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Nicholas Deleon
November 12th, 2010

Killing Time: How Many Of These 25 Bad Tech Habits Apply To You?

Entrepreneur has a list of 25 “bad” habits that you, the technology fan, may find yourself running up against. How many of these apply to you? → Read More

Nicholas Deleon
October 22nd, 2010

Apply For Your Geek Card Here

Lists may be utterly pointless, but on a Friday where the biggest tech news is Wayne Rooney’s new contract with Manchester United, hey, they fill a void. TechRepublic has a list of 10 things that will result in the REVOCATION~! of your Geek Card. I think I lost my card at E3. Number 10: Admitting you like iTunes. This is true: any geek worth his salt should be using foobar2000. Well, if you’re… → Read More

Nicholas Deleon
May 14th, 2010

PC Gamer's 'best PC games of all time' list is the worst thing you'll read, possibly ever

Oh, it’s on. PC Gamer, one of the last gaming magazines out there, has put together what it considers to be the best PC games of all time with the help of its readers. Of all time—let that sink in. OK? Then can you explain to me how in the hell Modern Warfare 2 is the sixth best PC game of all time? This could be the worst list I’ve ever seen. → Read More

John Biggs
November 7th, 2009

Services made flesh: 10 weird – and not so weird – "avatar" gadgets

The dawn of the 21st century brought us a problem: we had lots of data, but no real way to bring that data into the real world. We could feasibly lug laptops and phones around, but did they ever do exactly what we needed them to do? Don’t answer that.

Manufacturers, in their wisdom, decided to do something about it and so devices like the Peek – for email – and the CueCat – for nothing – were… → Read More

Nicholas Deleon
December 16th, 2008

Consumer Reports' Top 5 Smartphones list mentions neither the iPhone 3G nor G1

Say hello to the worst list you’ll read all day. It’s Consumer Reports’ idea of the Top 5 Smartphones, and I think you’ll agree that it misses the mark. There’s the Samsung Blackjack II, the T-Mobile Wing, the Motorola Q9C, the T-Mobile Shadow and the BlackBerry Pearl Flip. I’m not lying when I say that I’ve heard of, at most, like two of those phones, and… → Read More

Nicholas Deleon
December 12th, 2008

Man alive, 15 Xbox mods that are marginally impressive!

Oh, lists. Nothing is quite as boring as the “Top 10 Who Cares of Current Year.” (Speaking of which, we’re wrapping up our own end-of-the-year lists right now. Look for them next week!) Speaking of lists, Unreality Magazine, which seems to be where lists go to die (“Most Soul Sucking Video Games,” “Best Movie Gunfights,” “Memorable Movie Psychopaths” “Best Lists About Movie… → Read More

Nicholas Deleon
November 3rd, 2008

How to ease your girlfriend into liking beer (plus bonus grammar challenge!)

I’d say 90 percent of the staff here is one weekend bender away from a one-way trip to the Betty Ford Center. But beer doesn’t merely ruin lives, no sir. It can, apparently, ruin relationships, too! That is, unless you follow the advice of The Frisky, a new women’s site that was just brought to my attention. They’ve put together a list of 10 so-called “gateway beers*”… → Read More

Doug Aamoth, Contributor
November 1st, 2008

Peek E-mail Device tops TIME’s Gadget of the Year poll

The results are in for TIME Magazine’s Gadget of the Year poll and the Peek E-mail Device has been rated highest by TIME readers, taking the top spot. It beat out the iPod Touch, the Eye-Fi SD Card, the Flip Mino, and the T-Mobile G1. I reviewed the Peek in September and found it to work well but wondered if it’d be able to gain any traction in a world full of affordable smartphones. Well… → Read More

Doug Aamoth, Contributor
September 24th, 2008

SmartShopper digital list maker gets $50 price drop

Back in July of 2007, some of you may recall that your good buddy Doug wrote a post about the $150 SmartShopper device titled SmartShopper Needs $147 Price Drop to be Competitive, wherein I compared the utility of a device that voice-records your shopping list to that of a $3 pad of paper from OfficeMax. My general position was that $150 was too much to pay for something that keeps a list of… → Read More

Nicholas Deleon
September 3rd, 2008

Miyamoto, other tech folk make Vanity Fair's New Establishment list

Photo from Wired Vanity Fair, the fanciest trashy magazine there is, has publishedwhat is calls “The New Establishment,” a list of 100 of the top movers and shakers across all industries. It’s essentially a “who’s hot now” list, but since it’s Vanity Fair, all the Manhattan media types will be fawning over the ranking. Drudge has the full list in an… → Read More

Nicholas Deleon
May 19th, 2008

CrunchArcade: Highly unreadable list of the best PSP games you've never heard of

You know the short story (and novel) Flowers for Algernon? You know, the one where the guy WROTE IN ALL CAPS instead of using quotation marks like a learned man? This list of the “best PSP games you’ve never heard of” totally reminds me of it. The games, for the record, are Chili Con Carnage, Work Time Fun and Crush. Take this description for Chili Con Carnage: This game has… → Read More

