The $50 TinyTV 2 will let you channel surf on a one-inch screen

What is that this, a tv for ants? Principally sure! The TinyTV 2, a Kickstarter undertaking from the corporate that introduced us a good smaller Sport Boy, is without doubt one of the smallest and cutest video gamers I’ve ever seen. Whereas it doesn’t have a set of rabbit ears to harness the airwaves, the one-inch 216×135-pixel tv is genuine in virtually each different method — dials to regulate “channel” and quantity, a working speaker and energy button, even an infrared receiver for a tiny non-compulsory distant management (through Technabob).

There’s a two-hour lithium-ion battery so you’ll be able to take it on the go and a USB-C port for charging and knowledge. It’s all powered by a Raspberry Pi RP2040 pc. And — get this — it emulates the expertise of “altering channels” by remembering your timestamp in every of the video information you preload on its included 8GB micro SD card, so it could actually appear to be you’re browsing reside tv.

And since that’s clearly not sufficiently small, the corporate’s providing a TinyTV Mini as nicely, which shrinks down the concept right into a quantity of only one cubic inch. It’s received a 0.6-inch OLED display screen (as a substitute of IPS) at simply 64 x 64 pixels and a single hour of battery life.

Each are at the moment out there to again at Kickstarter for $50 every, and each include an app that’ll shrink your favourite video information right down to the suitable resolutions.

Examined’s Norman Chan has a fantastic video exhibiting off the unique Tiny TV alongside each of the brand new variations, and you’ll see how a lot clearer the TinyTV 2 appears and sounds.

Assuming the Kickstarter marketing campaign doesn’t run into any wrinkles — the Thumby appears to have gone nicely, transport over 10,000 items and now freely on sale — this could possibly be a better method to reside the tiny TV dream than rolling your personal mini Simpsons CRT. I simply funded it myself; I believe it’ll be a fantastic residence for anime music movies.

Listed here are a pair extra photos of the TinyTV Mini: