I really wanted to love Fruit Blast. If you’re not familiar with it, Fruit Blast is sort of a first-person shooter for your iPhone or iPod Touch. And it looks nice. The developers are Mark and Parker Lewis, a father and son team from California and avid BB gun enthusiasts, ...

Looking for gift ideas for your household music geek, geek dad or otherwise? While there are literally hundreds of speaker docks out there, when it comes to a true music geek, premium sound is the way to go. And if the tunes can be streamed wirelessly, even better. Here are ...

Looks like smartphones are the new baby monitors – there are a number of super popular apps on pretty much all smartphone platforms that allow parents to use their phones as baby monitors. No surprises there ... we all carry around smartphones these ...

Although the iPhone and iPod Touch have built in speakers, their sound is, to be kind, less than high-fidelity. The small speakers sound tinny at best — about enough to listen to voice audio, but hardly enough to crank it up to 11. And, of course, they can be fragile ...

Perhaps the biggest shift in gaming over recent years has been the rise of iPad, iPhone and iPod gaming. These multifunction devices not only offer new interactions but do so at a fraction of the price. This week on Family Gamer TV Tobi tries iPad gaming as we introduce him ...

Speaker docks are one of the more popular accessories for portable gadgets, especially those that are capable of playing music. The market for iPod, iPad, and iPhone speaker docks in particular has grown exponentially in the past decade. One side effect of this ever expanding offering is that there is ...

If you have a tween or a teen, you know what Beats by Dre are. And if this recent, breathless piece in the New York Times business section is right — there are going to be Benetton-hued, obscenely-priced headphones under a lot of trees this Christmas. While there is some ...

If it wasn’t enough that Angry Birds has conquered your iPhone, iPod, iPad, Android device, e-reader, computer and practically every gadget imaginable, then been made into everything from protective cases to board games, tee-shirts and plush toys, characters from Rovio’s game franchise are now prepared to invade musically. No, they ...

D G A E D H E K Quick, come up with a 7-letter word from the 8 letters above! What did you get? If you got GEEKDAD, good job, and if you enjoy that kind of challenge on a regular basis, then I have the game for you. Quarrel DX is ...

There are some historical moments whose significance is obvious at the moment, where you know it will be remembered and commemorated in years to come. But I suspect most people wouldn’t be able to recall the events in their lives on October 23, 2001, because you would have to have ...