Having noticed a gap in tools for publishing and organizing the many webcomics available on the Internet, Benedict Jones and Justin Salsburey are looking for help to launch Inkd, a digital version of the comics section of a newspaper. This …
Continue ReadingIn December 2011, I fell asleep wondering how a three-person game of Roshambo would work. From the inspiration of BIG Night to the engineering of The Game Crafter, I was able to polish that idea into something I could put …
Continue ReadingWhen Raul Mujica started his new company, he did so to address a problem he experienced trying to keep his relatives engaged with his kids as they grew up on the opposite coast. Sending video through email on YouTube didn’t …
Continue ReadingAssembled in 54 hours by a team of four, A Simple Thank You offers a Pinterest-esque queue of public thanks posted by people who feel similarly grateful to be surrounded by helpful friends, family and colleagues.
Continue ReadingDespite the seriousness of events like Hurricane Sandy or topics like equality and public education, politics gives us plenty to laugh at. Mock the Vote, a new iPhone application by startup Laffster, seeks to provide a better way to discover …
Continue ReadingAnnounced during National Cyber Security Awareness Month in October, Everloop — a social media site for kids under 13 — teamed up with security technology company McAfee to offer ongoing education on Internet Safety. Through McAfee’s Kids Educational Seminars, the …
Continue ReadingFor Fairport Lally Gagger owner Michael Lally, the GeekDad Sports World Series proved to be a stressful week of ups and downs. The veteran fantasy baseball owner had more appreciation for the close game than his next-generation partner. Eleven-year-old Erin’s …
Continue ReadingMagic Belles: Magic Music is an engaging iPad application that introduces young children to music composition while providing some pleasant background sounds for adults. Unlike the website activities Luma Creative launched a year ago, the touchscreen interaction lowers barriers for …
Continue ReadingJust in time for the stretch run of the 2012 Presidential campaign comes a new iPad game that teaches kids about the election process. Election: Run For President sets the stage one year before America votes to elect its next …
Continue ReadingEmergencyLink allows anyone to store and share emergency information. CEO Michael Soenen talks about his motivation for building a critical information service and why it will have such a bit impact on those in crisis.
Continue ReadingRather than embrace the benefits of a digitally-connected world, NBC and the Olympics fought against the modern world of social media and streaming video in restricting access to the games. One tech company, Boston-based Burst, has found a way …
Continue ReadingBy expanding the scope of user interaction and raising game animation to movie quality, Club Caveman hopes to elevate kids’ engagement with narrative and push the limits on what an iPad does with storytelling. Ben Sweat of Caffeine-Free talks about …
Continue ReadingExploring Calvin’s inner life with his pet stuffed tiger, Hobbes, is a foundational experience for geeks. Director Joel Schroeder spent five years trying to discover how a comic strip could have this kind of impact, explaining the Calvin and Hobbes …
Continue ReadingTeenagers in class at the end of a school year aren’t often thrilled to do things like critique Communism. For some lucky classrooms in southern California, a visit by KlabLab — a education platform that encourages learning through music — …
Continue ReadingAt the start of April, a call went out to sports-minded GeekDads asking them to join in a new community project: a fantasy baseball league. The first assignment was to have kid franchise owners brainstorm a name and logo for …
Continue ReadingStatistics are the foundation of a good fantasy league experience. While there are a number of complicated formulas that can tell us how good a player is, the trade-off for that level of precision is that the numbers become too …
Continue ReadingA TechBurst is a short, sharable video that explains a single educational concept in an entertaining and compelling way. Georgia Tech’s Center for 21st Century Universities (C21U) recently concluded their first TechBurst competition with an awards ceremony on April 16.
Continue ReadingIn 2004, a former hedge fund analyst began recording and posting videos of himself explaining some math techniques, posting the videos to YouTube. By 2012, Salman Khan had more than 3,000 lessons online, 140 million views, and a reputation as …
Continue ReadingIn the summer of 1985 while at at a two-week camp in Terre Haute, I met a media professor from Indiana State. He told me about a game his colleagues had been playing for a few years involving real football …
Continue ReadingIn the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love, according to Tennyson. By middle age, those thoughts expand to include things like baseball and cleaning the garage. For some geeks, it all coalesces into a large …
Continue ReadingStudy looks at how couples and gaming may, or may not, go together.
Continue ReadingOn New Year’s Eve, I finally got my access to Pinterest — the vision board-styled social photo sharing website — and have loved what it has added to my online experience. GeekMom wrote about their experiences with the website several …
Continue ReadingA Swedish hotel is helping its guests get closer to nature — by sleeping in trees. The Treehotel, located near the Lule river in Sweden, offers a handful of custom suites built above ground in the middle of the woods. …
Continue ReadingTeam members from Chaotic Moon Labs have devoted a chunk of their office hours recently to roaming the streets of Austin on a longboard. They are currently skating around the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, likely turning heads …
Continue ReadingActor Andy Garcia once portrayed a heart-of-gold businessman in Denver who had fatal dealings with a loan shark, the result of a desperate effort to save his expensive lifestyle and floundering company. The business model for “Afterlife Advice” involved archiving …
Continue ReadingEric Mazur is a professor of physics at Harvard. Like many successful academics, he was trained to teach in the same way he learned — standing in front of a room filled with students and lecturing them on the fundamentals …
Continue ReadingOur local credit union makes a habit of giving away a sheet of stickers when they notice kids in the car at the drive-thru. We long ago stopped fighting our boys’ creative desire to adorn their nearby windows with these …
Continue ReadingThe villainous Flashback lay quivering on the floor, still covered in the debilitating cheese from his last battle. Wormhole unsheathed the nib of his Cosmic Pen and drew a portal. In a shimmer, the fortress vault appeared on the other …
Continue ReadingA dad short of dough, trying to build things. A son making contraptions on his own. A man with an affinity for Elf culture. A kid strategizing how to get the perfect gift. A reclusive green grump with a knack …
Continue ReadingOne contender is a man in an elf suit. The other is a boy in a bunny suit. By the end of today, only one will survive to be declared the geekiest holiday movie character ever. This is the final …
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