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Tech Toys: Video Games, Consoles, Handhelds, Cell phones
Ok, I know of a certain Geek who used to have everything Nintendo (Lisa, spill it).... Whats your fav Tech Toy? Whether its your cell phone or Xbox 360, share it all here.
March 22nd, 2009 at 12:03 am
OK... I'll admit it... reluctantly. I'm in LOVE with my iPhone! I listen to music, take pictures, Twitter, Facebook, play games, check movie times, sports scores, and the latest news ALL on one device! I am also very fond of my Amazon Kindle. Basically, I am a gadget freak! If it uses a charger, most likely, I will love it! I suck at video games, so I am not a big gamer :(
March 22nd, 2009 at 12:20 am
I love my little Canon HF100 HD camcorder, it's so wee, I bring it everywhere. :)
June 9th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
I hate to buck the iPhone trend here, but I love my Blackberry Storm. My sister is a gadget freak and loved hers so she talked me into it. I barely used my old cell phone, but I think I'd have a panic attack if I was separated from my Storm. Facebook, Twitter, camera, games, it's all there, and it's love. :) I use it for Pandora radio, too, which is great, but I still use my iPod for most of my music. I have so many songs that it would overwhelm any phone (at current GBs anyway), so I find it easier to keep it separate. I'm also a completist, so it bothers me to put only part of my music on the phone to make it fit. I know I'm not likely to listen to Christmas music in June, but...what if? LOL
As for other electronics, I love my cheap, tiny ASUS netbook. Great for tending to the Internets while watching TV, etc. I also love my PS3. I like first-person shooters (can't wait for the new Call of Duty in Nov!), RockBand, Guitar Hero and some racing games. My dog, Eleanor, loves the PS3 controller. I have to hide it from her or she puts it in her bed and licks it. :) Nothing like trying to snipe at some 14-year-old online with a slobber covered controller! Unpleasant.
June 9th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Okay, I didn't realize that if I pushed reply on the first post it would stick my post all the way up here. Oooops. :)
March 22nd, 2009 at 11:44 am
Gotta agree about the iPhone.Also Nintendo DS and PSP.
Love video games.
March 22nd, 2009 at 7:10 pm
I am a huge guitar pedal person . I could spend all my money on vintage amps and guitars and guitar pedals. My newest love is my iPhone . I used to be a huge gamer but not so much.
March 23rd, 2009 at 3:46 am
One game app to have on your iPhone would be MiZoo which is a puzzle game.
March 23rd, 2009 at 6:27 pm
I love my fingerworks keyboard! (It's a typing keyboard) There are testimonials from musicians who swear by it, and claim it has significantly reduced any carpal tunnel they may have been experiencing.
The keyboard is completly flat with 8 small bumps indicating the home row position. It's has an integrated mouse built into it, and you can create and map "gestures". For example if you want to cut and past you could pull you right middle finger and thumb together to cut, and then expand the same fingers to paste. That is just the start. You can grab and snap windows together using an "X-winder" feature. (Kind of like the movie "Minority Report, when Tom Cruise was moving things on the screen with his hands)
There is a bit of a learning curve because there is no tactile feedback and you have to use a very light touch when typing, but the 6 week learning curve was worth it.
This gaget has an interesting history. The rumor on the street is two guys developed the "fingerworks" technology as a thesis paper for MIT. They built the keyboard in a basement. (I guess one of them was still living at home). They then sold the rights of the technology to Apple. So over the past couple years Apple has slowly been integrating this technology into their products. This technoloy can be seen in the iPhone, and I suspect the low profile keyboards are getting people adapted to reduced tactile feedback so Apple can possibly move to a completly flat surface.
The sad thing for me is, this keyboard is no longer being made, so it if breaks I am up a creek without a paddle. If you're lucky you may be able to get chips from China.
I love this device so much that the day it was announce Fingerworks is no longer in business these keyboards were selling for $800.00 on e-bay. Sure I could have made a quick buck, but I am too addicted to it. There are some things not worth selling.
http://www.fingerworks.com/
Happy typing!
March 23rd, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Too poor & living in arse end in of nowhere, so not much going on in tech dept, but watched "King of Kong" the other day and made me wish I'd kept my original nintendo handhelds from 1982 - Parachute & Donkey Kong - otherwise I make do with cellphone, ipod & buddha machine. Jonesing for a Aspire One netbook...
