I see dead places… or, to be accurate, I WANT to see dead places. Yup, that’s where I want to be sent with $10,000 in my pocket and $1000 in travel clothing. You can enter, too…… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

It’s a loud, loud world out there.  In a world where they can spend a million smackers to build a single mile of acoustic wall along highways, you know noise is a problem in the modern world.  You got your jackhammers, your freeways, your trains, cars, buses, lo-riding jerk weeds blasting music out of their four-wheel boom boxes . . . it’s loud.  Loud, I tell you!  And you!  Yeah, you!  Get off my lawn! Ahem. Anyway, Crescendo Hearing Protection wants to help.  They’ve got a full line of hearing protection items that cover a whole bunch of needs–musicians, industrial workers, and whatever else you can think of.  So if the blasting-sound nature of modern… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Last year at this time Sony unveiled a great fall sale – there were things for PS3 gamers, PSP gamers, and PSP Minis that worked on both systems. This year is pretty much the same … except without ANYTHING for PSP gamers. But as I have been told many times, I am just imagining that Sony treats their loyal PSP users like second class citizens. Anyway, here is the list from the Playstation Blog: Limbo (Sale price: $10.49; PS Plus price: $7.34; Regular price: $14.99) Might & Magic Clash Of Heroes (Sale price: $10.49; PS Plus price: $7.34; Regular price: $14.99) Outland (Sale price: $6.99; PS Plus price: $4.89; Regular Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Images: GoPro Ever wonder how producers are able to capture those awesome video shots that seem to put you right in the action? Simple, they have the right equipment (and, of course they eye and technical skill.) One such tool, the HD HERO, is a cool little camera that came on the market a few years ago and it has really taken the action and adventure world by storm. Developed by GoPro, this very compact unit is capable of recording video and still shots in high-definition and, while not the only sports camera on the market, it is the king when it comes to capturing all the best action. The HD HERO line of cameras are offered in packages tailored for the activity they will be used for such as Motorsports, Surf and Helmet, and the quality from this little camera is simply amazing.… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Last month I wrote about the impending release of Crazy Escape and the upcoming Corpse Granny, two cool looking releases from BulkyPix. Now both games are available on the iTunes App Store! Here is some info on Corpse Granny: In Corpse Granny, the player will have to use various weapons and tools to eradicate the terrible threat of the zombie granny and her innumerable minions. Take control of your arsenal: fireballs (red, blue, green and purple, each one with different powers), explosive boxes, bombs, giant rocks, cannonballs and more to destroy the onslaught of the undead. Use your fingertip to unleash the fireballs, press the cannon and platforms to unleash their own unique brand Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Here’s a great Gear Deal on a 15.6″ Dell Inspiron 15R Core i5-2330M that includes two awesome bonuses. The Inspiron 15r has a 2.2GHz Dual-core processor and includes 6GB RAM, a 500GB Hard Drive, Wireless-N, a DVD burner, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OS and more. To sweeten this deal you’ll also get a Canon ELPH 100 HS Camera (Grey), 36-months McAfee SecurityCenter and Adobe Elements 9.0 Photoshop and Premiere. Normally this bundle would be $777.99 but after all the savings our Gear Sponsor has found you can get it all for just $599.99 and it will even ship for free. Gear Deal: Dell Inspiron 15r 15.6″ with Canon ELPH 100 HS Camera and Adobe Elements Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Although I’m the official Old Fart of the Gear Diary team, even I am not old enough to remember when phones looked like the picture above.  Yeah, sure, I’m old enough to have grown up when houses had one phone and it was frequently attached to the kitchen wall; when “Please get the phone!” was a common cry, because there wasn’t a phone in every room (or every pocket) and phone answering machines (and software) hadn’t been invented yet.  Yes, I’m oooooooold. But I ain’t that old, kids. But still, I like this kind of retro stuff.  Would I use it?  I dunno, honestly, but I do like that it’s out there.  I’m not much… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

photo courtesy of The New York Times via Green Options  When I was a kid, if I didn’t eat enough I was told that should think about all of the “starving children around the world” and clean my plate. Granted, my feelings at the time were along the lines of how happy I would be to box up my leftovers and ship them off, but my parents did have a point. Just because we live in a country where food is more readily available than in other parts of the world does not give us license to waste it; it’s a sad fact that even in the United States we have plenty of… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

