According to an article at the BBC, children may be teaching themselves to read in the near future with the help of technology. MagicTown is a “world that unites books and gameplay,” designed for children on the web and the iPad, that is trying to preserve the tradition of storytelling for a future
Kes Sampanthar recently discussed the effects of stimulus-reward conditioning (i.e. Pavlovian conditioning) from a neuroscientific standpoint. It turns out that your brain gets a dopamine burst whenever you receive the signal for a reward, not the reward itself. This presentation was not for the sci
It doesn’t hurt to take a step back and re-evaluate our assumptions every once in a while. In his article today at the Verge, Paul Miller ponders the eternal mystery, “What is the Internet?” Since I don’t “use the internet,” according to my dial-up definition, I’m frequently longing for my friends t
A new game console based on the Android platform is in the works, according to the Verge, and it’s being designed by Yves Behar. And “all games will be free to play.” The project’s advisors also include Ed Fries of Xbox fame, Amol Sarva of Peek, Peter Pham of Color, and counts Julie Uhrman of IGN as
The European courts ruled today that downloadable software can be resold by users, which delivers a blow to current DRM policies in use by Steam, EA, and other content providers. From the opinion of the court: The first sale in the EU of a copy of a computer program by the copyright holder or with h
