The Geek Church

Hope you had a good day off, because it’s time for the tech round-up!

For those of you who want a more rugged camera, you might want to look into the Medion Life S47000.

The HTC Touch Pro2 will be available from Sprint, as well as Verizon Wireless.

Speaking of HTC, they plan to release the Tattoo, a smartphone that runs Android.

You know that ugly power strip that you have by your desktop PC? How would you like to replace it with something better, like this concept Power Bridge?

Gamers might like something I saw at PAX called the SteelSeries Merc Stealth Gaming Keyboard.

Having trouble losing or leaving gadgets behind? Tag them with the Nio Security system.

Did you hear about the new Touchsmart Printers from HP? Believe it or not, there will be apps for them at the HP Touchsmart App Store.

While I was at PAX, I began to notice a trend in free to play games. If you are not familiar with that concept, it is essentially when companies offer a game that is completely free.

And when I say free, it isn’t like you download the game and it says: “Thank you for downloading the game, please pay $XX to this PayPal address to proceed further.” This is a process in which the user buys the game, and is totally free to play it. It is only certain aspects of the game, which are not required to “beat” the game, are for sale.

For example, if you want your player to wear a new outfit, all you need to do is lay down some real cash instead of “gamer gold”. Also, if you want to skip to a higher level without all the work, you can pay some real cash and get there.

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