Tag: Gaming
My Quest For The Utopian Laptop: Does The Perfect Laptop Exist?
Dictionary.com has one definition of Utopian as founded upon or involving idealized perfection. So when my wife was in the market for a new laptop and I volunteered to help her find one, I didn't realize what I was getting myself into. Is there such thing as a perfect laptop?
There are hundreds o ...
Mechanical Gaming Now Available For Donkey Kong Fans
Do you remember the first time you played Donkey Kong on one of those handheld monochrome things you could get as a child in the early '80s? They had pre-etched characters positioned on the LCD screen, which made it look like your character was actually moving, jumping and climbing ladders. It was a ...
Hungry Hungry Hippos: The Custom Mario Inspired Koopa Version
Oh my gosh, remember Hungry Hungry Hippos? That was one of my favorite games when I was little. It was so loud and obnoxious and fun. Hungry Hungry Hippos made marbles useful again, at least for me. I was so excited today when I saw that some Mario fan with too much time on his hands redesigned the ...
Stoplight In Germany Now Offers Pong Gaming While Waiting
So you are out walking in the city, and you need to cross the street. What do you do? Well, of course you stop, hit the button that will make the traffic stop and then you just stand there like a tree waiting. I guess that is usually how you go about crossing a street in a busy city, but that's not ...
Tricky Tracks Tilt-Shift Game Brings Back Childhood Lego Love
From a very young age, I can remember always enjoying building miniature cities with Legos. I'd tell my parents I was too sick to go to school and spend hours or even days building these intricate cities with tons of detail. One thing in common with all my builds was the fun I had while getting all ...
Arcade Art: Massive Vintage Video Game Chart
If you love retro arcade games from the '80s like we do, you are going to enjoy this for sure. For a lot of us, playing those games when we were growing up was a huge part of our childhood, and seeing each game brings back a whole flood of special memories.
Even today I have a full size arcade ga ...
Words With Friends App: An Award-Winning Crossword Puzzle Game
Not long ago, a family member gave me the Apple iPad 2 as a gift. Not having an iPhone and having never used a high-tech tablet before, I wasn't sure what to do with it. I surf the web, tweet and use Facebook all from my Blackberry daily, so it's not as though I really needed the iPad. Nonetheless, ...
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Internet Usage Predictions For 2012 [Infographic]
If you are an every day developer for the Internet, it is always important to stay on top of the trends when it comes to what is going on and what is going to be the next big thing. It is of course almost impossible to know exactly what will be the next success, but that doesn't keep us from predict ...
Pink Pearl Nintendo 3DS: Limited Edition For Valentine’s Day
Pink is my favorite color. Regardless of what it is, if there is ever a possibility to buy it in pink, I do. I even have a pink tool kit. It's complete with everything I need to do minor repairs, and everything is pink, even the hammer and the tape measure. You can see a picture of it here. So, when ...
iPieces: Adds Real Life Object Interaction To Your iPad
Developers of smartphones have long been hunting down the holy grail of interactive gaming. A huge reason why touchscreens were invented was to immerse the user even more into the digital world in front of her or him. So far we have only seen minor attempts to fully immerse the user with the help of ...
DIY Retro Nintendo 64 Handheld Console Mod
This is a good geek test. If you look at this project and think "Why would anyone ever want to take the time to transform a Nintendo 64 into a handheld console?" you might not be a hardcore geek. If you look at this and drool all over yourself like baby, well, there you go.
I have a feeling that ...
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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Pokéballs [Chart]
The person who titled this chart "WTF Is A Pokéball?" is very wise in my opinion. I'm sure a lot of people have asked themselves that same question. I know when I first got into Pokémon several years ago, I asked myself that question at least a dozen times.
If you want to know what a pokéball is, ...
Casino iPhone Apps: A Festive Way To Spend Some Downtime
This is the time of year when more people than ever before will be traveling and taking time off from work. Even people who are certified workaholics usually take at least a little bit of downtime over the holidays. It's also the time of year when a lot of people take a "technology detox" and unplug ...
Eye-Controlled Smartphones: Surf & Play Games With Your Eyes
This is one of those things that we knew was coming, it was all only a matter of time. About a year ago, Richard wrote about the people at Waterloo Labs who figured out how to play Super Mario only using their eyes. A few months after that, Tobii Technology and Lenovo demonstrated an eye-controlled ...
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World’s Most Realistic Ground Battle Warfare Simulator [Video]
Have you played any games lately? Maybe even an 8-bit game from the past? If not, I totally think you should. It will inspire you as retro games seem to do that if you are a big retro fan like me. I usually get very into anything that has to do with 8-bit, and if games are progressing the way they a ...