Juice Box

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JuiceBox (red, SD card adapter and 1GB card shown)

The Juice Box is a low-cost multimedia player made by toy manufacturer Mattel. The player features a 2.7 in (6.9 cm) screen with a native resolution of 240×160 px[1] and runs μClinux, a microcontroller version of the Linux kernel.[2] It was made and released in November 2004, and was discontinued in early 2005. It has 66 MHz ARM7TDMI architecture Samsung processor S3C44B0, 2 MBytes or 8 MBytes of RAM and 8MB of ROM. It was marketed as a portable media player for children (like its competitors VideoNow and Game Boy Advance Video).[3] The player only played a proprietary cartridge format. 4Kids Entertainment and Cartoon Network put some of their shows on cartridges. However, the small screen and poor quality (10 frames per second maximum) alienated most people.[4] Furthermore, the device entered a crowded market. Its rivals are the VideoNow and the Game Boy Advance, the GBA being the most potent. The difference is that GBA not only had TV shows (which can be played through Game Boy Advance Video cartridges), but could also play video games, as it was built for that. Thus many retail stores were left with a surplus of the device. Original retail price was about US$70.[5]

Shows included on Juice Box[edit]

Cartoon Network[3][edit]

  • Codename: Kids Next Door (Operation: BEACH / Operation: UNDERCOVER / Operation: FUTURE, Operation: FLAVOR / Operation: KISS)
  • Courage the Cowardly Dog (The Duck Brothers / Shirley the Medium / The Mask)
  • Dexter's Laboratory (Beard to be Feared / Quackor the Fowl / Ant Pants / Dexter's Lab: A Story / Coupon for Craziness / Better Off Wet, Dyno-Might / LABretto)
  • Ed, Edd & Eddy (Urban Ed / Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Ed / Ed or Tails / Boys Will Be Eds, Brother Can You Spare an Ed / The Day the Ed Stood Still)
  • Megas XLR (Test Drive / All I Wanted Was a Slushie)
  • The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy (Who Killed Who? / Tween Wolf / Daddy's Little Spider / Tricycle of Terror)
  • The Powerpuff Girls (Slave the Day / Los Dos Mojos / Bubble Vision / Bought and Scold)
  • Johnny Bravo (Jumbo Johnny / Bravo, James Bravo / The Sensitive Male / The Man Who Cried Clown / Johnny Real Good / Talky Tabitha)

4Kids[edit]

WWE[3][edit]

Documentaries[edit]

Music Videos[3][edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Juice Box instructions" (PDF). Retrieved 2007-11-14.
  2. ^ Dave Prochnow (2005). PSP Hacks, Mods, and Expansions. McGraw-Hill. p. 185. ISBN 9780071469081.
  3. ^ a b c d "Juice Box". Computerworld. Vol. 38 (49 ed.). 6 December 2004. p. 25.
  4. ^ Bathroom Readers' Institute (2011). Uncle John's Unsinkable Bathroom Reader. Portable Press. p. 473. ISBN 9781607104605.
  5. ^ "Matrix semiconductor 3D memory". Popular Science. December 2004. p. 76.