An engineered gravity is in place, and triangles, circles, squares, and other strange non-symmetrical shapes are picked up with one’s thumb and placed on the fixed geometric shapes below the dotted line. Placing a circle on a triangle’s edge that is angled down, and the circle will fall down the slope and off the screen, or imaginary ledge.

The object of “Perfect Balance: Lost Trials” is simple: place all of the shapes below the dotted line without any falling off of the screen, as the suspenseful daredevil music thrills, like a horror movie bordering on a splatter of the fallen.

There is a free version of “Perfect Balance: Lost Trials” App and a Gold version for $.99. This game is an extraordinarily challenging one that can become addictive in a very little amount of sand falling down the hourglass. Fighting gravity is a very real predicament that is not easily overcome in real life, or in the balance of this game!

Grade: A-

Perfect Balance: Lost Trials

The internet is buzzing with news about the Beamer, an iPhone case with a built-in light from Quirky. With the looks of it, it seems like it’s the first of its kind. I actually tried googling the term “iPhone case with built-in flash” and a site bout the Beamer came on top.

The built-in light is primarily used a flash so you can take better photos in a dim environment. The built-in light can also be used as a flash light as well when you’re in the dark.

It’s fairly easy to use. Press the button switch once, and the light will be on for 10 seconds. That’s enough time for you to be able to take a photo. Press the button twice in a row and the light will be on indefinitely until you turn it off, by pressing the button the third time.

The Beamer uses replaceable Lithium coin batteries and boasts of 10 hours worth of illumination. It comes in a variety of colors from boring black to hot pink, so people of all ages with an iPhone can actually use this iPhone case.

There are only 500 units available for pre-order so pre-order now at Quirky. Beamer iPhone case has a retail price of $32.

The revolutionary sound system has arrived! It has a name, it has a subwoofer, it has tweeters, it has wireless-integrated technology, it has superior sound, it has pure qualitative quality: it is the Sonos “ZonePlayer S5” music system.

In an age that has adopted digital music, the Sonos “ZonePlayer S5” cannot be overlooked, or go unheard! Sonos makes listening to digital music simple. For a party, turn on the “ZonePlayer S5,” and control the swinging songs via an iPhone or computer that is safely stashed away from the swaying party dancers and the clumsy fraternizers.

Sonos seems to bring to its company many of the amazing attributes that have made Apple so successful over the decades, minimalist design, functionality, quality, innovative technology and intuitiveness. As one opens the “ZonePlayer S5” packaging, that same mystique surrounding the minimal but attractive packaging of any Mac product takes over…yet it’s a Sonos.

The music player is sleek and small measuring less than nine inches tall, less than 15 inches wide and less than five inches from front to back; it fits almost anywhere. The “ZonePlayer S5” is a shining silvery gray, reminiscent of MacBook Pros and iMacs, and the minimalist design echoes the distinctive speaker set-up within, which contains five speakers: two tweeters, two speakers and a subwoofer.

There is no need to hook up a mp3 player or iPod to the Sonos music system, because the Sonos integrated program, for Mac’s and Pc’s, will allow a listener to access any music folder that is on a computer network, or iPhone. Simply install the software and plug in either a “ZonePlayer S5,” or a Sonos “ZoneBridge” to a router via an Ethernet cable (which is provided). The software disc quickly logs a user into the network and projects the listener’s music to the “ZonePlayer S5” (which is also backwards compatible with all Sonos products).

Once the “Sonos Controller” App is downloaded for free in the Apple Store, the iPhone, or iPod Touch, becomes a customizable remote control. One can access all of the music from the network, make play-lists, tweet their friends, change the volume, or access Internet radio from the palm of the hand (all of this can be done from a computer also).

Sign in to Pandora Radio, and listen to high quality customized radio stations for free on the Sonos “ZonePlayer S5” seamlessly. The Sonos Player is preprogrammed with Pandora Radio, and the album art from Eric Clapton’s “After Midnight Live” album will leap onto a display, along with the song title, song length, artist, and Pandora radio station name.

