Digital Trends

Ian Bell - Editor-in-Chief

Ian Bell co-founded Designtechnica Corporation (renamed Digital Trends in April, 2006) in June 2001 with partner, Dan Gaul. Bell serves as Editor-in Chief as well as President and CEO. He is a 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 Microsoft MVP award winner for Digital Media. Prior to Digital Trends, Bell held positions as an IT Analyst for Lockheed Martin, a Sourcing Consultant for Intel Corporation and was the VP of Marketing for The Ostler Group, a strategic marketing firm. Bell studied Marketing and Business at the University of Oregon.

Scott Steinberg - Publisher

Freelance radio/TV host and author Scott Steinberg regularly appears on networks such as ABC, CBS, FOX and CNN and has covered gaming/technology for 300+ outlets from The New York Times to Playboy, Rolling Stone and TV Guide. His most recent books include Get Rich Playing Games, Videogame Marketing and PR and The Videogame Style Guide and Reference Manual, the first volume to definitively categorize the gaming business from A-Z.

Geoff Duncan - News Editor

Geoff Duncan is a writer and editor often covering technology, music, pro audio, Internet, and Macintosh topics, but also venturing into technical writing, research, fiction, and criticism. He's currently the technical editor of the long-running weekly Macintosh and Internet publication TidBITS, develops and maintains software and custom Internet services, assists in product development and software testing, composes and produces music and audio for various media, and plays sessions and live shows. Geoff's been doing electronic publishing since before there was a World Wide Web — don't get him started — and you probably don't want to play him at Jeopardy. He resides in Seattle, Washington.

Brandon King - Senior Editor / Podcasts

Brandon holds a double BS in Computer Science and Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology from Emory University. After two years as Director of IT and Research Neurophysiologist for a small brain-computer research company, he spent 3 years in Big Pharma before returning to academia. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Neuroscience at Brown University, with an emphasis on Brain-Computer interface technology. Brandon regularly writes product reviews and hosts the Digital Trends Podcast.

Nick Mokey - News Editor

Nick Mokey is a senior magazine journalism major at Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, located in Syracuse, New York. Prior to writing for Digital Trends, he was a columnist and later head opinion editor at S.U.'s independent student newspaper, The Daily Orange. Nick has also interned for and contributed to Popular Mechanics magazine. Besides toying with computers and gadgets, he enjoys running, motorcycling, camping, and finding absurd deals on Craigslist.

Josh Norem - Senior Editor

Josh Norem has been covering PCs and PC hardware for over six years at some of the most respected media outlets in the world, including [H]ardOCP, Maximum PC magazine, and Wired magazine. He lives in Austin, TX and spends his spare time banging his head to heavy metal, eating BBQ and scrapbooking.

Dennis Barker - Contributing Writer

Dennis P. Barker is a working Consumer Electronics journalist based in Ossining, NY (30 miles north of NYC), who specializes in writing about and evaluating audio, video, home theater and HDTV products. He spent 12 years working on Consumer Reports magazine (Consumers Union of the U.S.) reporting on all types of consumer products. As the former CE Editor for Microsoft's Sidewalk.com, he was responsible for the products' Buyers Guides, CE editorial and acted as resident Electronics Expert. Over the years as a free-lance writer, he has penned several articles/reviews and created Buyers Guides for numerous publications/on-line web sites including Audio/Video Interiors, Cool Audio.com, Consumer Guide Best Buys & Discount Prices series of books and web site , Consumers Review Video Buyer's Guide, Dealerscape, DVD Etc, E-Gear, HDTV Etc, Home Theater, Home Theater Technology, MSN.com, Popular Mechanics, Publications International, Roxy.com, Stereophile's Guide to Home Theater, Video Magazine, Video Review, and WideScreen Review.

Chris Benham - Video Talent

Chris Benham is a professional actor from Newberg, OR. His body of work includes a number of local and regional commercials, as well as a variety of stage productions. In addition to his acting work, Chris has 10+ years experience in the audio and video industry.

