Crave Ep. 134: Homemade portable NES pushes our buttons

We look at a homemade Nintendo Entertainment System, defend our personal space with a privacy-guarding bowtie, and learn the scientific formula for the perfect grilled cheese.

Stephen Beacham Senior Video Producer

Stephen Beacham is an award-winning video producer focusing on How-To videos and environmental tech news and sustainability. Stephen comes from an audio production background and began his career interning for rock legends, Green Day, during the production of their Grammy Award winning album 'American Idiot'. He began his online video career as an audio engineer for Gamespot.com which ultimately led him to CNET. Stephen has won 3 Telly Awards for CNET.com in the Green/Eco Friendly and How-To categories and he was nominated for 2 Webby Awards as a producer. Check out more of Stephen's video and podcast work here at CNET.com.

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Stephen Beacham

Aug. 23, 2013 5:00 p.m. PT

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This week on Crave, a Canadian dentist wants to clone John Lennon with a tooth he bought for $31,000. A computer scientist builds an awesome portable Nintendo Entertainment System. Plus, we all want to take a turn with the "beercade" machine, which serves up cold brews as you play vintage video games. All that and more on this week's episode of Crave.

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- In your face! Bowtie flashes when people get too close

- Eureka! A scientific formula for the perfect grilled cheese

- Kegerator fuses vintage video games with a beer keg

- Let it be: Dentist wants to clone John Lennon from tooth DNA

- Chewbacca's knees to get their own crowdfunded film

- Revisit the amazing Internet the cool kids used in 1997

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