March 24th, 2009 at 1:18 am
total home theatre nerd. i could talk audio gear all night. home and studio. also love all things apple. iphone. appletv. after working with wendy & lisa in the late 90's i took a break from music and went to work for apple for 5 years. that's how much i love apple! i also have all the good gaming consoles...wii...ps3. oh, and my dyson. looooove my dyson.
March 24th, 2009 at 1:29 am
Re: Renata
What no Rhoomba? lol
March 24th, 2009 at 11:28 am
The Roomba is a great way to entertain your cat while sucking up the fur on the floor!
March 24th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Works well with dog hair too :D
March 24th, 2009 at 5:26 am
Well lets see.....
We have Wii with numerous games(daughter plays)....my daughter has a LG.....I have a Palm...and for the Wii console we have games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band and Resident Evil games and the like( I love zombie games). We have 2 computers(daughter uses desktop for gaming and I hae my new laptop YAY!)
If I think of more ill edit.....
have a good one :D
March 24th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
My mother-in-law has a Roomba! What a slacker....
Me? I just don't vacuum! Ha.
March 24th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
Uhh, after working for Pacific Bell Mobile Services aka Pacific Bell Wireless aka Cingular aka AT&T Wireless for so long I have given up any interest on electronics. :sigh: To add insult to injury, my new pad doesn't have a microwave. I am going to be cooking popcorn outside in a pit.
Let's see...i'd say my Tivo is my favorite gadget, does that count?
March 25th, 2009 at 12:45 am
i'm not very gadgety - but i love my ipod. she was orignally named "purple winged dove" but, i changed it to "d.m.s.r."
March 25th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
I love how I can plug my PC keyboard into my PS3 for playing Metal Gear Online - loads of great keyboard shortcuts for character speech like "No time for tears, we're all as good as dead anyway" etc
Looking forward to getting Resident Evil 5 soon. Shpooky!
Hmm, my updated profile pic aint showing up.
March 26th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
I can see ur pic.
I so cant wait for RE5 either.
Have a good one.
S
March 26th, 2009 at 12:39 am
Ok, here is the extent of my geekness.....PS2 (love any type of 1st person shooters, Guitar Hero), PSP (Lara Croft) , Nintnedo DS (Prof. Layton and the Curious Village)...Addicted to my cellphone (LG Dare). Im always looking into the latest and greatest cellphones. Im a huge fan of Gizmodo.com, CNET.com,Phonescoop.com...etc, etc, etc. I am a news junkie @ heart and use my cell phone to read anything from CNN.com to LAtimes.com. On a lighter tip, i collect anything Sorcerer Mickey (from the Original Fantasia). I just love him! Oh yea....and Hallmark Ornaments. I have the 1st StarTrek (USS Enterprise) ornament issued in the 90's. Dont ask me how much i want for it cuz its not for sale..lololol And finally...1 desktop, 2 laptops, flat screen w surround sound and my ipod.....Shhheeesh i have too much crap!
March 28th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Hey Jedison, too bad you don't have a 360 or maybe you do, but you didn't mention it. If you did we could play together my tag name is the same as my twitter name.
I too love 1st person shooters too. I also love guitar hero. I'd like to get Rock Band, but I really have no place for the drums. I really don't play on line much anymore because I got tired of all the homophobic trash talk from people. I would love to play on line again, but with a selected peeps.
As far as PS2 games go. I love Katamari Damacy. That king has quite a package. I'm surprised that game isn't rated "M" for Mature. If I were a child I may be tramatized by him, and his horrible comments. Of course I have GH for PS2 as well. I also like Lego Star Wars, and Resident Evil 4.
Since I've moved I haven't gamed yet.
I'll have to check out Lara Croft for PSP. The last time I played that francise was on the PS1, and it was always fun trying to get her into compromising positions.
Maybe we can get W&L back in the gaming mode, and we could have a game night...Wii Bowling with Girl Bros!
Happy gaming!
March 28th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Suejester,
I would love a game bowling night on Wii sports especially with Girl Bros. My daughter has the sports package on Wii and I have been practicing but unfortunately bowling for real I SUCK! That would be so neat if Wendy and Lisa (with their wives) could join in the fun?
