| From the early days of Pong to the golden age of Mario and Sonic and even in this current era of slickly produced racers and frenetic run-and-gun titles,videogames have always been about movement. Late last year,Australian developer Halfbrick Studios sought to distill this concept down to its primal essence with the release of [...] [...] I may never understand why LEGO didn’t make it into the first two Toy Story movies,but they will definitely have a part in the 3rd one. What appears to be a geeky match made in heaven,LEGO Set 7595 merges three awesome toys into one great product. There are no real surprises in Army Men [...] [...] Every geek occasionally suffers from gadget envy. Even if you’re such an early adopter that you’re already waiting in line to get an iPad,your personal collection of gadgetry is limited by that pesky thing we call “reality.”Go ahead,tell me you haven’t,while watching Star Trek,thought about how handy it would be [...] [...] Two years ago,you were reading this by Jacob Russell. We recently gave the Pup a computer of her very own. We had previously given her a hand-me-down,which subsequently died,but this was special. A geek-friend of mine recently built some PCs as part of a project at work (Core Duo,4 gigs [...] [...] Christmas 2009 brought a good haul of LEGO,including another entry in the LEGO gaming range:Race 3000. Race 3000 allows you to build a LEGO Grand Prix track and to race around it with up to 4 players,overtaking,switching lanes,avoiding oil slicks and taking shortcuts. There’s even a little LEGO podium for the [...] [...] The year is 3042,which of course means that there are death match tournaments. Fighters across the world strap blasters to their arms and shoot it out for fame and glory—or at least a high score on the Facebook Leaderboards. Battle Blasters for the iPhone and iPod Touch is an arcade-style one-on-one shoot-out. There are six [...] [...] A dream come true! A four foot tall calendar made of bubble wrap! Pop a bubble every day to mark the passage of time. Just don’t pop them too fast or you’ll screw up the space-time continuum. To avoid the temptation I recommend getting an electronic bubble wrap keychain. The calendar appears to be sold out [...] [...] There has been much speculation about what Apple will be announcing today. Will it be a glorified book reader? An iPod Touch/iPhone on steroids? We will find out very quickly here,and then we can all envision how we could use the device. Will it help you at work? Will it be the perfect commuting [...] [...] The team of students attempting to turn a Microsoft Surface table into a platform for Dungeons &Dragons campaigns made a lot of progress since GeekDad highlighted the project last fall. An updated video released in December shows an adventure in progress,complete with miniatures,maps,virtual dice,and a DM control panel. And Orcs. SurfaceScapes [...] [...] There has been,and surely will continue to be,a lot of speculation in these weeks leading up to the expected announcement of Apple’s tablet computer on January 27. This is the normal state of things,it seems,ever since the iPod’s original introduction in the fall of 2001,but in this case the murmuring [...] [...] | |