The newest iteration of the NBA 2k series includes a feature called “NBA Today” that includes daily updates from events happening in real world NBA games. How teams and individual players perform on the court affects the video game commentary, performance and stats of individual athletes.

For those with family members unskilled in the dozens of photo-sharing services online or those that prefer hard copies of photos, there is now a solution to upload and automatically mail loved ones your recent snapshots. Picwing will [...]

Poken is a new toy that attempts to bridge the gap between online and offline play. It’s a plastic creature, in the form of a panda or bumblebee or three-eyed monster, that transfers social networking information via ‘high-fives’ (and RFID). After making new friends face-to-face, kids can bust out their RFID-enabled keychains and instantly exchange their online identity details through a poken-to-poken high five. After the exchange, users then connect their toy to a computer via USB, where they can download the info onto poken’s database, which helps them manage and distribute the new data on the user’s social networking [...]