A lot of people were up in arms about Lego Friends — unfairly, for the most part. A Lego set is only what you make of it. Still, a lot of people bemoaned how the geekiest set, Olivia’s Inventor’s Workshop, still wasn’t all that elite. Thanks to the magic of ...

It's NHL playoff season, but, even through two nail-biting scoreless periods of Saturday's Rangers/Devils game, my head hasn't exactly been in the game. It's also been in my Nintendo 3DS.

As I discussed in my interview with I-Wei Huang, Skylanders character designer, there are many untold stories of the heroes behind the games and gadgets we love. Lightning struck a second time at Toys for Bob in the form of Robert Leyland, Skylanders technical engineer. He's the brains behind the game's ...

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 ...

It's easy to assume that big business success is achieved through making insightful and difficult decisions at the right time, spotting a gap in the market and committing to filling it. OK, so there is some truth in this, but another essential piece of the puzzle is the creative and ...

Wouldn't you like to have a device which can generate quantum ripples, guaranteed to alter your path in space-time? Well, you're in luck! The Thinket Quantum-Ripple Generator "sends out wave after wave of pure quantum-ripples" that do just that! Now, the manufacturer can't tell you exactly how it works (that's ...

I'm a bit of an audio junkie. Not an audiophile, mind you; I don't believe for a second I can tell the difference between an Ogg Vorbis and a Lossless FLAC. But I can tell when the bass is muddy and the highs are clipped. And I believe that when ...

As I sat with my young son on the couch watching the "plot" of our first episode of the new Transformers: Animated series unfold, I couldn't help but state the obvious.

"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here." These are the words Dante and his guide Virgil see inscribed over the gate to the underworld. And when we lived in Southern California, I always imagined the line printed over the entrance tunnel to Disney's iconic It's a Small World ride. That's ...

Hasbro has been pulling out all the stops on the movie tie-in side of Battleship: new versions of the board game, both analog and electronic, featuring the alien opponents; a first-person-shooter videogame coming that reminds me of Halo; an update to the iOS app that adds the aliens. The best ...