Gaming: World's smallest console is the same size as a POSTAGE STAMP - but is fully functional - Daily Mail

The world's smallest handheld games console has been developed by US engineers and is about the size of a postage stamp, but plays just like a full-size device.

The 'Thumby' console from Ohio-based TinyCircuits comes with five retro games pre-installed, including tiny takes on classics like Tetris, Space Invaders and Snake.

The screen is an OLED display and a loop on the bottom-right corner of each tiny, Game Boy-like console allows it to be attached to a keychain just like a keyring.

The world's smallest handheld games console (pictured) — which is about the size of a postage stamp, but plays just like a full-size device — has been developed by US engineers.

The 'Thumby' console from Ohio-based TinyCircuits comes with five retro games pre-installed, including tiny takes on classics like Tetris , Space Invaders and Snake.

The console is being sold from £14 ($19) for a basic grey model (pictured), with other colours and additional accessories like linking cables also available at higher prices.

'My goal with Thumby was to make the smallest game console,' said Thumby's principal engineer, Ben Rose. .

'The Thumby is really tiny, and is just the size of a person's thumb — hence the name,' said TinyCircuits president Ken Burns

Each Thumby console (pictured) sports a working battery, buzzer, gameplay buttons, power switch, screen and a micro-USB port to charge the console and update its software

'My goal with Thumby was to make the smallest game console,' said Thumby's principal engineer, Ben Rose

The screen is an OLED display and a loop on the bottom-right corner of each tiny, Game Boy -like console allows it to be attached to a keychain just like a keyring

'The Thumby is really tiny, and is just the size of a person's thumb — hence the name,' said TinyCircuits president Ken Burns

It has since followed up with tiny DIY collectable kits including a teeny television, Arcade console and violin, as well as minuscule circuit boards and e-textile applications

They have since followed up with tiny DIY collectable kits — including a teeny television, Arcade console and violin — as well as tiny circuit boards