Rachel Helps

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Learn to pack via interactive website.

Video There’s a proper way to pack to ensure that the weight of your shoes is distributed evenly and that fold creases don’t show up as huge wrinkles. Since few of us have a valet to pack for us anymore, Louis Vuitton has supplied an interactive site called The Art of Packing to teach us. It include

Real-life disasters inspire Zombie RPG Dead State.

The Dead State Kickstarter has received its funding, and Doublebear founder Brian Mitsoda reflects on his inspiration in surviving a hurricane in Miami: In 1992, Miami was hit by a category 5 hurricane that leveled the entire city. It changed the landscape, such that you couldn’t really use landmark

PAUSE: Classy 3DS cases

The Japanese accesory site, WaSaBi, has come out with a line of clear plastic 3DS cases garnished with traditional art. The result: a sophisticated, personalized look. [via TinyCartridge]

Team Fortress 2 ‘s economy allows complicated bartering.

Valve has hired economist Yanis Varoufakis, and he has a blog, where he recently looked at currency in Team Fortress 2, or rather, how people aren’t just using keys to get stuff. There’s a sophisticated bartering system, and you can actually end up with more than you started with if you trade right.

Having a Wii does not a fit person make.

Merely having active Wii games isn’t enough to increase fitness levels, and new study shows.   The study selected children ages 9 – 12 who had a body mass index above the median and who did not already own a Wii. Each household was given a Wii, with half of them assigned to a group that could choose

Girls and boys favor videogames over other toys.

What was your favorite toy when you were a child? A survey of children fifteen years ago probably wouldn’t have included computers as toys. But these days, “toy” and “electronic gadget” are sharing a lot of territory. Both girls and boys prefer virtual toys and games to physical ones.  Adrian Voce O

Kickstarter Zombie RPG emulates real shelter conditions

Let’s get realistic about post-apocalypse survival, Jericho and Battlestar Galactica style. We’re going to have to work with our neighbors and compete against other towns to survive by gathering food and maybe shooting zombies. Dead State is a Kickstarter game that considers all these aspects of sur

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