When you want a kick, there are several tried and true methods. Some people use caffeine. Others use exercise. But some people respond to the direct application of electricity to the brain, at least according to a new story in Nature: Last year a succession of volunteers sat down in a research lab i
Oldie but Goodie: The Pixel Art of Junior Senior’s “D-D-Don’t Stop The Beat” (via)
World’s Biggest Pac-Man! agentmlovestacos: This is actually pretty rad. It’s a community-driven, worldwide Pac-Man project. Users create their own boards, upload them and they’re then connected to other boards. Anyone can start playing on any board. Instead of transferring from top to bottom or righ
The Morning News has a fascinating piece on a chain of theme parks called KidZania that allow kids to role-play a variety of jobs. The crazy part is that it’s all corporately sponsored as a way to get children interested in what big brands have to offer: Children can play surgeon, detective, journal
IN A GIF: A Super Nintendo twitch.
UK company Myndplay has created a technology to allow viewers to change the outcome of the film based on their thoughts. The connection between this and games seems promising: In the films the viewer takes the role of the protagonist. They can achieve positive outcomes for their character if they ac
Announcements like this ofter go unnoticed, but design geeks take note. You can buy digital art and interactive backgrounds for your PS3 via a new store. The work is curated by design shop Studio Output and features the work of eBoy (above), Jasper Goodall, Maharishi, and more.
Ben Abraham reflects on Crysis 2: Crysis was actually two things: a tech demo, and a sequence of tropical playgrounds built to demonstrate how much fun it can be to jump off rooftops onto the heads of North Korean soldiers while a gentle breeze blows serenely through palm fronds. The game saw genera
A group of Costa Rican designers are working on a new project that will translate tweets into actual gameplay changes. It’s a bit like Scribblenauts — whatever pops up on Twitter shows up in the two games they’ve created — a racing gaming called Route 140 and an action called Love City. The proje
IN A GIF: The Game Boy load screen brings us back.
This is a Wu-Tang Controller. That is all.
I know the first thing we want to do when we Google something is be asked a piece of trivia. I know, I know, right? Every time I sit down and look for the answer of some other thing I don’t know, I want to be reminded of some new thing I don’t know. Hence, the existence of Google in the first place.
This is the SupaBoy from a company called HyperKin. It plays SNES games on the go. That is all. [via]
PAUSE: The photography and design of Alex Dram is the technicolor dreams of 2D consoles in a 3D world.
This is a great find via the fine folks at the Lethe Institute. A Wired article from 1994 on the addictive, brain-sucking effects of Tetris. This piece of color is pretty hilarious: Even spanking new, Tetris was so addictive that Pajitnov himself was instantly hooked. He laughs, “You can’t imagine.
Over at Next New Web, Courtney Boyd Meyers reports from the annual PSFK conference that the future of work is play. Digital strategist Aaron Dignan here: Why aren’t people doing what they want to do and why aren’t they engaged at work? Dignan asked, rhetorically. It comes down to two issues- a lack
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PAUSE: Scott Campbell’s Devo vs. Space Invaders Get the print here.
Twitter was concerned a boon for protesters in Iran and Egypt who used the social networking service to communicate. We have a tendency to presume that the movement was widespread — that all protestors were using digital services equally. Of course, that was not quite the case and researchers at th
A 25-year old Japanese modder has taken a chosen an unusual (or perhaps expected) form of homage for the earthquake that struck five weeks ago. A modded version of Fallout 3 takes us to the site of the ruins of Fukushima Dai-ichi, the ill-fated power plant. While some have taken umbrage, it’s not so
As a band, it must be strange to play in an empty room in front of thousands of people on the Internet. But hey, Kill Screen does that every night via air guitar and Chatroulette. But seriously, there’s finally a way to pester your favorite bands with “Free Bird” requests from a far. Seriously, ser
PAUSE: Grand Theft Animal Crossing. [via]
Melbourne-based Anna Schwartz Gallery is featuring the art of British sculptor Antony Gormley. The works reminds us a lot of our recent fave Sword & Sworcery: EP which also features angular models in contorted positions. For the gallery site on the show titled “Memes”: “A Meme is a cultural analogu
Jerry Lawson, inventor of the programmable cartridge, has passed away at age 71. He is known for creating the Fairchild Semiconductor videogame console which featured removable cartridges, rather than having games built into them. The sad thing is that Lawson’s contributions were not noted until an
“Play is training for the unexpected.” — ecologist Mark Bekoff
