Living a healthy and active life takes a lot of extra work as a parent. But with the help of an arsenal of gadgets and apps I’ve found it’s possible to gain an advantage in this daily battle. Learn about …
Yesterday: Apocalypto Chapter 5 — Overwinding: The Short Forever What’s it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes to actually toss it? Or the ten-thousand-year history …
Well today we have a geekdom favorite, Alan Tudyk! This actor has been in almost every serious geek franchise there is – Transformers, Alphas, Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and V. Just check his IMDb profile for the rest, it …
When I was a kid, we played outside with the other kids in the neighborhood with most of our free time. We also made the most of recess at school. We kept ourselves quite occupied without any of today’s modern …
Last week, I reviewed Douglas Rushkoff’s excellent new book Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now. This week, GeekDad is excited to present 5 exclusive excerpts from the book.
Evil overlords have a tough time when it comes to punishing geeks. Here, then, are ten strategies for doing just that, for all those evil overlords — or those who’d like to become one — who could use a little …
Google’s daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
While at Pax East 2013 I had the opportunity to play a lot of games, observe some games, and add some new games to my games-to-play list.
Find the Dork Tower webcomic archives, DT printed collections, more cool comics, awesome games and a whole lot more at the Dork Tower website: www.dorktower.com.
Forget candy for Easter this year – be sure to pick up Sugar Rush for Easter! Sugar Rush of course is the video game world of our favorite brat racer in the movie Wreck-it Ralph. Seriously, what kid (or adult) …
Mad cow disease in Britain and old bombs in French fields… What to do? What to do? Oh, I know!
The SoundBender is a simple way to improve the quality of the audio coming from your iPad
The Deadwood Studios USA Kickstarter campaign wraps up next week and James Ernest has an offer for his backers to help him meet his stretch goals.
Trajan is a solid game with much to offer the serious gamer.
Google’s daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
Yesterday: Digiphrenia. Chapter 3 — Fractalnoia They matter less for the solutions they come up with or the accusations they make than for the underlying need driving them all: to make sense of the world in the present tense. When …
It’s difficult to find a cooperative dungeon crawl adventure that doesn’t require one of the players to play against their friends as the dungeon master, crypt keeper, or overlord. I’m very excited to see that MERCS Miniatures is Kickstarting a …
Zeptolab, the people behind the hit mobile games, Cut The Rope, and Pudding Monsters are branching into the physical realm with a line of Cut The Rope themed toys. I met up with them at Toy Fair for a tour …
Prepare yourself for Wordburglar’s G.I. Joe-inspired hip-hop masterpiece Welcome to Cobra Island!
The Digital Storm Bolt arrived in a surprisingly small box but its weight quickly dispelled the notion that this wasn’t a serious gaming machine. The case is solid and powder coated a nice shiny white with a cool black interior. …
Google’s daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
Last week, I reviewed Douglas Rushkoff’s excellent new book Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now. This week, GeekDad is excited to present 5 exclusive excerpts from the book. Today, we are going to learn about the phenomena of digiphrenia, where …
Find the Dork Tower webcomic archives, DT printed collections, more cool comics, awesome games and a whole lot more at the Dork Tower website: www.dorktower.com.
Boston Comics Roundtable, the Boston-based comics collective, seeks submissions for comics anthology geared for kids to be called Hellbound IV: Creatures and Monsters.
On Friday, Rovio’s Angry Birds franchise took a giant leap into the real world with the unveiling of a new space-themed attraction at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. The new interactive exhibit features a kid-friendly …
If the Imagine Cup is the World Series of Software Design, the Kodu challenge is like little league. Broken up into two age groups, students can use Microsoft’s free Kodu platform to learn programming fundamentals in a fun and intuitive …
The folks at the Smarter Every Day YouTube channel have posted a terrific video about Prince Rupert’s Drops. What the heck is a Prince Rupert’s Drop, and why would you possibly be interested in something that sounds so boring? Well, …
This week three more high-profile releases make their way to the Nintendo 3DS, and each manages to put a novel spin on an already established concept.
Welcome to the fifth irregular installment of Random Geek Roundup! This is where I collect a variety of links and sites and products that have come across my virtual desk in recent days. Just because you’ve discovered a specific interesting …
My youngest son was the only one of the four minion accompanying me to PAX East this weekend. I was there for the Geek Parenting panel on Sunday.
My son was there in search of a Dungeons & Dragons Red …