The description on the iTunes App Store is brief and to the point: “Thanksgiving Special: Gameloft’s Biggest Sale Ever, 20 iOS Games at $0.99!” And it IS a huge sale, so rather than blabbering on… here are the games: iPhone Fast Five the Movie: Official Game Sacred Odyssey: Rise of Ayden Starfront: Collision Shadow Guardian Eternal Legacy Real Golf 2011 Spider-Man: Total Mayhem Gameloft Action Pack Prince of Persia: Warrior Within Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction Zombie Infection Iron Man 2 Gameloft Sports Pack Rayman 2: The Great Escape James Cameron’s Avatar The Settlers Shrek Kart Assassin’s Creed: Altaïr’s Chronicles iPad Fast Five the Movie: Official Game Sacred Odyssey: Rise of Ayden Starfront: Collision Shadow Guardian Eternal Legacy Real Golf 2011 Spider-Man: Total Mayhem Prince of Persia: Warrior Within Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction Zombie Infection Iron Man 2 James Cameron’s Avatar The Settlers Shrek Kart Assassin’s Creed: Altaïr’s Chronicles Universal Silent Ops BackStab… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Unlike so many other ‘special sales’ events we seem to see every other week, Thanksgiving week is the legitimate start of the holiday shopping rush. We know that every retail store is opening way-too-early (Walmart is opening so early on Friday that it will still be Thursday!) to lose money on a few things in the hopes of making money on others. We are already seeing sales on games through the iTunes App Store as well. Now US Cellular has joined the sales push, with a special sale on smartphones – and also a great new $39.99 plan! Here are the details: Reward Yourself and Everyone on Your List with a Continue reading on Gear Diary …

G5 Entertainment is having a great sale to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday week – each day they are having a different game on sale for iPhone, iPad and Android. They have told us in advance which games will be on sale – but not which days! So you just have to check back at G5 home page each day! Here are the details: G5 Entertainment is holding a great Thanksgiving sale. During the week-long deal thirteen top G5 Games will drop in price. One Android and iOS title a day will be put on sale (only $0.99 for iPhone and $2.99 on iPad and Android devices). The precise dates of sale Continue reading on Gear Diary …

“Robot Santa will show you the real meaning of ‘Black Friday’.  Ho ho ho ho!” Look, don’t blame me, I’m only here to help! Yes, Black Friday is right around the corner.  I don’t know about you, but being both Jewish and the child of a messy divorce, I’m not a big fan of “the holiday season” (to me it’s more a holiday of “which parent am I going to disappoint this year?”, rather than “peace on earth, goodwill towards everyone”, ya know?).  I’m more like the folks in “Futurama”, dreading the coming of the Robot Santa, with his rocket launchers and exploding Christmas balls and whatnot. But it comes barreling down… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Welcome back to the GearGames weekly video game release feature here at Gear Diary! The contrast between the hundred plus releases last week and the couple of dozen this week shows that we are now in the slide into the holidays and the big releases are done. Well, almost – we have The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword for the Wii this week, which had been listed for last week on some sites. Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Assassin’s Creed Revelations, Saint’s Row: The Third, and Need for Speed: The Run! And those are just the ‘blockbusters’! There are a few other big games, such as Serious Sam 3: BFE, which is a prequel to the classic pure-fun shooter series. I loved the first two, but felt they stumbled with Serious Sam 2 by trying to be …well, too serious. There are other interesting releases like The King of Fighters XIII, as well as WWE ’12, as well as some others. Every platform has something worth checking this week – read on to find out!… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

With Black Friday on its way we thought we would do a few giveaways of awesome items we have reviewed. The deals this feel are good but the prices on these giveaway items are even better- FREE. So our first giveaway this week starts right now…    … Continue reading on Gear Diary …

This holiday season Nintendo DS games bring big fun to the compact, yet powerful console with several new games incorporating camera functions as well as other unique capabilities on the new Nintendo 3DS and existing XL, DSi, DS Lite and regular DS handheld consoles.