By Adriana Lee |
Every year at this time, a strange phenomenon takes place: Typically dead-serious companies and heavy-hitting news sites go bonkers with the bizarro fake stories. And if you’ve been online recently, you might’ve run into a few of these gags. Time to put your skeptismo hat…
By Adriana Lee |
We spend a lot of our time staring at some sort of display, so it’s not surprising if our tech proclivities bleed over into real life, right? Case in point: I was meeting up with a friend when I asked how his girlfriend was doing.…
By Adriana Lee |
If you’ve ever doubted that men use Pinterest, here’s proof positive below, taken from Buzzfeed’s “39 Ways Men Use Pinterest.” According to this collection, what they’re using it for isn’t too much of a surprise. The male users called out here are married and have…
By Adriana Lee |
There have been many firsts in history: the first successful pilot to fly across the Atlantic, the first female voter, the first man to walk the moon. But few firsts have left such an indelible mark on today’s Internet age than the person who read…
By Sean P. Aune |
One thing you can say about issues like the over heating iPad, at least it provides fodder for good humor. Following up on the Consumer Reports findings of the new iPad running hot, the Joy of Tech thinks it may have figured out the cause…
By Adriana Lee |
Longtime funnyman and iOS fanboy Robin Williams was on Ellen recently, promoting Happy Feet 2, and couldn’t help himself when the topic of Siri comes up. Seems the comic was in France and in need of a decent restaurant, so he hit up his iPhone…
By Joey Davidson |
As far as company spokespeople go, we think Sony and the PlayStation brand have the victory on complete lock down. Kevin Butler, VP of just about everything he can imagine, has starred in, and made glorious, several PlayStation commercials. The marketing efforts aim his personality…
By Killian Bell |
Conan O’Brien has been known to poke fun at Apple with a number of parody videos that have mocked the company’s iPad 2 adverts and completely lampooned its recent Final Cut Pro X debacle. (Which was a personal favorite of mine.) For our viewing pleasure, O’Brien…
By Adriana Lee |
There’s so much variety within the consumer tech landscape these days, that it makes sense to be aware of the options. Knowing what’s available, as well as what’s coming down the road, is the only way to be an informed shopper, right? After all, if…
By Joey Davidson |
In what could potentially be considered the greatest in-joke the video game industry has ever played on itself, 2K Games and Gearbox have gone and delayed Duke Nukem Forever… by a month. The game was initially scheduled to release in May of this year. It’s…
By Joey Davidson |
YouTube video creator freddiew has posted a completely new and entirely ridiculous short that takes the first level of Super Mario Bros. and jams it into first person perspective. The result is an outstanding blend of Mario meets Bulletstorm. Watch as the Italian plumber pulls…
