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Nintendo has a history of dancing to the beat of its own drum, but with the long-speculated Switch (known as "Nintendo NX" by the rumor mill) now out in the open, it looks like the slow-to-adapt Japanese giant has finally learned some lessons from its previous gaffes. While we didn't get too much information from the three minute reveal trailer, so far the Switch looks like the console that may let Ninty do its quirky dance without tripping over its own feet.

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• Meet Switch: Nintendo’s new console mixes handheld and console gaming
• Nintendo's NES Classic Edition includes old-school filters, new save system
• Nintendo's next console will launch globally in March 2017
• What Nintendo's next-gen system needs to rival, maybe even surpass, the PS4 and Xbox One
• Why the Wii U still matters in 2015
• Nintendo at E3 2015: Star Fox, Mario Tennis and cooperative handheld gaming

Digital photo frames are pointless gadgets which stopped being relevant in 2007 and are now only useful as Christmas presents for grandparents, right? Well, that's what we thought until we were sent the Memento Smart Frame to try. Now we can't imagine the living room without one. Read on to see how the whopper of a 35-inch digital photo frame changed our opinion.

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• Reviews

• Review: The Custom SLR Dual Camera Strap has got your back
• Review: Hands-on with the Boomr bungee cord camera strap
• Review: Leica's quirky Q, the ultimate full-frame street shooter
• Hands-on: Pico time-lapse camera controller
• Review: On holiday with Canon’s Powershot G7X Mark II
• Review: Pentax K-3 II offers useful new features

We've seen world records awarded for a caravan and a Millennium Falcon built out of Lego, but this latest construction makes them both look small fry. The Institution of Civil Engineers has been awarded a Guinness World Record for a Lego replica of the UK's Severn Bridge measuring 31-m long and 3-m tall.

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• Engineering
• Lego
• Guinness
• Bridge

• New world record set for farthest hoverboard flight
• Grimsel claims top spot in EV acceleration wars by hitting 100 km/h in 1.513 seconds
• Souped-up mobility scooter rockets into the record books at 107 mph
• World's most efficient EV could cover 11,000 km on energy equivalent to 1L of gas
• Make mine a Guinness: The Shebeen is a tiny Irish pub on wheels
• Diamond-encrusted tires are world's most expensive

Having paid for a brand-new Macbook Pro with Retina Display, the thought of dropping and damaging it may well be enough to make you cry. There are many ways to protect a precious Apple laptop, from neoprene sleeves to military-grade boxes, but the team at Zenlet is hoping that its new all-in-one Lift and Go solution will prove a real crowd-pleaser.

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• 12-inch MacBook (2015) review: Lighter than Air, but at a cost
• Apple gives the MacBook Pro with Retina display lineup a speed bump
• What’s best for campus computing? Comparing laptops, tablets and 2-in-1s
• Updated 12-inch MacBook gets better processors, longer battery life – still just one lousy USB-C port
• Modbook Pro X turns a Retina MacBook into a convertible 2-in-1
• Review: 13-in MacBook Pro with Retina Display (2015)