Matt Paligaru
Emerging Technology
A technology nut at heart, I'm always interested in what makes our lives easier and helps us tick day to day. Whether Home Automation, toys, games (board and video) or everything in between, I'm always looking around the corner to see what drives us in today's day and age.
A technology nut at heart, I'm always interested in what makes our lives easier and helps us tick day to day. Whether Home Automation, toys, games (board and video) or everything in between, I'm always looking around the corner to see what drives us in today's day and age.
Help improve your golf game with the Arccos Golf GPS and Stat Tracker!
Golfers are always interested in tightening up their games and making them that much better. Fortunately, for your budding PGA Tour Pro (or yourself,) there’s the Arccos Golf GPS and Stat Tracker, now available at Best Buy. Use the Arccos to monitor your golfing progress (so you don’t have to) and have it measure your distances, greens in regulation and so many other things that you never thought you’d need to know. Come take a look!
Review: The newer and smaller Insteon Hub
We’ve covered Insteon products here before, including the original hub last year. This year, Insteon has a new hub that provides the same in-house product support, along with promising easier setup than the original hub. However, if you’ve already got the old Insteon Hub, and some of the old x10 products that the first one supported, is it worth upgrading to the new hardware? Read on to find out.
Review: Nintendo takes a trip down memory lane with the NES Remix games
With every passing Nintendo gaming generation, it’s not unusual to see original NES titles up for sale in the respective console’s eShop. Usually, however, all you get is the old game itself with no bells and whistles. The recently released NES Remix disc version (the WiiU games were originally available in the eShop) change things up a bit. You get bits and pieces of these NES games put into objective/challenge form, and a few new twists and turns too.
Review: The CronusMax lets you use cross controllers to different consoles!
It’s a neat concept – Using your Xbox One controller on your PS4, or maybe using your 360 controllers on your Xbox One. As one of the few people out there that still prefer the feel of the Xbox 360 controller to the Xbox One, I was a big fan of this idea as one of the few that prefer the feel of the 360 controller. The CronusMax is just the device that lets you do that. Come take a look at this powerful little device that’s no bigger than a flash drive.
Why are the “Toys to Life” video games so popular?
You might never have heard the term “Toys to Life” but it’s the sub-category of the games your kids are asking you for: The Skylanders, the amiibo and the Disney Infinitys of the world. These games have taken flight over the last 3 years and have turned into a multi-billion dollar industry. In fact, the Skylanders franchise has moved so many games and figures over that period that it’s now one of the most profitable video gaming franchises in history. What’s behind the appeal of these for not just kids, but adults too? Let’s take a look at some of the possibilities.
Review: Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker pays respect to a forgotten genre
I’m a puzzle game nerd from a young age. I used to rent all the puzzle games I could get my hands on as a kid, and would spend hours in the summer borrowing my neighbour’s Game Boy puzzle carts. In the last decade or so, there haven’t been a lot of games out there that have interested in me, but Braid gave me hope that there was still good left in the puzzle-adventure genre. Nintendo’s Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker is another title hoping to do that too. Let’s take a look.
Review: LEGO Batman 3 goes outside Gotham City Limits into space!
LEGO Batman 2 was an interesting game to me. It wasn’t the most polished title, but featured some of my favorite things in the series yet. The first LEGO Batman was the first of the line of games I 100%’d, and I definitely remember the summer I spent (having recently been laid off from my job) disposing of baddies in between my job search. The third game is here now, and I was hoping for a lot of the same. Does it deliver? Let’s take a look.
Light up your life (and home!) with Belkin’s new WeMo Smart Lighting system
For the past couple of years, Belkin has been slowly but surely growing their line of WeMo products. The Smart Lighting system is a new addition to the mix, and is a little different than the others. While most WeMo products communicate directly with the app, the bulbs communicate through a centralized plugged in cube (called the “Link”) and works from there. It’s way easier to set up than it sounds, and it’s now available at Best Buy. Come check it out!
Review: Why Super Smash Bros for Nintendo Wii U is the best one yet
Every Nintendo generation since the Nintendo 64 has had a Smash Bros game, and they’ve all been fan favourites so far. I didn’t play the Wii version, but really enjoyed the N64 and Gamecube games, and of course, the Nintendo 3DS one when it came out last month. But, through all those, the Nintendo Wii U is the best one yet, and has to be right there for Wii U Game of the Year consideration. Check it out.
Bringing Nintendo gaming alive like never before with amiibo
It was one of Nintendo’s most well received ideas of E3 2014 – The amiibo, a series of bite sized figurines for use with your Nintendo systems, and specifically for Super Smash Bros. They’re finally here, and they’re pretty neat to get into, so let’s take a look!
