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DOMK Receives Confirmation That 1st “SolaPad” Units Are Being Prepared for Shipment
25 May 2012 12:30 PM | No Commentsvar AdBrite_Title_Color = '0000FF'; var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000'; var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF'; var AdBrite_Border_Color = 'CCCCCC'; var AdBrite_URL_Color = '008000'; try{var AdBrite_Iframe=window.top!=window.self?2:1;var AdBrite_Referrer=document.referrer==''?document.location:document.referrer;AdBrite_Referrer=encodeURIComponent(AdBrite_Referrer);}catch(e){var AdBrite_Iframe='';var AdBrite_Referrer='';} document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,83,67,82,73,80,84));document.write(' src="http://ads.adbrite.com/mb/text_group.php?sid=2053203&zs=3436385f3630&ifr='+AdBrite_Iframe+'&ref='+AdBrite_Referrer+'" type="text/javascript">');document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,47,83,67,82,73,80,84,62)); LONGWOOD, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DoMark International Inc. (OTCBB: DOMK) announced today that management of its wholly-owned subsidiary, SolaWerks, has...
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New Autodesk SketchBook Ink App Delivers Stunning Creative Tools for iPad
24 May 2012 12:59 PM | No CommentsSAN RAFAEL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) launched Autodesk SketchBook Ink for iPad paint and drawing app, the latest release from the company’s popular SketchBook...
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Vegas Tech Start Up Questionable LLC Launches Questionable Friends iPhone App
23 May 2012 4:53 PM | No CommentsLAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Questionable™ today introduced Questionable Friends™ for iPhone®. Questionable Friends lets you send questions to your contacts and provides instant feedback as questions are answered. Answers can be ...
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Sidecar Revolutionizes Phone Calls by Bringing “Smart Calling” to Smartphones
22 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsSAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Launching today, Sidecar (www.sidecar.me) is a new mobile app that brings Smart Calling to smartphones. Smart Calling allows people to share live See What I See video, brilliant ...
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TransCore Launches Mobile iPad App for TransSuite Traffic Management System
21 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsWASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Intelligent Transportation Society of America Annual Meeting – TransCore brings the ease of mobile computing to its TransSuite® advanced traffic management system (ATMS), launching its iPad® ...
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Playing Video Games Archive
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Video game addiction: The same as getting high on cocaine?
Posted on May 27, 2010 | No CommentsA UK therapist claims that two hours of playing video games gives the same high as doing a line of cocaine. Of course that raises the question of, well, what would you rather your kid do, bump lines off a dirty mirror or play Mario Kart before going to bed? What, too flip?
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DeHood Launches a Foursquare meets Twitter meets Yelp meets Ning for iPhone
Posted on May 26, 2010 | No CommentsWhen I was a kid, we used to play on the street in front of my house. Yeah, I know – seems like years ago. Nowadays, with children and families spending more time inside watching TV or playing video games; I feel like there’s nobody outside in my neighborhood anymore. In fact, most people don’t [...] -
Do you play video games? Are you agoraphobic? Have we got a job for you
Posted on May 17, 2010 | No Comments
A "market-leading gaming console company" hired (probably Microsoft) a contact center provider, Alpine Access in Denver, to provide phone support. But they can't find 200 or so video gamers who are willing to walk parents through how to pull a grilled cheese sandwich out of the optical drive near Denver so they're going to that hotbed of excellent and stable talent: housebound Internet fans.
Their site, www.alpineaccess.com/superhero/, offers the opportunity to apply to a work-from-home job with benefits, competitive wages, and the opportunity to talk about video games.
Anyway, if you're out of a job and you think about Bayonetta when you spend alone time, this may work. Give it a go.
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Are video games art?
Posted on April 19, 2010 | No CommentsI'm hesitant to write this because, really, who cares? And I don't mean that in a negative, cynical way at all, but rather in a practical way. Clearly there are people who enjoy playing video games, just as there are people who enjoy creating video games. Why should these people concern themselves with whether or not Roger Ebert, a 67-year-old man who wouldn't know the difference between World of Warcraft and The Legend of Zelda if you smashed his face in with the blunt end of the Master Sword, “approves” of their pastime or vocation?