We would all have fun and yeah you know :P
Lisa would have to bowl with us not MC either :P
Anywho have a good one all
:)
S
April 28th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
No worries about skill sets..It would just be a hoot. I have not been on my wii for quite sometime, i'm sure I have some updates which are needed...
Could you imagine though, a GBN game night? Lisa pulling out Shecky when Wendy is trying to be all serious. Wendy dropping f-bombs, Renata playing referee..ah I can hear it all now...
Take care!
March 28th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
@ JedisonPi
You only have 1 star trek ornament??!! (My whole xmas tree is star trek, hee hee)
ok, I'm not a techy person. I'm total old school. I just got rid of my portable cd player. What I really really am looking at for a new toy is an 120g Ipod touch. Do you know how exicted I got when I found out that you can put 30,000 songs on that?! My god.
Problem is I break everything that I have, cell phone-broke, newish Ipod- broke, laptop-will probably break soon...
I'm not a huge gamer, but LOVE LOVE LOVE guitar hero. (I can rock it out!) I just like my non-technical books. :)
March 31st, 2009 at 10:10 pm
@ickynicy
Oh No..I have more than 1. But that first one is worth the most. I collect ornaments. Some Disney, Wizard of Oz, Bugs Bunny and certain ones that are part of a series.
August 17th, 2009 at 2:52 am
Ok...Now I can also add a WII to the collection. Ohhh man, whats a girl to do now? Help Sue!!!! Lisa, any suggestions?
March 26th, 2009 at 9:57 am
For someone who works in the tech field, I am such a danged Luddite! I'm not really gadgety. But, two things I really want:
March 26th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Considering I'm a ridiculous gaming geek, my most prized technological toy is my Vectrex. Although in terms of what's getting the most use, that would be my XBOX 360 and my Gamecube.
May 16th, 2009 at 10:00 am
Other than the usual video games and stuff which I love , I have fun with my gameboy camera and making silly tunes with my korg kaossilator and electribe even though Im not particularly accomplished with them LoL
May 24th, 2009 at 12:17 am
I like Guitar Hero and Crazy Taxi on Playstation. Still have my Super Nintendo. Anyone remember that?
May 24th, 2009 at 3:43 am
Yeah I remember that although I had a Sega Megadrive myself.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:51 pm
i must admit i am having a love affair with my iPhone! Everything on it is so bitchen i can spend hours fooling with it. camera music maps twitter facebook email games and much much more sill stuff....
i will ALWAYS be a total NINTENDO FAN! i love everything they have ever put out. i have two ds handheld games and i need a third one because my daughter keeps co-opting them!
;) ahhh thats my girl.
i love EKTOPLASM for the DS and the guy that designed that game made a musical instrument called the Tenori-On that is a fantastic time stealer. oh my GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODNESS! it is the shizznizztizrizzsizzler!
having said that i'm been known to lose hours playing BURN OUT on the Playstation and
WE LOVE Katamari!
i could go on and on...... thanks for asking. you are my peeeeeple.
x
June 9th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
OMG, someone else loves Electroplankton! That game has stolen so much of my time....
As has We Love Katamari. The first one didn't come out in Europe, we were totally robbed. But We Love Katamari did, so that made everything good! And the soundtrack is possibly the happiest music ever!
Nana-nananananana-na-nana-na-nananaaaaaaaaa..............
June 3rd, 2009 at 7:45 pm
Been playing Fallout 3 on my PC...OMG it's awesome!
June 4th, 2009 at 3:36 am
Lisa,you should check out Peggle on the iPhone,great game.
June 5th, 2009 at 1:34 am
im downloading now...
Its me wendy..
HAHAHAHAH
June 5th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
I'll have to drag out and dust off the old Super Nintendo and see what I've got for games. It was going out of style when I bought it years ago so there were lots of games that were cheap so I went for it. I used to enjoy Castlevania, The Legend of Zelda which could take days upon days upon hours to play but fun no doubt. Tetris is a fun one too. The role playing game ones were fun at one time in my life but don't have the time or the patience for those these days. Racing videos also are cool. Love those. I do understand why guitar players make faces when there playing guitar though. No, i don't play a real one but sometimes it's hard to hit those buttons just right on Guitar Hero and I find myself making the scrunchy face. :) Oh, and by the way, I'm on Twitter but don't have text but you probably already figured that out. Have a nice weekend dames. :)
June 7th, 2009 at 10:41 am
Katamari totally rocks , theres a new one out soon :)
I can just see Lisa's daughter hogging the DS , so cool LOL !!!!
