For too long BaDoink and other adult-friendly types have bemoaned the total dearth of assistance from the mainstream when it comes to making money from the grand ol’ art of fucking. If you’re in the biz and reading this then cast your minds back and […]
A few weekends ago, I nearly had to pry a smartphone from the swiping fingers of a friend. We were in a bar, once thought to be a merry social environment, and he was transfixed by the addictive glow of Tinder, unable to extricate himself. […]
If you’re a porn fan, you probably remember Bree Olson for her very successful six-year career as a porn star. If you’re at least mildly into pop culture, you also probably remember her for being one of Charlie Sheen’s live-in “goddesses” during his very public […]
I do love a good success story! And when it comes to a good success story, this one is fuckin’ fabulous. As a long time fan of famed Internet cartoonist, Matthew Inman aka The Oatmeal, I’ve followed all his exploits online and his successful crowdfunding […]
Amidst all the chaos in the world, it’s nice to see something genuinely awesome and silly explode into the world. That thing is the new ridiculous card game Exploding Kittens, a brilliantly inventive party game that’s taken the Internet by storm, overwhelming the Kickstarter-verse with […]
For the longest time Pebble smartwatch sat atop its throne as the highest funded Kickstarter campaign ever – only to be beat by the newest kid on the block, The Coolest. What is this ingenious device that could knock off Pebble from its lofty throne? […]
By the time you read this, LeVar Burton’s Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to develop his Reading Rainbow program will be over. At the time of writing, his campaign has raised over USD 4.7m; that’s a whole lot more than the original USD 1m they […]
Have you been to a work lunch and found everybody staring at smartphones? Easter Sunday dinner and even Grandma is staring into the iPad the kids gave her for Christmas? Everywhere you go: People looking at their smartphones. One nation under its own thumb! But […]
I’ve been writing about Kickstarter a lot. Here’s a product that isn’t still in a state of research or experimental no-man’s-land. It passed through Kickstarter with flying colors, has paid back investors and is, dare I be so bold, American and totally cool! The Touchfire […]
I used to work at an ad agency writing copy, I had an earthy, no-nonsense, chunky-but-sweet boss. A boondocks girl from Nebraska, she asked for and gave no quarter in a cruel business world and had only one weakness, her aquamarine-eyed, black-haired, pretty-boy husband who […]
Here at BaDoink, we take our principal tenets of lifestyle, sex and technology very, very seriously, but we also like to have a damn good laugh too. What better, then, than to find a project that combines ALL of those things? I know, it seems […]
The big news out of Austin’s cutting-edge SXSW music fest and convention out of Austin, Texas, was the announcement on March 15, 2014, by the legendary Canadian rocker Neil Young of the launch of his very own new portable PonoPlayer accompanied by the launching of […]
On March 25, 2014, hot on the heels of its acquisition of messaging service WhatsApp, the social-networking behemoth that is Facebook announced that it would be purchasing the VR headset company, Oculus VR – famous for the Oculus Rift gaming device, which was originally funded […]
Printing out your smartphone photos can be a pain. Thanks to our innovative amigos at the Kickstarter project there’s a very cool app called Flag (via Gizmodo) that will make you passionate shooters as happy as pigs in poo-poo, because it’s free. Really? Free? Well, there […]
I love Kickstarter. I love seeing all the cool stuff people are inventing, making, creating. Gives me hope for humanity! In fact there are so many wins to Kickstarter: • It is a great to test your ideas to see if there’s a market for […]
With buzz climbing about the soon to arrive next-generation offerings from Sony and Microsoft, and an industry-wide focus on creating gaming experiences much like what we are used to, the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset is something of an outlier. Developed by Palmer Lucky, the co-founders of […]
