Today’s find is my Ouya game console. I was going to say “original” Ouya, but since there never was more than one iteration of it, that would be kind of pointless. I got this by being a Kickstarter backer in 2012, adding it to my chain of technologies that I adopted shortly before they shut down, were discontinued or never really got off the ground. The Ouya spoke to two ideas that I love in technology: open source tech and tiny tech. I loved netbooks when they first showed up, prompting me to use Linux for the first time.

Problem is, the Ouya wasn’t much fun to use. And the best game on it was multiplayer. So mine never saw much use. And after the support market shut down, the Ouya became a punchline.