Post up some friend codes people
June 9th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
I don't know why they haven't brought out a Katamari game on the DS, it seems so perfect!
And I'm Colicub on XBOX Live as well as here. And everywhere else on the web!
September 5th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
This thread hasn't been updated in a while, but I'm feeling particularly nerdy tonight. I have a Hp special edition dv4 that I'm in love with. I bought it with all of the bells and whistles so it never gets old. Other than that I actually have a Zune, you know that music player that is like an iPod? Haha. I'm a true PC person through and through.
I've also got a ps2 that I play rockband and guitar hero on. I used to be big into gaming, but I just don't have time for it anymore.
October 6th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Anybody making tunes with Beaterator on PSP?
October 6th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
What video games are you most looking forwards to playing?
November 6th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Bioshock 2! The first is the end result, in my humble opinion, of where video games have been heading. Such a beautiful, atmospheric work. The way in which the sound design fundamentally altered the experience was a revelation. Taking the more than solid basic gameplay and turning a fairly simple firefight into something terrifying through atmosphere, stunning visuals, voice work and scoring is something which most reviews and critics of the game fail to mention. I'm sure Bioshock 2 won't deliver the same revelatory moments but I do think that it will be a beautiful display of 2K's sizeable talent.
December 19th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
I have a PS1, PS2, N64, and (finally) a REAL dvd player, instead of my ps2, which is so moody, that if a dvd in my playstation is thinking about a dvd on the other side of the planet which has a piece of dust on its surface, the wretched console will assume you have just shoved in a dvd-sized stack of pancakes (with syrup), and act accordingly.
I also have a DS, which I havent played in ages. (Got kinda bored with animal crossing, and I never finished ancient magic or trauma center.)
I haven't been able to afford any of the new consoles (I normally wait a few years.) As a result, I've been revisiting a lot of my old games. (most of them from the PS1) FF9, persona 2, Alundra, harvest moon, a wee bit of motor toon grand prix.
My regression has now de-volved to the point that I am on my N64, and am in the middle of replaying Zelda: Majora's Mask. My fiancee has now also gotten herself snagged playing another game of Zelda OoT for the millionth time, since she has yet to catch the Hyrule Loach, and we don't have twilight princess yet. (her dad won a wii at a raffle)
As for the iPhone, well, no... I refuse to own one of those. However, it's a super fun platform to design games for. Since it has such teeny tiny pixels, you get a full 640X480 on that fancy credit card of a phone.
Speaking of cell phones, I use mine as my mp3 player. Much cheaper than an iPod.
April 1st, 2010 at 2:08 pm
Ok kids, time to update the info on GEEK CHIC......whats your new GEEK GEAR for right now? Lisa, Im sure your have some new toys for the Wii, Ds or? Wendy? Any new pedals, amps or otherwise that you can share?
For me its been that damn Tony Hawk Skateboard for my Wii. I must admit i love it. Next up i think is my blackberry....I love getting cool apps for that thing. Oh and using my webcam in my new laptop for chatting with my baby while im away....btw, i got a nikon d5000 and im on the hunt for some cool lenses. Lisa, any advice?
Thank you...im going back to hide now....
Jpi
April 1st, 2010 at 6:31 pm
I got given a copy of Lego Batman for the DS and I just bought Kirby Super Stars for it too, so I'm stuck back on my DS again! And new Pokemon......YAY!!!
And I just bought a shiny new camera!
April 2nd, 2010 at 3:46 am
Got the DSi XL and the new Pokemon games. Also ThumbJam on iPhone is a pretty cool ap. Pinball Heroes on PSP minis is great.
April 2nd, 2010 at 9:06 am
Ninty are going to announce the 3DS at this years E3 show it sounds awesome fun:)
Korg just brought out the Kaossilator Pro which is just great fun for anyone that is that way inclined