Pick your routes, place your cars, and get your tickets punched. This week’s episode of Geek & Sundry‘s Tabletop features all-time favorite train game Ticket to Ride and this week’s guests are actor Colin Ferguson, Wil’s friend and huge comic geek Amy Dallen and Wil’s wife, Anne Wheaton. Ticket to Ride is ...

I've actually gotten to play with the Etcher myself: Krupnik sent me an earlier prototype (ugly, but functional) when he found out I'm an Etch-a-Sketch artist, and I wanted a first-hand impression of how the thing actually works. Because really, as one of my fellow GeekDads asked, why would you ...

Mother's Day around our place has frequently featured video gaming sessions, where my wife is given the opportunity to play a game, theoretically without interruption — anything in the Zelda series is a typical choice. This might not sound like a big deal, but since we've had kids, sitting down ...

Piano Apprentice is an app-cessory. It turns your iPad into a small electronic piano with the ability to play video tutorials and sells itself as a piano teaching tool.

It's not everyday that a company sends you an iPad 3 and a case and asks you if you'd kindly put the iPad in the case and roll over with your vehicle. But that's what the folks that make the Hammerhead Capo Hard Case for the iPad 2 and iPad ...

I have a 4 year old son who loves mazes. He’s not yet graduated to the more complex mazes that are abundant on book store shelves and magazine racks so the few maze books I’ve found for his age group consist of anywhere from 25 to 50 pages of simple ...

My music lessons at school were a little uninspiring, and at home my Bontempi keyboard failed to inspire me -- even with its seven preset voices. I was slightly skeptical when I stumbled across the DJ Rig app for iPhone and iPad. Was this another short-lived gimmick?

About a year ago I was introduced to the MeeGenius library -- this is a company that is celebrating its second birthday on Thursday, April 26. A very young company! Besides accessing their large digital book library (currently over 700 titles) via a web browser, they also now have apps ...

Need some game play this Earth Day? Guide Slippery the Harbor Seal as she swims from San Francisco to Alaska eating yummy clams and avoiding dangerous predators like sharks and jelly fish. But don't worry Slippery can keep her enemies at bay off by shooting pearls from her mouth.

I hate to admit it, but chess hurts my head. I love playing games, finding patterns, devising strategies, but there is something about chess that frustrates me. I think it is because I end up planning elaborate schemes, having to remember a sequence of moves that is too long. Memory ...