Mico Headphones Select Music For Your Mood We recently talked about ambient intelligence here at Geek, and I thought I was so freaking clever joking how Pandora always plays guilty pleasure music at inopportune times. Ha! Music selection connected to what’s going on, it’s almost like Pandora is sentient! New Mico headphones from Neurowear will…
I’m not sure why educational games are the unloved, unpopular side of the games industry. Beloved classic PC game Oregon Trail is an edu title, and it’s still very playable today. A recent Facebook version from Blue Fang shows how much love and nostalgia early players still have for it. Educational games might not get…
A Text-Based Space Adventure in ‘Star Captain’ Choice of the Star Captain is a new text-based adventure for iOs, Android or web browsers. In this ChoiceScript game, players take on the role of a young pilot, recruited for a special secret mission for StratComm in the space battle of humans versus Blob. Players quickly discover that…
Good indie games can be easy to miss. With a bajilllion (That’s the highly technical games journalist term!) new games appearing on the App Store and Google Play every day, it can be hard to even keep up with the blockbusters. Smaller game studios or indie games don’t have the marketing push that major publishers…
A few nights ago, I went to New York Gaming’s February games demo, held at Microsoft. NY Gaming regularly puts on great networkers and professional development classes too, but the monthly games demo is my favorite. It’s always exciting to see what my NYC neighbors are producing, and usually the atmosphere feels more like a…
Zombies. Puppets. Musical. What else do you need to know? Mistfit Heights is a zombie puppet musical. Yes, you read that right, and yes, it’s as awesomely bizarre as you would imagine. We love zombies here at Geek Insider (we use zombies to exercise! We have so many zombie apps we had to narrow them…
Click To Hook Up in Bang With Friends Bang With Friends is a new Facebook add-on allowing users to choose which friends they’d like to hook up with. When two friends mutually select each other as hookups, they’re alerted to the match without any of that flirting or drink-buying of an old-fashioned date. Selection is…
SticknFind, debuting at CES from StickNFind technologies, uses a tiny bluetooth sticker and a connecting locating app to save us all those minutes we waste in the morning looking for keys, wallets, phones, and other essentials that seem to wander off. A Bluetooth Sticker That Finds Your Stuff Slap a small StickNFind sticker on anything…
The Facebook Diet by Gemini Adams promises to highlight all the hilarious and strange things in the world of Facebook. I was excited to read this because Facebook’s ability to connect distant friends has brought so many odd and amusing moments to my life. A cosplaying college friend recently posted photos from a con, with…
The Chinese MMORPG studio Mechanist Games have been quietly at work on a browser MMO ‘City of Steam’ for about two years, and recently announced plans for Reality Squared Games to publish the English version. We’ve been following the development of this narrative-focused steampunk game for a while now, and hope the connections with R2 Games will help bring…
Field Trip: New Pop-Up Location Based Guide for Android Niantic Labs’ new Field Trip app, now available for Android, is a pop-up location-based guide to interesting things all round you. This augmented reality guide would allow you to walk down an unfamiliar street, and to immediately access and know what others already know about that…