Damon Brown - Contributing Writer

Damon Brown gets pop culture. The Northwestern grad covers music, sex and technology for Playboy, XXL, New York Post and Inc. He's a monthly game reviewer for SPIN and writes the Inspector Gadget column for PlanetOut.com, the largest gay and lesbian website. Damon has been interviewed on C-SPAN, NPR, G4 and BBC World, and helped moderate the first annual sex in video games conference in 2006. He wrote the first book on the iPhone, "The Pocket Idiot's Guide to the iPhone" (Penguin Books). Damon's currently working on his fourth book, "Porn and Pong: How Grand Theft Auto, Tomb Raider and Other Sexy Games Changed Modern Pop Culture," to be released by Feral House.

Alan Dang - Contributing Writer

Alan Dang has been writing in the technology industry since 1997. He has been published by CNET/Gamespot, Ziff-Davis's Gamers.com, FiringSquad, and DailyTech.com, and has even served as a technical consultant to video technology companies such as Silicon Optix/Teranex. Despite his expertise in the electronic entertainment industry, Alan's true passion is in medical science. He has published first-author research papers in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery and American Journal of Physiology. He received his BS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University and his MD from UCSF. Alan is currently a training Orthopaedic surgeon at the University of Connecticut.

Rebecca Day - Contributing Writer

Rebecca Day is a regular contributor to Popular Mechanics, Ladies' Home Journal, Electronic House, Custom Home and Design & Architecture magazines. She also contributes to E-Gear and Home Theater. Her articles have appeared in Rolling Stone, Northwest World Traveler, Sound & Vision, Robb Report, Audio/Video Interiors, Wired and others.

David Elrich - Contributing Writer

David has covered the consumer electronics industry since the "ancient" days of the Walkman. A "consumer’s" consumer-electronics writer who regularly contributes to some of the largest magazines on the newsstands, including InStyle and Metropolitan Home. He is a Contributing editor for Metropolitan Home (1988 to present), one of the top shelter magazines in the country. Editor of quarterly PC How-To Guide: Digital Photography Buyer's Guide for the past four years. Beyond that he has covered digital imaging for a variety of publications from the time of ground-breaking $10,000 3-megapixel cameras to the present. David has moderated imaging panels at CES and simply loves taking photos and videos.

Mark Fleischmann - Contributing Writer

Mark Fleischmann has been a technology writer and expert on home theater for more than 20 years. His writing appears regularly in Home Theater, E-Gear, and other magazines. He has served as founding editor-in-chief of etown.com, senior editor of Video Magazine, audio critic of Rolling Stone. He has also served as columnist for Premiere, The Village Voice, and Audio Video Interiors. His writing has appeared in Bloomberg Personal, Details, Entertainment Weekly, The Men's Journal, Newsday, Spin, The Stereophile Guide to Home Theater, The Washington Post, and many other publications.

Patricia Handschiegel - Contributing Writer

Patricia Handschiegel has worked in tech and Internet infrastructure for seven years and has been a freelance journalist covering fashion, technology and business for more than four years. She's the founder/CEO of StyleDiary.net, an online social media company, Look|Shop|List.com and the blog Industry Girl, and has held ghost writing positions for a Today show correspondent and major national media journalist. She lives in Los Angeles.

Douglas MacLean - Contributing Writer

Douglas holds a PhD in Bio-molecular genetics from CUNY. He currently works for a Fortune Five financial firm managing global hardware metrics and MIS reporting. He maintains the webs only complete region one DVD database. A long time fan of cinema and home electronics, Douglas is also the author of the Plain English guides for home theater.

Chris Nickson - Contributing Writer

Chris Nickson is a journalist who's written extensively about music and related fields. He's the author of more than 30 books, most recently The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to World Music and Solid Air: The Life of John Martyn. His work is published in a number of magazines on a regular basis. After many years living in Seattle, he recently return to England to live.

Suzie Ridgway - Contributing Writer

Suzie Ridgway is a freelance writer focusing on lifestyle issues with a technological bent. She holds a BS degree from the University of Georgia, and in the early days of the Internet boom, was among the first 150 people to work at MindSpring Internet Services, now known as Earthlink, writing radio advertising copy read by Howard Stern and Art Bell. Suzie, originally from Atlanta, Georgia, now lives in Portland, Oregon, and writes the Weekend Life-Adventure column weekly for the Portland Tribune, as well as business and lifestyle articles for the Portland Tribune, Brainstorm NW Magazine and other publications.