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Campho Advance: Game Boy Videoconferencing

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Although it was announced in September of last year, this “Campho Advance” module, as in ‘Camera Phone,’ for the Game Boy Advance is finally ready to hit the streets of Japan. It’s not much more than a hack, with an 0.11-megapixel camera and only 5 frames per second sent over the phone line, but it will allow expensive, if fun videoconferencing using a regular old GameBoy (SP or plain Advance — the image flips depending on how you put the cartridge in). Sadly, there’s not much chance this $175 will grace our shores, but really, for the price, would you want it to?

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