Archive for September 2009

It was bound to happen. I’m actually surprised it took so long. The Nintendo DSi took the beloved handheld and added, among other things, an interesting feature: a camera (okay, actually two… cameras). And we all know what cameras mean when coupled with Internet access: pornography.

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Once upon a time, making a toy was as simple as whittling a rough shape in a piece of wood, or tying a few rags together. Today? You’ve got to have LEDs and microchips up in that business. And you thought all those batteries… were complicated.

Using a hodgepodge of

Get it? ‘Cause it’s a radio made of wood and okay you get it. Seriously though it’s an absolute beauty of a computer case, an old Delco wooden “tombstone style” radio that’s been gutted and fitted with computer hardware. It’s a perfect complement to the soviet TV pc. While it’s…

The United Press International continues to build on their 100 years of journalistic excellence with their coverage of an Australian woman and her cattle dog. Polly – the dog – recently underwent emergency surgery to remove 1,000 magnets from her tummy. Owner Cathy James said that Polly swallowed the magnets…

Based on personal experience, I would have to guess that most of us have already completed this Xbox 360 achievement at some point in the last couple of years.

This Red Ring of Death achievement T-shirt is bound to draw a few chuckles from your gaming buddies, and maybe a…

TecToy’s upcoming revamped edition of the classic SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis system is getting a modern-day upgrade with the addition of a Guitar Hero…-inspired controller and accompanying game.

The Mega Drive 4 Guitar Idol edition will include not only a Mega Drive/Genesis gaming system, and a pair of old-school controllers,

Let it be known that on this great and blindingly sunny morning I accomplished yet another first here at technabob: I got dibs on the word flowchart…. As unbelievable as that sounds this is indeed the first post here that contains that superficially geeky word. But a flowchart itself,

Anyone who’s played Street Fighter IV knows the only way to actually… play the game is with an arcade-style fightstick. Trouble is, if you’re not handy with a soldering iron and have some spare wood and wires lying around, you’re left with just one option, and that’s to pony up.

I can’t decide if this Princess Peach and Daisy Two Girls, One-Up …geek art by STACMASTER-S is hysterical, in really bad taste, or both. In either case, I like it.

If you’ve picked up the quirky puzzler Critter Crunch for the iPhone, then you know the concept is as brutal as the name sounds (under all that cuteness, anyway). Don’t be fooled by the adorable screenshots. Critter Crunch… is all about the cycle of life, and by that, I mean