Peter Soldinger
Former Digital Trends Contributor
Peter Soldinger is a Los Angeles-based screenwriter for film and television with a passion for sports and a contentious relationship with all the technology that makes both pursuits possible. He thinks that relationship is amusing and wants you to read about it. If you've gotten this far, he was right. Soldinger is a rabid Yankees, Knicks, and Giants fan and still believes the "rom-com" is a viable genre of film.
Couch Bound: Our weekly guide to the latest streaming movies, TV shows, and music
Every week, highly anticipated and totally unexpected gems appear on the major streaming services. We’re paying attention so you don’t have to.
Couch Bound: Our weekly guide to the latest streaming movies, TV shows, and music
Every week, highly anticipated and totally unexpected gems appear on the major streaming services. We’re paying attention so you don’t have to.
Eminem and Arcade Fire headline the first YouTube Music Awards … but don’t hold that against them
The first YouTube Music Awards show assembled an amazing showcase of talent, including Jason Schwartzman, Reggie Watts, Arcade Fire, Eminem, and Lady Gaga. And it was a total disaster.
If YouTube is throwing a Music Awards show, we’re gonna handicap it
On Sunday, YouTube will broadcast its first Music Awards show, and now that the nominees have been made public and the voting begun, we took a hard look at who’s going to win.
Why fly to food when food can fly to you? Goldbely slings regional favorites online
Goldbely satiates displaced Americans by delivering regional favorites from home, flash frozen and delivered to your door. But how do you reheat a Philly cheesesteak?
Fox News prepares for lift off with its ridiculous ‘News Deck’
On Monday, Shepard Smith unveiled Fox News' latest reporting technology: gigantic touch touchscreens that do … well, it's not really clear what they do.
The ‘Robocop’ reboot will test whether tech can terrify the iPhone-wielding masses
The trailer for next year’s ‘Robocop’ reboot debuted last week, but it’s 20 years too late to freak out today’s youth like the original did.
Fantasy football costs the U.S. $6.5 billion but I’m not giving a penny back
This year, just like every other year, I contributed to the decline of the U.S. economy by playing fantasy football. This is my story.
So, you’re rich and famous without a computer? We’re not impressed
Last week, the Huffington Post listed 12 successful people who shun technology. Way to go, guys – we’re so impressed. Oh, wait, no we’re not.
I’m depressed that studies prove Facebook makes us depressed
A University of Michigan study confirms what many of us have long suspected: that using Facebook bums us out. Here’s a suggestion for reversing that trend.
This woman’s invention is more important than the iPhone
Hermione Way, sorta star of Bravo’s ‘Start-Ups: Silicon Valley’, has released Vibease, and our culture will never be the same. This is an iPhone moment, people.
Fool me once, Kickstarter, shame on you; Fool me twice…
Recent news of a wannabe board game designer fleecing thousands of potential customers out of 122 thousand dollars has nothing to do with Spike Lee’s highly publicized current Kickstarter campaign… does it?
Think the latest military drones are scary? Have you driven in California?
Now that drones are appearing everywhere from battlefields to your door step (looking at you, Dominos!), it’s time to decide: what part of this is the worst part?
Overly litigious society reaches its climax as man sues Apple for porn addiction
Who says we’re a litigious society? Just because a Tennessee man can sue Apple for exposing him to internet porn doesn’t mean our judicial system is … oh, wait. Yes it does.
Did the CIA just turn the 9/11 mastermind into a super villain called Dr. Suck?
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is reportedly passing his time in captivity by designing a vacuum cleaner. Why am I the only one who can see how this thing ends?
‘It was on (the) line!’ Wimbledon enters the live streaming era
Not to worry, cord-cutting and work-bound sports fans. The one tennis tournament of the year that you’re vaguely interested in can be watched online for free.
If tech goes Hollywood, get ready for even more lame sequels
Instagram’s announcement that they’re copying Vine, a service that pretty much copied Instagram, does not bode well for the creative well being of the tech sector.
It’s just like the couch! Yahoo teams with 49ers on a tech-soaked stadium
Yahoo has signed a 10-year deal giving it exclusive rights to online digital content from the team’s techie new home, Levi’s stadium.
Ideas wanted: Amazon Studios baits aspiring screenwriters with Storyteller
Amazon’s new Storyteller tool turns scripts into visual storyboards, and in the process, generates both ideas and feedback for the disruptive new content-production house.
Goal line technology rolled out at soccer’s Confederations Cup, world does not end
Despite its longstanding aversion to enabling its officials with technology, FIFA rolled out a camera system this weekend in Brazil that may become the standard for next year’s World Cup.
13-year-old boy throws baseball’s first tele-robotic pitch
Nick LeGrande, a baseball-obsessed 13-year-old who can no longer play due to illness, threw out the first pitch at an Oakland A’s game with the help of Google Fiber.
Lebron who? NBA announces winners of their ‘Social Media Awards’
Miami Heat versus San Antonio Spurs might be one of the more compelling NBA Finals in a while, but it can’t hold a candle to the cutthroat competition amongst the league’s finest Tweeters and selfie artists.
I’m the jerk who bought the laptop 10 seconds before the new one is announced
Look, I’m an average consumer of computers, so when I bought my brand new MacBook Pro the other day, it didn’t occur to me that the thing would be irrelevant almost immediately. What an idiot!
Microsoft’s NFL deal is great news for pro football teams (unless they’re the Jets)
The NFL will drop its ban on tablet computers being used during game days as part of their recently announced partnership with Microsoft. This may make teams more competitive; it will certainly make watching these teams more hilarious.
What my dog taught me about the new Surveillance State
Low-cost home security systems mean that we can now train our voyeuristic tendencies on our own family members, and even pets!
Gravity is for poor people: How the rich are settling the final frontier
Maybe we should be glad that Richard Branson and his fellow gazillionaires are taking the mantel of space exploration from our governments … but maybe not.
Kickstarter’s Hollywood crush is great for independent film
That Zach Braff and Veronica Mars have led successful financing efforts on Kickstarter is being derided by purists as polluting the spirit of the site. Those critics have it all wrong.
Will this Bitcoin stuff amount to anything more than a hill of beans?
The recent surge and collapse in Bitcoin values got us thinking about all the things we don’t understand about the virtual currency, and whether they’re a good or a bad idea.