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Cory Kidd’s robot is going to keep your diet in line.
Cory Kidd wants you to believe that the solution to our obesity problem may come in an adorable, little, white plastic robot. Kidd has been studying human health and robot design for the better part of two decades. His most recent creation, Autom, is a tiny robot designed to keep your diet on track.
How one long 88-minute shot in "Silent House" can teach gamers about suspense.
Video While many survival horror games rely on mood and frightening visuals to terrify players, perhaps gamemakers should be looking at the work of filmmakers Chris Kentis and Laura Lau instead. Their shark thriller Open Water was an extensive exercise in patience in the Hitchcockian manner and thei
Forget the Portal gun. Seeing around corners with lasers is the next big thing.
Video While the Portal gun is still at least three Apple press conferences away, two MIT physicists are bringing us the next best thing: seeing around corners with lasers. Ramesh Raskar and Andreas Velten are the researchers with the breakthrough as LiveScience explains: They fired a laser through t
Cheat Sheet 3/22: Mass Effect’s ending change, Angry Birds: Space and Baldur’s Gate on iPad.
Okay, here goes: – In the continuing misadventures of Mass Effect 3’s ending, it looks as though BioWare will be conceding to fan protest and change the ending, to something that provides more “clarity” and “closure.” Sigh. – Angry Birds: Space is out today and to celebrate the launch, developer Rov
Smithsonian videogame show recieves lukewarm reviews. Where’s the normal difficulty?
I’m confused by the different reviews of The Art of Videogames at the Smithsonian. Should we really be alright with an exhibition in easy mode? Seth Shiesel’s “An Exhibition in Easy Mode,” from the New York Times summarizes what went wrong, “The Art of Video Games” is a sanitized, uncontroversial an
How social networks are affecting entertainment.
The Hollywood Reporter has done a survey investigating the ways that people use social media–and how it steps on entertainment. The results are telling. The study discusses the activities people take part in during their every day lives, from frequency and duration of visiting sites like Facebook an
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