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An item from last month’s NYT outlines the challenges of winning consumers over with “smart” technology. The big idea is that devices in your home should communicate with one another and with the Internet, but the challenge is that while tech-forward, many of the devices aren’t smart enough. “Smart”
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Tired of janky game controllers? Perhaps your forearm or forehead might be more appropriate. Desney Tan and Scott Saponas recently demoed Skinput, their technology that creates an interface using “bio-acoustics” to create touch-sensitive surfaces of our body. It’d be a bit like touching your finger
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Hey guys, here’s today’s news: – After the Consumer Electronics Showcase, Valve have been rumored to be working on their own console. It sounds like a PC, but it’s made by Valve… – Minecraft on the 360 is bringing a very interesting new feature: splitscreen. The dying breed of multiplayer sounds li
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Benedict Carey of The New York Times, has written an article discussing therapy apps. The concept seems oddly in line with a Brave New World despite its intention as an aide. The apps would be a collection of minigames that encourage users to practice healthier behaviors through completing simple, r
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Good artist steal, bad artists borrow, right? Then there are pirates. Over at Techdirt, Mike Masnick pubbed a lengthy response to the Weekly Standard’s assessment of piracy. In summation, the Standard is in righteous indingation about the public’s blase treatment of piracy but Masnick points out th
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Hey, how are ya? Good? Glad to hear it. Let’s read some news: – Markus “Notch” Persson, creator of Minecraft, has celebrated the game’s 5 millionth sale by spreading 3 million dollars among his employees. – BioShock Infinite on PS3 will also include a copy of the original game. Not a bad reason to o
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Finally, some explanations for why I don’t play Call of Duty online. According to researchers, when people win, they don’t take it humbly. It turns them into, well, jerks: “It seems that people have a tendency to stomp down on those they have defeated, to really rub it in,” said Brad Bushman, co-aut
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The Hero Deck teaches kids how to, well, be heroes through. No better way to get at that than through card-based warfare! See more about the project here. -Jamin Warren
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Roger Kimball, editor and publisher of the New Criterion, has a long, curmudgeonly eulogy for the novel in the Weekly Standard this month. He outlines the cultural conditions and requisites that are needed to keep the novel alive and of course, the internet and “instant gratification” is to blame. (
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The Snowfield feels like a nightmare. You’re a soldier on a snowy plain that seems to stretch on until infinity. There’s the sleepy, slow crawl with which you move around, between other mute soldiers and a ruined manor with a raging fire. Step away from the fire, and you can feel yourself move just
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We love games of all shapes and sizes, and guess what? So does the rest of the world. This is part of a larger project to document a homegrown game from every country in the world. People love throwing things. Especially at other people. The quickest way to earn respect in my elementary school was t