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Researchers: Playing video games before bedtime doesn’t keep you up all night
Posted on April 16, 2010 | No Comments
I remember when I was a kid playing the NES and I'd always play until about nine or ten at night and then go to bed and read until 2AM or so. While you could feasibly correlate the fact that playing games kept me up - my grandma always did and she said I'd always get too "excited" when I played SMB or something else equally thrilling - apparently there is no causation between the two.
According to a Flinders University study, gaming did not cause sleeplessness or sleep impairment. The study focused on teens with a mean age of 16, however, and the researchers found that younger teens may be more impaired by thrilling games. They played CoD 4: Modern Warfare, incidentally, so it doesn't get more thrilling than that.
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America the beautiful: Mother calls 911 because her kid was playing GTA past bedtime. Yeah.
Posted on December 22, 2009 | No CommentsGotta love cops. A woman in Boston got mad at her 14-year-old son for being up at 2:30am playing Grand Theft Auto. (At least the kid wasn't smoking dust in the street at that hour.) In fact, she got so mad that she called 911 for help. You know, "You have to help me. My son is up in the middle of the night playing video games! I don't know what to do!" The cops responded, no doubt aggravated that they hadto deal with this garbage, by saying, "Calm down, ma'am. Just put your dumb kid to bed." That's not an exact quote, but you know that's what they were thinking.
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Review: Gunnar ‘MLG Legend’ Glasses
Posted on December 4, 2009 | No CommentsShort Version: Gunnar’s “MLG Legend” glasses are a good choice for gamers and workers alike who suffer from eye problems created from staring at a screen for long periods of time. While the thought of wearing specialty glasses with amber lenses in front of a computer or TV screen may seem pretentious to some, the [...] -
Rock music is dead, and all the Rock Band in the world won’t save it
Posted on October 27, 2009 | No CommentsIn the interest of bringing Ron and Fez’s fantastic radio show topics to a more tech-minded audience, I propose the following: games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band, while fun and, generally speaking, “good,” will not save rock music. Rock and roll, for all intents and purposes, is dead. Bear with me for a minute, [...] -
U.S. Soccer looks to EA Sports to help develop next generation of pros
Posted on August 19, 2009 | No CommentsYou would think that with a population of 300 million the U.S. would be a little better at soccer than it currently is. Not that the US Mens National Team is terrible—its victory against Spain in the Confederations Cup in June was all kinds of great—but we're (yup, Royal We time) not exactly known as a “world power,” mentioned in the same breath with Italy, Germany, Spain, Brazil, and Argentina. In steps... EA? Yup, we just got word that EA Sports, makers of FIFA 10, has teamed up with US Soccer to develop and promote a series of training videos that young players can use to improve their game. Is is enough to to give some future USMT the World Cup one day? US Soccer certainly has high hopes.
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Are you a geek suffering from dry eyes? Try these Wink Glasses from Japan
Posted on July 31, 2009 | No Comments
A lot of us geeks have one problem: Playing video games, programming or surfing the web usually means staring at computer screens or TVs over a long period of time. And some of us eventually pay a price in the form of dry eyes, which can be very annoying.
But now Japan based Masunaga Optical Manufacturing comes to the rescue. The company that enjoyed some international attention for designing former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin's glasses, has developed the so-called Wink Glasses [JP]. The glasses feature a built-in sensor, which analyzes the user's eyelid movements.
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The That’s Incredible! Video Game Invitational: This is what we used to watch
Posted on July 29, 2009 | No CommentsThis was considered some heady stuff back in the day. That’s Incredible! was a show that featured “incredible things:” kids who could paint pretty pictures, interesting science junk, etc. But this takes the cake. I totally remember this episode and this is probably the best example of proto-games journalism you’ll ever see. PLUS this thing [...] -
Is the recession causing people to play more and more video games?
Posted on July 7, 2009 | No CommentsIt seems gamers are playing the likes of Guitar Hero and Wii Whatever more hours per week than ever before. Is that the recession's fault? Maybe! Back in January, gamers were playing video games for an average of nearly 19 hours per week. In 2006, that number was just shy of 15 hours per week.
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President Obama: Don’t spend all day playing video games; go exercise!
Posted on June 16, 2009 | No CommentsLet's not dwell on this for too long, since it's largely a non-issue. President Obama, speaking to the American Medical Association (mostly about health care, such as it is), listed “video games” as a potential bad guy... for your health. You know, sitting on a couch all day long trying to rack up Achievements.