timelinks has proposed designs for the Ziggurat, a complete city to be layered inside of a massive pyramid that could serve as home for a million people at a time. Timelinks is currently seeking patents for a variety of technologies that would make such a building possible, including a three axis public transportation system that would run residents up, through and across the pyramid. They've also claimed that with a hybrid wind, solar and steam power the Ziggurat would be able to meet its own power needs, and that there would be enough room to allow for some minor agriculture in designated "green spaces."
