Posted by Michael Pinto on Sep 20, 2010 in
Hobbies and Collections,
Tech
![Speagurumi Cute Carrying Pouch Speakers Speagurumi Cute Carrying Pouch Speakers](http://www.fanboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Speagurumi-Cute-Carrying-Pouch-Speaker-00-400x400.jpg)
If you like you sounds kawaii this Speagurumi Cute Carrying Pouch Speaker collection is for you! Each speaker retains it’s block look, thus giving a superdeformed blockhead version of Hello Kitty, Elmo from Sesame Street, Doraemon and a Mukku version of Gachapin: Read more…
Tags: Doraemon, Hello Kitty, iPod, iPod Touch, Sesame Street
Posted by Michael Pinto on Jul 15, 2010 in
Videogames
![Nimble Strong: A game for the iPhone Nimble Strong: A game for the iPhone](http://www.fanboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/nimblestrong-00-400x256.jpg)
Nimble Strong is a new bar-tending themed game for the iPhone which combines the charm of an old school Nintendo role playing game with an otaku-friendly anime art direction style. However unlike so many Nintendo DS games where you’re challenged with a unrelated quiz at every turn (like Professor Layton) what makes the gameplay here so wonderful is that to advance in the game you have to mix a drink. And you’re not just blindly clicking on a tumbler to score points, but actually learning to bartend as you go along: Read more…
Tags: Anime, iPhone, iPod Touch
Posted by Michael Pinto on Feb 19, 2009 in
Tech,
Videogames
![Casual games on the iPod Touch Casual games on the iPod Touch](http://www.fanboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/apple-casual-games.jpg)
The latest Apple commercial featuring 20 hot games on the iPod Touch brought a smile to my eye as it represents Apple getting back their pre-Macintosh roots of the Apple ][. The hidden secret to the success of any operating system is games. Now these don’t have to be games aimed at hardcore gamers, in fact what will sell a platform are casual games that you can drop in and out of easily. Read more…
Tags: Apple, iPhone, iPod Touch
Posted by Michael Pinto on Jan 22, 2009 in
Tech
![What so many nerds don’t get is that a netbook can be the size of a Moleskine sketch book... What so many nerds don’t get is that a netbook can be the size of a Moleskine sketch book...](http://www.fanboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/netbooks-moleskine.jpg)
From time-to-time techies go through certain fads where a certain idea just seems right, so we often yearn for a solution to which there is no problem. A good example of this occuired in the 90s when many smart folks realized that while a PC with Windows 95, Netscape and a dialup modem were great — what if you could push this concept one step further and have a consumer friendly all-in-one unit? The answer was WebTV and the device was a resounding failure. Read more…
Tags: Apple, DSi, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kaypro II, Netbooks, Nintendo, WebTV