I've ben very excited about the Playdate since it was announced. The company behind it is one of my favorite software companies, Panic, which makes a bunch of well-known Mac apps that I use fairly often and generally find well designed; they recently got into game publishing too and published Firewatch and Untitled Goose Game. The hardware was designed by one of my favorite small hardware companies, Teenage Engineering, which makes all kinds of weird and interesting audio stuff.

I have no idea how these two companies got together to make something like this, and it's definitely a bit of a departure for both of them, but I hope it works out well! I think modern tech could do with a bit more occasional weird totally-out-of-left-field small cool projects like this one.