Getting Hot Under The Collar -- For Tech

"Gotta go get the candy."

That's the motto around GameTrailers.com, according to CEO Jon Slusser, when it's time to collect new teaser footage from video game companies to post on the MTV Networks-owned site.

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With such a fierce devotion to games that aren't even out yet, and the emergence in recent years of what's called "unboxing porn," it's clear that tech anticipation has heated up.

This is a video news piece on gadget lust and "unboxing porn" that features me (!) as one of the interview subjects. Ryan Pearson of the AP and I spoke on the phone last week after he found some of my Flickr photos of unboxing various gadgets (mainly, my iMac and TiVo). He was a really nice guy to talk to and I got a kick out of the subject matter (pure geekery). Check out some of his other video's at the ASAP site.