Nicholas Deleon
May 16th, 2008

The laser turns 48 years young today

Let freedom ring The laser turns 48 today! (Just as important, if not more so: It’s also Megan Fox’s birthday. She turns 22.) Crazy! To celebrate this, Wired has put together a list of some of its best laser-related stories, everything from laser-etched iPhones to 100 kW Naval weapons. No, it’s nothing to get too excited over, but perhaps you have nothing better to do on this… → Read More

Nicholas Deleon
April 27th, 2008

CrunchArcade: 11 ways to tell you're no longer a hardcore gamer

Flickr’d What happens when former hardcore gamers stop being so hardcore? They make lists explaining the demise of their hardcore-ness, of course! So, how do you tell that you’re no longer a hardcore gamer? • You prefer playing against the computer. • You only play when your girlfriend is out • You believe that winning isn’t everything • It’s been days… → Read More

Nicholas Deleon
April 3rd, 2008

Blast Knuckles self-defense accessory delivers 1.9 million volts (!?)

Raiden? Cracked.com went out of business in 2010 for being too funny for its own good. But one time, in 2008, it came up with a list of safety-themed gadgets that no self-respecting someone would be caught dead without. You wouldn’t be dead because you had these gadgets to defend yourself, obviously. I’ll mention only one here, these Blast Knuckles, because the name alone actually, in… → Read More

Nicholas Deleon
January 21st, 2008

Time-killing list: Top 25 tech flops

[photopress:topflopsss.jpg,full,right] It’s a federal holiday today so you can look forward to a whole lot of soft news: predictions, explanations, funny videos that serve no real purpose and, my favorite, lists. And golly gee, here’s a list of the top 25 tech flops, as compiled by InfoWorld. Highlights—or should I say lowlightslol—include virtual reality, Gnu Hurd, the… → Read More

John Biggs
January 14th, 2008

CES Leavings: The things they carried

I was planning on posting this last week but Hickey didn’t send back his list so I decided to add my own. Essentially, I thought it would be cool to see what the CG crew was carrying during CES, offering a glimpse into the one-man-band that is a professional blogger these days. Take a look at our list and give us some recommendations for better/lighter/cooler gear to carry in the future. → Read More

December 31st, 2007

The year 2007 according to TechCrunch

Big Daddy is rounding up the year with, what else, lists documenting the most popular articles, heavy hitting stories and those who entered the dreaded deadpool in the past year. Whether you’re into the whole Web 2.0 craze or not, it may be a good idea just to peruse the headlines to see if anything tickles your fancy and see what’s actually going on in the World Wide Web. → Read More

December 28th, 2007

Amazon's 'best of 2007' list

In case you were wondering who the best sellers for 2007 were on Amazon then I have some news for you. The Nintendo Wii curb stomped everyone else in ‘Video Games’. The Canon PowerShot A570IS was the best selling ‘electronics’ gadget and the Nokia “Internet Tablet PC” championed the ‘Computers’ section, though it’s unclear which model… → Read More

Nicholas Deleon
December 17th, 2007

List time: The top 15 tech disappointments of 2007 (or so says PC World)

The year 2007 will soon draw to a close, meaning we’ll be seeing plenty of year-end retrospectives on every Web site in Creation. I don’t expect many of them to be worth the time of day, yet this one—the year’s top tech disappointments, as ranked by PC World —is more or less on point. I’m sure you’re familiar with all of them, not least of which because… → Read More

Doug Aamoth, Contributor
December 13th, 2007

Zune, Apple TV make Popular Mechanics' worst-of-the-year list

What are some of the worst gadgets from this past year, according to Popular Mechanics? You’ll be delighted and/or outraged to know that the Zune and Apple TV made the list. The Pleo dinosaur thing also made the list even though it’s not out yet, along with the non-existent Palm Foleo, the creepy looking rabbit monster on the left there, and a myriad of home improvement tools and… → Read More

Nicholas Deleon
July 5th, 2007

Edge's Top 100 Games: The Top 10 Was More Believable

I tried to find this month’s Edge magazine in my local Barnes & Noble, but it just wasn’t meant to be. Of course, I was looking for it to read the rest of its top 100 games of all time list, but at least the Guardian did all the heavy lifting for me. We already know the top 10, so here are the other 90. Yes, these lists are useless and are designed just to draw eyeballs, but… → Read More

Ken Sander, Contributor
April 23rd, 2007

SmartShopper USA SS-101 Hands On

For years, we have all dreamed of kitchen appliances we could talk to. “Stove, make me some chicken. Microwave, popcorn please.” But what about a tiny device that keeps the whole family on their toes by offering a central message pad and shopping list for the whole gang? The SmartShopper SS-101 helps you create a shopping list that’s completely error proof. In the simplest terms, the… → Read More

Seth Porges, Contributor
March 5th, 2007

The All-Time Five Greatest In-Movie Video Games

Hollywood and video games have an interesting history. Long before it became standard procedure to turn every movie into a video game and every video game into a movie, the game’s place in film was more of an object of mystery, fear, and curiosity then a mere marketing tie-in. In film, the ability to control pixels tapped into our fears of a machine-dominated future and our dreams of being… → Read More