Mario Kart 7
Nintendo 3DS With limited single-player appeal, multiplayer madness remains the name of the game for Mario Kart 7. Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Wii Just when everyone gets ready to dismiss Wii for its recent lack of high quality games, Nintendo goes and releases a high quality game. Go figure. LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars
PlayStation 3, Wii, Windows PC, Xbox 360 LEGO plus videogames, the Reese's Peanut Butter cups of digital entertainment, the benevolent cash cow concept that just keeps giving. What's not to like? Alice: Madness Returns
PlayStation 3 This is what happens when a lovable demented visionary takes over someone else's lovable demented vision. Alice: Madness Returns. L.A. Noire
PlayStation 3 In the pantheon of game publishing gods, Rockstar Games is not only among them, but now sits incontestably as top deity thanks to the Grand Theft Auto maker's latest opus, L.A. Noire.

PS Vita
Handheld, PS Vita Sony continues to miss the mark with yet another ambitiously conceived, poorly implemented, over-engineered and under realized electronic paperweight, the PlayStation Vita, the consummate 'trophy device.' Privia PX-130 Digital Piano
Hardware, iPad, Macintosh, Windows PC While the calming qualities of a harpsichord are forever lost to history, if they ever existed, Shaun Conlin otherwise finds the Privia PX-130 a pretty good digital piano. Boxee Box by D-Link
AV, High-Def, Television Most likely, Boxee Box by D-Link will fulfill all your streaming media and home-ripped movie-watching needs. It's cool like that. StreamHD Wireless USB PC to HDTV Adapter
AV, High-Def, Television, TV Plug-n-Play, Windows PC Wouldn't it be cool if you could plug your laptop into your HDTV but not have a bunch of wires and cables dangling all over the place? Oh wait, you can. BT-860 Stereo Bluetooth Headset
Audio, Hardware, iPad, iPhone Shaun Conlin takes a look at the new bluetooth stereo headset from Nu Force, going so far as to step on a treadmill to see if they'll fall off. Now that's dedication.

10 Obscure facts about Ford
  Seeing as Ford Motor Company can celebrate the sesquicentennial of it's founder, the late Henry Ford, Shaun Conlin thinks it's equally fitting to celebrate some equally obscure facts about Ford. Safe teen drivers with helicopter parent apps
  While we're still a generation away from seeing the effects of helicopter parenting on today's teens, at least there are apps that ensure they'll get there in one piece. Car buyers respond to computerized doting, study
  In a post Enron world, the affluent continue to buy expensive cars, more so if their brand of choice sends them a text saying 'buy me because you're awesome' according to a new study. Comments on car safety comments
  The NHTSA is considering some changes to how they do safety ratings on new cars, and it wants public input (at its own peril).