The Geek Church

Hey there, gamers, some of you have spent time playing music games such as Guitar Hero and Rock Band in the last several years. Of course, these games have been popular because they give you the chance to play along with and listen to many of the classic hits of your favorite musical artists. However, this gaming experience isn’t perfect. Gamers are basically playing through a simulation with large, plastic controllers designed to look like guitars. But this lacks authenticity for playing music during a game.

For those of you who want more realism in your music game experience, Seven45 Studios is ready to grant your wish. This company is a game developer that originated from a professional musical instruments manufacturer called First Act, who specializes in making instruments for newer musicians at the beginner’s level. Today, Seven45 Studios announced their new creation called Power Gig: Rise of the Six String. It is a music game that uses real guitars for gameplay.

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The trend of portable technology continues to grow in popularity, causing devices like the cellphone to keep getting smaller. Let’s consider the evolution of the phone in the last few decades. Once, it was just a basic, land-line unit with cords of limited length and then the cordless phone was created. After that, the development of the cellphone came and most units have been about the size of small two-way walkie talkies. Now phones have gotten even smaller.

Take a moment to imagine a cellphone being the size of a portable mirror. That’s what Qiao Sheng has recently developed. They call it the A45. The device comes in a high lacquered finish and has a display which can be rotated through 180 degrees. The phone’s display is a 2.2” mirror-sized touch screen and the device has a user interface. Furthermore, the A45 is also equipped with a camera that uses 3 Megapixels. Unfortunately, there wasn’t information available at this time concerning the price of this new product.

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Listen up, readers, I’ve got two questions for you! Are you a soldier or a soldier at heart? Does the thought of being on a battlefield, crawling through the dirt with an M-16 rifle in your hand and bullets flying all around excite you? If you answered yes to either question, then you could be an army enthusiast. Now, how about having the right set of speakers to survive in a combat situation?

Well, Thodio has just the product for you. Three years ago, this company developed handcrafted speakers called the “iBox”. It was a nice-looking amplifier for your iPod made from wood. This device has a rechargeable battery that can run for fifteen hours and its two speakers use twenty-five watts each. The amplifier was available for $530. However, since 2007 Thodio has designed a new model that has much appeal for people with a passion for the military.

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Right now, I’m wearing iFrogz CS40 headphones, and I am liking them. They are the cushioned kind, and they got some good sound.

Some of you may not have ever heard of iFrogz, but they have some good stuff. I already have looked at one of their iPod covers, and they have some pretty quality merchandise.

I wrote a review on the headphones, that you can read here.

Clearly, this is an MP3 Player that doesn’t seem to understand that the iPod rules the market, and the portable music is the way to go.

As it is, the DoDoNa S-100 a 1.1 inch OLED display, an integrated loudspeaker, 4GB of internal memory, an FM radio, as well as support for MP3, WMA, OGG, and FLAC formats. It can play for 8 hours through the speaker, and 15 hours of playback via headphones. By the way, it costs about $167.

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A recent report from a Sony Executive has stated that 30 to 50 percent of all the TVs it sells from 2012 on will be 3D-enabled.

This comes as no shock to me, as every company from last January’s CES seemed to have a 3D TV that they were boasting about.

Assuming the world doesn’t end by that 2012 era, I suppose we’ll be living in an age for 3D soon.

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I suppose that it’s nice to have a night light, and if you are going to have one, you might as well have one that can charge your iPod.

The Scosche reviveLITE is a little box that can plug into the wall and charge the iPod, but it also has a light on it, complete with on and off switch. Yes, I’m sure that will come in handy for all sorts of things. You can read my full review of it here.

Sure, most of us use iPods and iPhones, and they do run out of power at terrible times, don’t they? Griffin has a solution to this dilemma with two products, the Power Duo Reserve and the iTrip Auto.

The Power Duo Reserve is just a back-up battery that can connect to an outlet of a car’s dash lighter. Once you charge it up, you can connect it to your iPod and iPhone whenever you need some extra power. As for the iTrip Auto, this is designed to connect to the car’s in-dash lighter so it can sync wirelessly with your car’s stereo.

I had a chance to try them out, and they are some pretty terrific products. You can read the full review here.

I’ve been reviewing a lot of Sharper Image products of late, and several of them have been designed for the iPod or MP3 Player. This one is designed to be used in the bathroom. Actually, it comes in two parts. The dock for the MP3 player stays in one room and transmits to the mirror speaker in another room. The mirror is waterproof, so it keeps the user’s MP3 Player safe. I had a chance to try it out for myself, and you can read my review of its ups and downs here.

Take a gander at this home projector. It is a little different than most projectors that you see, because it isn’t horrendously expensive. Granted, it is only set up to connect with a DVD player or video game system with it, but it is quite easy to use. It even has a nice remote control for volume, contrast, and color.

Supposedly, it is designed to work from six feet away, and is good for a projection of…90 inches! Seems a little big of a diagonal to me, and I tried it out. You can read about this experience here.