Surprise: The BrickBoy kit for the Lego Game Boy uses floating magnets instead of switches

A prototype BrickBoy, successful my hands. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge

If you're 1 of the astir 3,500 Kickstarter backers paying to springiness your Lego Game Boy an existent surface and buttons, I person a question: did you expect those buttons to person carnal switches underneath?

Because the BrickBoy - not to beryllium confused with Natalie the Nerd's Build A Boy - is not presently going with carnal clicks. Instead, it glues uncommon world magnets wrong Lego bricks, for what volition hopefully beryllium a magical experience.

This came arsenic a astonishment to me, due to the fact that the BrickBoy Kickstarter, ending successful 3 days, hardly mentions magnets astatine all. Every 1 of the startup's promo representation shows domed switches underneath the buttons, and prima …

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