As a recommendation, the Sonos “ZoneBridge” is a near necessity to have with the “ZonePlayer S5,” as it allows one to take the player anywhere. The tiny four inch square device, the Sonos “ZoneBridge,” is an additional $99, and without it there has to be at least one S5 player hooked up to an Ethernet cable from a router (essentially keeping the player by the router); the entire Sonos system is based on this wireless technology. Though it might seem a drawback, with a single “ZoneBridge” in place, all of the actual players are then free to roam anywhere there is space and an open outlet.

The extraordinary tunes that soar from this unique surround-sound-like device cannot be put into words. The Sonos engineers put all of the necessary home audio components into a single cabinet design with the “ZonePlayer S5” and the result is a home run! The music sings, as though Sonos wishes to battle with Bose for speaker superiority, for the S5 has outstanding sound that stuns.

Where one player is a must have, two or more “ZonePlayer S5” devices is an effective way to provide top-notch audio throughout the home, without the mess of speaker wires, audio components, or even audio cables, because its completely wireless. It is true that the Sonos “ZonePlayer S5” is a bit pricey, retailing at $399, but this pays back tenfold once it is up and running, five minutes after opening the box. It is of the highest quality sound, and if one has a family, or multiple spaces where different music needs to play then multiple S5’s will truly provide a priceless experience.

When the Sonos “ZonePlayer S5” is in multiple rooms, then any iPhone or computer logged in to the Sonos devices can access all of the vast treasures of music and Internet radio. One can control the volume and songs of each room, individually, so go ahead and control an entire house, castle, mansion, or backyard with the palm of a hand!

Grade: A

For some reason, I love getting new laptop bags. I’m not sure if it’s an organization obsession of mine or what, but I have easily 5 bags to carry my MacBook Pro, and easily five different reasons why each one is the best. Recently though, I picked up a new bag for my MBP, this Nylon Sleeve from incase.

I’ve been a fan of incase and their products since I first bought a neoprene sleeve for my 13-inch MacBook when I was first getting into Macs. The fuzzy lined inside keeps the laptop nice and safe, plus it looks cool and artsy like I’m someone important like a designer or a writer.

I bought the graphite model, just like the one pictured above, and it has a nice, fuzzy, blue liner on the inside as well. The pockets on the front are a welcome improvement to the previous year’s model, and have a solid zipper that protects two pockets. It’s enough to hold my power supply, pens, USB drives, a pocket recorder, mouse and various display adaptors, which means it’s perfect to use when getting on a plane or going to the coffee shop. Now, I wouldn’t use it as an overnight bag or anything, but it is my go-to bag for the MacBook Pro, and that’s saying a lot for me.

Of course, you may be a backpack case guy, or a neoprene sleeve girl, and I respect your decisions. But for me – for now – this is a great case that works out pretty well.

incase Nylon Sleeve

There is a game app going around in cyberspace called Lose/Lose and it is very similar to Space Invaders, but with a deadly twist.

When you shoot and kill alien, the game deletes a file from your computer.

The creator of this game app is Zach Gage, a digital artist from New York. I don’t understand what he was thinking when he created this app, but he included a philosophical view about the game in the Lose/Lose website.

“By way of exploring what it means to kill in a video-game, Lose/Lose broaches bigger questions. As technology grows, our understanding of it diminishes, yet, at the same time, it becomes increasingly important in our lives. At what point does our virtual data become as important to us as physical possessions? If we have reached that point already, what real objects do we value less than our data? What implications does trusting something so important to something we understand so poorly have?” – Lose/Lose

Whew. Heavy. Download the game AT YOUR OWN RISK, though I don’t really recommend it as it may contain other security threats like viruses or malware. But if you’re formatting your computer, you can probably try it out as you have nothing else to lose.

Symantec has already added the game to its list of potential security threat and has identified it as OSX.Loosemanque.