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The Kinect’s lip-reading has nothing on this.
According to The Economist, Several lines of inquiry (see article) are converging on the idea that the neurological activity of the brain can be decoded directly, and people’s thoughts revealed without being spoken. So telepathy? Mind-reading? We could be mentally messaging our friends and playing g
Is Mountain Dew actually the acid from Earthworm Jim?
Pepsi Co. recently let loose with the startling revelation that if you’re drinking a can of Mountain Dew, you don’t have to worry about finding a dead mouse in it, because they claim, “The mouse would have dissolved in the soda” into a “jelly-like substance.” Weirder still they’re claiming this as a
PAUSE: How much does packaging matter?
We interrupt our bite-sized game reportage to report on a national emergency that you probably didn’t realize even existed. Someone made scotch in a can and called it Scottish Spirits. Each can costs five dollars and contains about eight shots of liquor. About ten minutes after the product made its
LET THERE BE ROMS: A new religion finds ecstasy in pirating copyrighted material.
This is a weird one. A group of Swedish copyright pirates have founded Kopimism, a strange new religion that holds copying data as their highest sacrament. Like me, you’re probably thinking, “Is this real?” Yes, it seems to be. The Swedish government recognizes Kopimism as a religion, and the church
The best Apps of 2011 for babysitting your kids.
I don’t know about you, but I simply can’t get enough of Best of the Year lists. I found the New Yorker’s list of best apps of 2011 amusing, not because the games on it were enlightening, but because the premise is this: here are the games that best pacify screaming children. I particularly enjoyed
Mark Twain, game designer?
Rather than make flash cards, Mark Twain measured out an 817-foot boardgame on his front lawn so they could memorize the complete history of the British monarchy. “When you think of Henry III. do you see a great long stretch of straight road? I do; and just at the end where it joins on to Edward I.
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