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  • Dork Tower Wednesday
    Find the Dork Tower webcomic archives, DT printed collections, more cool comics, awesome games and a whole lot more at the Dork Tower website: www.dorktower.com.
    20 hours ago
  • Bop It! Smash: Lightning-Quick Reflexes Not Included
    That weird dumbbell-shaped gizmo is the latest incarnation of Hasbro's popular Bop It! toy. The older models had various things to bop, twirl, pull, and tweak ¿ all set to various sound effects and a voice shouting instructions at you. The Bop It! Smash takes the basic "bop" control and boils it down to a game of fast reflexes.
    21 hours ago
  • Form vs. Function: Wood Shell and KidSafe Cases for iPhone 4S
    I love a good iPhone case, but as my junk drawer fills up with more and more options it becomes that much harder for a simple phone cover to make a proper impression. Still, there are those at work crafting innovative new shells for the ubiquitous iPhone 4/4S, even if what sets them apart also limits their overall utility.
    22 hours ago
  • Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer: Geekdom's Power Couple on Sandman Prequel and Kickstarter Success
    Fantasy author Neil Gaiman made headlines around the world last week when he announced a return to the beloved Sandman series for the comic's 25th anniversary. It will be the first new Sandman story in a decade, and nobody was more excited by the news than Wired. We caught up with Gaiman the day after the announcement at a gallery in the Mission, where his wife, the powerhouse musician and performance artist Amanda Palmer, was preparing to take the stage for a standing-room-only concert appearance.
    22 hours ago
  • Study: WikiLeaked Data Can Predict Insurgent Attacks
    Insurgencies are amongst the hardest conflicts to predict. Insurgents can be loosely organized, split into factions, and strike from out of nowhere. But now researchers have demonstrated that with enough data, you might actually predict where insurgent violence will strike next. The results, though, don't look good for the U.S.-led war.
    07.17.12
  • House Party! The 3-D Light Show You Can Control With an iPad or Wii
    There was a time when concertgoers were perfectly happy just listening to the band play. Not anymore. Today fans expect to see pyrotechnic spectacles with elaborate lighting and special effects for the price of admission. When the time came to create the visuals for Floating -- a new album by Danish electronic artist Rumpistol / Red Baron -- design studio Futura Epsis 1 made something that was a bit of both.
    07.17.12
  • Dork Tower Tuesday
    Find the Dork Tower webcomic archives, DT printed collections, more cool comics, awesome games and a whole lot more at the Dork Tower website: www.dorktower.com.
    07.17.12
  • Merry Christmas in July!
    The past couple of years, my little family has been starting some of our own family traditions. At Thanksgiving we have a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving lunch. In June we celebrate May the Fourth Be With You. In July we celebrate Christmas in July. Why? Because it's fun and any excuse to get out our Santa hats and Christmas movies is good enough for us.
    07.17.12
  • Review: Game of Life: Zapped Edition for iPad
    The Game of Life was first created over 40 years ago by Reuben Klamer. Since its creation, the game has undergone some changes to keep up with the times. None of the changes have been quite as drastic as they are in the latest edition, The Game of Life: zAPPed Edition for iPad .
    07.17.12
  • R.I.P. Donald J. Sobol, Encyclopedia Brown Author, 1924-2012
    We at GeekDad are sorry to hear of the death of author Donald J. Sobol who, according to Reuters, passed away on July 11 at age 87, of natural causes. Sobol was best known for his Encyclopedia Brown series, featuring a boy detective named Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown (so nicknamed because he was a genius). The boy Sherlock Holmes appeared in some 30 books from 1963 to 2011.
    07.17.12
  • Dork Tower Monday
    Find the Dork Tower webcomic archives, DT printed collections, more cool comics, awesome games and a whole lot more at the Dork Tower website: www.dorktower.com.
    07.16.12
  • The Wow Wireless Bluetooth Speaker: Style and Sound
    Here's a crowdfunding project for all you audiophiles. It's the Wow Wireless bluetooth speaker and it not only sounds great, but looks great, too. Despite the huge number of speakers out there, most of them look a lot alike. They're generally little cubes or little rectangles made of shiny metal and plastic. It's not that they're ugly, but they're just not very pretty. This little speaker delivers not only great sound, but a genuinely stylish design that will add to your room.
    07.16.12
  • GeekDad Puzzle of the Week: Dog Siblings
    Every once in a while you get a puzzle handed to you. This week I was at the scum hole the city of Boulder, Colorado, calls the dog swimming "beach," and a guy with a black lab said that his dog, Selkie, has five brothers and sisters in town. "But I've never run into one of them," he said. "I wonder what are the chances of that?"
    07.16.12
  • GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution: Math Trolls
    Nora made it successfully to her Grandmother's house with at least 1000 berries, enough for quite a few pies. Here is the puzzle as presented earlier this week: Nora is taking a trip to visit her Grandmother in northernmost New York State this week, to bring her some freshly picked berries. On the way there, she has to cross a total of 30 bridges, and under each of the these bridges lives a troll. (That's how they roll in northernmost New York.) Each troll is aware of their bridge number, and either demands or gives berries based upon the rarest or most applicable description of their bridge. They demand or give berries according to the following schedule...
    07.16.12
  • A Visit to the Space Shuttle Discovery
    I looked into her face for a very long time, and nearly started to cry. There she was. The shuttle that flew into space more times than all the rest.
    07.15.12
  • Is Who's Got Game? a Game For You?
    Neil Strauss is known for his books instructing men how to become a pick-up artist and player. Now, he can also be known for a party game.Who's Got Game? is a card driven game with questions and activities that earn you points.
    07.15.12


 

 

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