• Tech Gadgets Gaming This magazine plays Tetris - here’s how There’s a playable, paper-thin Tetris game on the cover. • There’s a playable, paper-thin Tetris game on the cover. • Link Share Gift Tetrishas been immortalized in a playable McDonald’splastic chicken nugget, a playablefake 7-Eleven Slurpee cup, and aplayable wristwatch. • But the most intriguing way to playTetrisyet is encased in paper. • Last year theTetris Company partnered with Red Bullfor a gaming tournament that culminated in the 150-meter-tall Dubai Frame landmark being turned into theworld’s largest playableTetrisinstallationusing over2,000 drones that functioned as pixels. • Although the timing was a coincidence, Red Bull also published a 180-page gaming edition of itsThe Red Bulletinlifestyle magazine around the same time as the event, with a limited number of copies wrapped in a less grandiose, but no less technically impressive, version of Alexey Pajitnov’s iconic puzzle game.
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- Red Bull Media House has released a playable Tetris game that fits inside a magazine cover, a first for the iconic puzzle. The “GamePop GP‑1 Playable Magazine System” was designed by Kevin Bates, who previously built ultra‑thin Tetris‑playing cards and handhelds. The system uses a custom 180‑LED matrix on a 0.1 mm flexible circuit, bonded between two paper sheets, and powered by a coin‑cell battery. The display is about 5 mm thick at its widest point, giving the impression of a paper‑thin handheld. The project follows Red Bull’s 2023 Tetris partnership, which included a 150‑meter‑tall drone installation, and showcases new low‑cost flexible electronics for portable gaming.
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