I’d say a battery with a crank so you can recharge it manually.
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Given that they’re no longer Teenage, and more Middle-age, the new apparatus is a rechargeable USBC insulated hot drinks flask with special mug that you can wrap your hands around on a cold day so your fingers can still press the tiny buttons on your TE devices. 
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OP-Z firmware gets updated a week before this announcement, coincidence? I wouldn’t know where to begin dissecting the FW.
I just hope this is NOT about the Playdate handheld game “thing”… but now that I mentioned it, that fishing picture is very suspicious:
It’s obvious, isn’t it?
it will be a climate neutral modified and renamed PO-33 with no place for batteries. Powered by a small solar panel which is replacing the LCD on the original PO-33. This will be named PO-39 “Lights Out!” and the collectors edition version will be named PO-139 “Greta Edition”.
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Yeah, except TE said it’s something that’s been under development for a while. Apparently Playdate has been developed only for a couple of years.
I hate to say the obvious, but couldn’t “a while” mean a couple of years?
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“our new (still secret) product started development almost six years ago.”
Yeah, and it would be kinda lame for TE to unveil a secret product that has already been announced, so it must be something else, I hope…
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It is important to note that the playdate is not a teenage engineering product. They have just been involved in parts of the hardware design.
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they also stated that the worldwide delivery starts one day after launch.
its friday
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My family and I are poised around the radiogram awaiting the official announcement.
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My first though was perhaps another PO modular unit, but that would not aline with the “six years in the making” statement earlier. (Also kind of sad it’s not an OP-Z module either)
There’s got to be some clever person who can work out what this is… I’m still in the dark on this one!
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According to my buddy this looks like something that will have two antennas (could be bluetooth or whatever) and two mechanical buttons on the left.
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ah. walkie talkie !
the play date also has two buttons and some un specified wireless system for content delivery. But Panic said TE developed the crank not the whole thing.
could there be a pixelated image sensor?