By Andrew Liszewski It’s time to retire your alphanumeric die as Hasbro prepares to bring Boggle into the 21st century. Sure, online and electronic versions of the game have been around for ages, but there’s always some appeal to playing with something tangible. And with Boggle Flash it’s...

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. But Foursquare doesn’t seem too tickled by Yelp’s newest feature. On Friday, Yelp fired a major shot across the bow of the location-based services with the launch of the latest version of its iPhone app. The app’s big new feature is the...

By Andrew Liszewski I’ll admit I got a little excited when I saw that Takara would be releasing 3 miniature Nintendo Game & Watch keychains including classic titles Parachute, Octopus and Chef , and the fact that they were completely solar powered was just the icing on the cake. But then my...

When you think of the idea of “checking-in” at a venue in a mobile app, you likely think of Foursquare or Gowalla right now. The two gained significant momentum , funding , and users in the location space in 2009. But even with the growth, both services are still relatively small, neither...

By Andrew Liszewski Put your kids on the path to a long and satisfying career in the field of bio-engineering with Mattel’s new Xtractaurs dinosaur toys. A $20 starter kit comes with what appears to be a T-Rex as well as an ‘extraction gun’ which is used to sample the dinosaur’s...

By Chris Scott Barr PC gamers such as myself are always big on customizing our keyboards and mice. Generally that means mapping keys to specific functions and adjusting the sensitivity of the mouse. However, when given the ability, we love to take the customization to a higher level. In the past we’ve...

By Andrew Liszewski I found this photo of someone’s Game Stop Duke Nukem Forever pre-order receipt rather amusing. It appears to be dated August 2001, and as you can clearly see the years have left it a bit yellowed, faded and if I’m not mistaken, even a little sad looking. I wonder if they’ve...

By Andrew Liszewski The mere mention of an official iPhone LEGO app might make you excited about building virtual police cars and pirate ships during your commute in the morning, but I’m afraid you’ll have to put those dreams on hold. LEGO’s first venture into mobile apps is actually...

By Andrew Liszewski With 200 MB/s read and 170 MB/s write speeds, A-DATA’s new N002 flash drive makes a convincing argument to upgrade to USB 3.0. But if you’re not ready to take the bleeding edge plunge just yet, the drive is also equipped with a SATA II connection and is even backwards...

By Andrew Liszewski It doesn’t contain a full-blown SNES console inside, which means it can’t be hooked up to a TV, but I still think this modded SNES controller is a really clever idea. It was created by benheck.com Forums member ‘techgeek90′ and not only does it use a RetroZone...

By Andrew Liszewski I’m pretty sure any real DJs wouldn’t be caught dead wearing one of these campy Tableturns watches from Flud, but according to the company’s website you can at least be assured you’re still ‘keeping it real’ if you’ve got one strapped to...

Palm knows that today one of the key items that help users decide between smartphones is the number and quality of apps available for the device. With many developers focusing more on the iPhone than any other device for application development, Palm needs to lure those developers to build for its new...