I’m a corporate executive!

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We don’t need a babysitter tonight!

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Take me back to Atari land

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Various things are happening

where to begin...

move to the left, no no to the right!

yeah yeah, like a rabbit

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Brain wave video gaming

The world of The Lawnmower Man is finally here! Or at least it will be soon. Progress on using brain-wave activity to control a video game character is advancing quite well.

“Research laboratories around the world have been working on technologies which let people “jack in” to computers directly from their brains, including Cyberkinetics, whose BrainGate system is currently undergoing trials. “We are able to pick up electrical activity on the scalp and take the brain activity into a C# signal-processing engine which analyses those signal in real-time and makes a decision which of the two boxes the player is looking at.”By “tuning” into the boxes on either side of a huge screen in turn, the frog-like virtual character, Mawg, was balanced and walked across a tight-rope.”" More if you click here.

brain me

brain machine

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Play more xbox, get superhuman sight

It’s about time that all of the money going into research gave us something interesting. I like that they have validated the countless hours that I spend playing xbox. Yay science!

“So, spending time in front of a computer screen isn’t necessarily the mindless and vision-ruining activity that some people claim. While excessive play can put our eyes under a lot of strain, Li’s work suggests that more moderate levels of gaming can actually sharpen our vision in at least one important respect.” More: http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/03/playing_shoot-em-up_video_games_can_improve_some_aspects_of.php

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Are you a pervert? Do you like video games?

If there’s one thing that cracked.com has given us, it’s the endless list of awesome and funny lists. Their newest one is “The 10 Most Perverted Old School Video Games”. I remember growing up and secretly trying to find time to play Leisure Suit Larry. There’s something classic and really seedy about trying to get off on those old crappy 8bit and 16bit video games. Hell, we didn’t even have 256 colors back then, and porn was delivered in UUENCODEd documents via Usenet. Memories… memories…

For more awesome lists, go to cracked.com

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