Here’s what happens when you combine a Nintendo Switch and a Kindle

TL;DR The Figment is a gaming handheld prototype with a 7.5-inch E-Ink display. It’s just a concept for now, with a body made from 3D-printed and laser-cut parts. It plays choose-your-own-adventure-style games that use AI to fill in the gaps. AMOLED displays are all the rage on the latest Android retro gaming handhelds, but a new design uses something far more efficient: E-Ink. The Figment is a new conceptual design that combines a Nintendo Switch-like form factor with an E-Reader display to create the perfect device for choose-your-own-adventure-style games. Coming from the mind of tinkerer Pedro Porras Luraschi, it features a 7.5-inch E-Ink display, with four buttons serving as a D-pad and three face buttons on the other side. The body is a combination of 3D-printed and laser-cut parts, and an ESP32 microcontroller powers the whole thing. It won’t run any modern emulators, instead using a mix of pre-written adventure stories and AI to create text-based gameplay. The game engine ... Read full article.