Roy Choi is a Southern California native. He has been infatuated with technology reviews ever since he bought his first crummy laptop in the summer of 2000. He's been a writer for 8 years with The Walt Disney Company prior to joining TechnoBuffalo. When he's not writing he enjoys spending time with this wife doing nerdy things. Follow him @TheRealRoyChoi
Disney and Lucasfilm announced Friday the newest Star Wars TV characters are joining the Disney Infinity universe. The toybox platform welcomes the Star Wars animated TV series characters Kanan Jarrus, Ezra Bridger, Sabine Wren and Zeb Orrelios into the already character filled world. The Star Wars Rebels join the already announced cast of Star Wars characters from the original trilogy...
Disney Interactive has released new information regarding new Star Wars play sets for Disney Infinity 3.0. Disney Infinity brings together physical figures into a virtual video game much like Nintendo’s amiibo or the Skylanders series. It is a mash-up perfect for Disney fans and collectors alike. To add to the fun, just a couple of weeks ago, Disney announced new Marvel and Star Wars...
On Tuesday Disney announced Playmation, a next generation smart toy system that combines wearables, Bluetooth, cloud computing, and motion sensors wrapped up in its own universe. It mixes one part video games and one part physical play all under the guise of donning armor or attire of a child’s favorite hero or heroine. The core idea of this new toy platform is to bring a new way for...
Disneyland celebrates its Diamond Celebration 60th anniversary this year and it kicks of today, May 22 with a 24 hour party. A new fireworks show, Disneyland Forever, caps off every fun filled night at Disneyland. For your money, it is hard to beat a Disney fireworks extravaganza. Each pyrotechnic shell and lighting effect is perfectly calibrated in sync with a colorful, emotion-filled...
We had a chance to check out Paint the Night an all-new electrical parade that users more than 1.5 million sources of lights, 500 strobes across parade floats, performers. All together Paint the Night uses more than 200 “universes of control” a rather fancy name for a complex web of programming that gets all these lights to work in sync to the parade. As the floats glow and pulsate down...
The folks at Disneyland recently invited us to check out the world premiere of its new World of Color- Celebrate! show at Disney California Adventure Park. As part of Disneyland’s 60th anniversary this new show (Celebrate! replaces the original show that has been running since 2010) tells the story of Walt Disney, Mickey Mouse, Disney Animation classics, Disneyland and ends with a look...
Disney on Tuesday announced that the Star Wars universe will be joining the Disney Infinity collection with Disney Infinity 3.0. Following on the steps of rumors, a new 3.0 starter pack along with three new Star Wars play sets were announced, one set from Episodes I-III, another from Episodes IV-VI and a third set that will be available this winter based on Star Wars: The Force Awakens...
If you think 4K TV of Ultra HD is all about screen resolution, you are wrong. So very wrong. In fact if you sit in front of a 4K TV and proclaim that the clarity is absolutely amazing, you’re probably more than likely falling prey to some placebo effect. Isn’t 4K about improved clarity? During IFA’s Global Press Conference in Malta, Paul Gray, Principal Analyst for IHS presented some...
Disneyland promises its 60th anniversary to be sparkling and dazzling befitting a diamond celebration. Some of your favorite rides and attractions will receive new additions and upgrades, while new nighttime fireworks and shows will cap off your next trip to Disneyland and Disney California Adventure. We were invited to Disneyland to experience a glimpse of just some of these new...
Griffin Technology on Tuesday launched a sleek new charging station on Indiegogo. It boasts five 12 watt USB ports and 5 non-scratch, non-slip storage pods. The Cove uses a UL-certified Charge Sensor circuit that senses what power is needed to deliver the correct charge. The Cove also has a door that hides all your gadgets and clutter when not in use, which also doubles as a stand, say...
Is Disney's MyMagic+ system truly magical? Is it the future of wearables? We're about to find out.
After rounds of match ups pitting flagship devices against each other we are just days away from crowning this year’s Mobile Madness winner. The finalists are the BlackBerry Passport and the OnePlus One. The BlackBerry Passport beat the Motorola Droid Turbo, Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and HTC One M9 to reach this final round. While the OnePlus One fended off the Apple iPhone 6, Samsung...
Editor’s Note: This poll is now closed, head over to the finals to vote! We’re getting close to the finals and in the previous round we saw the BlackBerry Passport cruising to a win against the HTC One M9. It will go on to face the winner of today’s match-up. Today we will see the BlackBerry Classic go head to head against the TechnoBuffalo Staff Phone of the Year for 2014, the...
We’re getting close to the final round! Yesterday paired the OnePlus One against the Samsung Galaxy S6, with the OnePlus One taking the win. We now have the final four smartphones: HTC One M9, BlackBerry Passport, Blackberry Classic and OnePlus One. This next round will allow a little extra voting time, one extra day to be exact. Voters will have between Tuesday through Thursday to...
Welcome back to another round of Mobile Madness. Yesterday we saw the BlackBerry Classic take the win against the Sony Xperia Z3. We’re about make our final four selections official, but before we do that we must vote between the OnePlus One and the Samsung Galaxy S6. Which earns your vote for best smartphone? Vote below after the spec comparison. Thanks for participating! Samsung...
Welcome back to another round of Mobile Madness. We’re rolling through the tournament and are well on our way to the semi-finals. Yesterday we saw the Galaxy Note 4 go up against the BlackBerry Passport. With the BlackBerry Passport taking the win in our reader’s choice tournament style poll. It’s all up to our readers to decide which phone is worthy of “best smartphone” so remember...
Welcome back to another round of Mobile Madness. Yesterday’s challenge pitted the HTC One M9 up against the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge. The M9 took the win. Today we’ll see the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 go up against BlackBerry Passport. The Note 4 outvoted the Moto X (2014) while the Passport bested the BlackBerry Passport to get to this round. So that leads us here. What will it be? The...
Welcome to another round of Mobile Madness 2015 where we allow our readers to determine the “best smartphone” in this tournament style contest. Thus far we’ve run nine rounds of the tournament and we’ve already lost some heavy hitters. Yesterday saw the Samsung Galaxy S6 go up against the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge. Rather strange to have two Samsung devices go up against each other in...
Yesterday we pitted the Apple iPhone 6 against our selection for ‘Phone of the Year’ the OnePlus One, with the OnePlus One eventually taking the win. It will eventually go up against today’s winner. So lets find out what device it will be. We have the newly announced Samsung Galaxy S6 vs the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge. We didn’t anticipate this match up when we went through the...
Yesterday we pitted the Nexus 6 against the BlackBerry Classic, with the Classic taking the win. It looks like BlackBerry fans came to vote from all over the world and gave the physical keyboard favorite a big boost. It will now go on to face the Sony Xperia Z3 next week. Today we have the Apple iPhone 6 going up against TechnoBuffalo’s phone of last year, the OnePlus One. I love both...