Incantor, a smartphone-based augmented reality game currently in the works by developer MoveableCode, hopes to offer geeks like me a way to wizard-duel in the real world. With a Bluetooth-enabled wand and a smartphone app, I'll cast spells, battle my friends, and complete quests, all in my own backyard. It's ...

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 ...

As someone mentioned on Twitter, this is a trifecta of geek awesomeness. And it puts the iPhone in its proper place as an alien technology planted on Earth to catalyze our evolution into (more) sapient beings. You can see the original posting on Imgur here. Originally found via Daring Fireball.

Having been a long time user of various iRig iPhone products I jumped at the chance to try out their new gadget, the iRig MIC Cast. This is a compact microphone on a mini-jack plugs directly into the iPhone to enhance the audio volume and audio quality of recordings.

The crowdfunding website Kickstarter has become the launch point for a number of clever and useful smartphone accessories in the past two years. Now Portland-based photographer and design engineer Charles Waugh is using Kickstarter to raise funds for his own addition, the SlingShot smartphone video/photo stabilizer. It's already at over ...

Recently, Texas Instruments (TI) (NYSE: TXN) DLP® Products and Brookstone announced the availability of the iPhone 4/4S miniature projector accessory case which includes TI’s DLP® Pico™ projector technology. As the first projector of its kind, the accessory acts as a thin sleeve that will allow iPhone 4 and 4S users ...

Sooner or later kids have to have their own accounts. Whether it’s email, Google, Amazon or iTunes, kids eventually grow up and need to begin accumulating their own digital goods in their own inboxes and libraries. The question is, at what age is this appropriate? The standard answer here is pretty ...

My family loves video games. However, like most families, we live on a budget. This means we can neither afford to buy one of every console available nor even keep up with the new games released for the two platforms we own.

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?

Nathan Jurevicius is an Australian illustrator and animator primarily known here in the States for his highly stylized Scarygirl graphic novel/video game. Recently digital accessory manufacturer Cygnett brought the world of Scarygirl to the iPhone 4S via a series of stunningly designed limited edition cases from their ICON design series.