Cleaning things! With lasers!

via Kaj Sotala

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> A recently-surfaced 1980s brochure reveals that Nintendo nearly released a knitting add-on for the NES. Posted on the Facebook page of former Nintendo employee Howard Phillips, the brochure shows off the Nintendo Knitting Machine, a device that would have connected to the NES and allowed players to create and print their own designs.

> “You're looking at the Nintendo Knitting Machine,” the ad reads. “It's not a game; not a toy; not something a young girl can outgrow in three or six months or even a year. It's a machine that interacts with the powerful Nintendo Entertainment System to actually knit sweaters: and not just one or two patterns but a multitude of different and unique designs.”

For breakfast, the world's oldest living person, Susannah Mushatt Jones "always eats four strips of bacon along with scrambled eggs and grits.[…] She also eats bacon throughout the day."

Susannah Mushatt Jones – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia