Over the last couple of weekends Microsoft has thrown secret concerts in San Francisco and New York City to promote the recently launched KIN devices. On Saturday I had the opportunity to sit down with one of the three bands playing secret shows throughout NYC (a boat load of pictures are available here). I’d never really listened to …
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Get On Board, Together: Techland Reviews Skate 3
Skate 3
EA
Developer: EA Black Box
Playstation 3, Xbox 360
ESRB rating: T for Teen
System reviewed on: PS3
Five years ago, if you’d tried to tell me that a series other than Tony Hawk Pro Skater would be ruling the roost in the skateboard video game category, I would’ve laughed at you and gone back pulling off …
10 Badass Archers
The Hive Mind has very little faith in Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood, which opens this Friday. There’s something about it that just seems off. Maybe it’s Russell Crowe. Or maybe it’s the fact that this looks exactly like Gladiator. Also, Robin of the Hood sounds wrong and he never once steals from the rich and gives to the poor. This …
Graduation Gifts For Nerds
Feeling like your usual copy-of-The-Graduate-and-$20 gift giving approach is a little tired? Personalize your routine for the geeky grads in your life this year with the perfect gadgets and trinkets for work, play or travel. Who knows, you might even find a few gifts for yourself in the process.
(More on Techland: Two-Minute Video: Is …
Two Minute Video: Is the 3G iPad Worth the Upgrade?
The newly-available 3G iPad is nearly identical to the standard iPad except for a $130 price premium and the ability to connect to AT&T’s cellular data network. Monthly plans range from $15 for 250 megabytes of data to $30 for unlimited data with no long-term contract. So is the 3G iPad worth the extra $130 and, if so, which data plan …
Sci-Fi Sexy Time: All-Time Hottest Moms
I want you all to know that the headline for this piece was supposed to include the word MILF, but that was deemed inappropriate for the family-oriented website we’re trying to run here. I explained to them that it stands for Mom I’d Like to Friend — you know, like on Facebook! But that cut no ice. Man,
A Nerd’s Guide to Mother’s Day Gifts
Every year she delivers the same punch line: “I’ll love whatever you get me.” But, if she still hasn’t exactly warmed to what you got her, maybe it’s time to readjust your gift giving prerogative.
(More on Techland: Two Minute Video: Best Mother’s Day Gadgets)
You don’t need to ditch your “I heart Star Wars” attitude or even break …
Hive Mind: What We’re Looking Forward To In May
April, we hardly knew ye.
iPhonegate continues to be the biggest story of the month. Are you as sick of it as us? Multi-tasking. Finally. Speaking of Apple, how’s that iPad working out for you? You did see the video of the 99-year-old Oregon woman with her iPad, right? Or Green Day’s response?
Who’s giddy for an HP webOS …
A Practical Guide To Android [Update]
When Google’s mobile operating system Android launched in 2008 you could only get one device and it remained that way for some time. That’s definitely not the case in 2010 with all major US carriers snatching up Android devices left and right. Here’s a rather lengthy but concise guide on every Android device that’s currently available or …
Bust A Move: Our Favorite Sci-Fi Dance Scenes
In honor of National Dance Week, we decided to bring you a list of some of our favorite sci-fi dance scenes because the only thing better than a monster, is one with the inclination to shake what its mama gave it.
Teen Wolf (1985)
As werewolf Scott Howard, Michael J. Fox did what few geeks had done before: start a dance craze …
Review: ADD At The Losers, And Feeling Fine (B)
A friend forwarded me a review of The Losers by the Hollywood Reporter, and I was a little startled to read the opening sentiments: “The Losers is a cartoonish nonstop action movie in which characters zip around the world, breaking, entering and blowing things up without any pretense to logic,” it begins. “It’s a world devoid of …
HTC HD2 Review: If Only It Was Running WP7
There’s only so much I can say about a Windows Mobile device without wanting to gnaw my own foot off. The software is horrendous and the only people I ever encounter that have one are Microsoft employees or the PR folk who represent them. But the HTC HD2 for T-Mobile is different enough – screen size aside – that it warrants a smidgen …
