More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Nintendo released the Game Boy Camera in 1998 and discontinued it only four years later. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy . Both amateur and professional astronomers have captured incredible photos of Jupiter from Earth over the years, while space probes like NASA's Juno have actually glimpsed the gas giant up close.

Released in 1998, the Game Boy camera was perhaps the first digital camera many young hackers got their hands on. Around the time Sony Mavica cameras were shoving VGA resolution pictures onto floppy drives, the Game Boy camera was snapping 256 224 resolution pictures and displaying them on a 190 144 resolution display. The picture quality was terrible, but [Roland Meertens] recently had an idea. Why not use neural networks to turn these Game Boy Camera pictures into photorealistic images? Neural networks, deep learning, machine learning, or whatever other buzzwords we're using require training data.