XWave EEG Brain Computer Interface for Your iPhone/iPad 0inShare The XWave is an EEG interface from PLX Devices (Sunnyvale, CA) that works with iPhones/iPads as a controller for games, meditation training, and potentially many other uses not invented yet. The actual EEG is NeuroSky‘s eSense dry sensor, which the company has been licensing to other companies in order to push the technology into consumer hands. The plastic headband, which costs around $100, has a sensor that presses against the user’s forehead and communicates with a free XWave iPhone application that then shows your brain waves graphically on the iPhone screen. The XWave is meant to be used for entertainment, but can be applied to any other practical use, perhaps even as a controller for an assistive device for the disabled. Product page: XWave…Flashbacks:Video: Neurosky EEG Game Controller in Action; Coming Up: EEG Joystick; New Gaming Input Device Reads Your Mind; Brainwave Athletic Trainer Uses EEG to Improve Your Golf Swing
Why you should let your kids play (old-school) video games Throwback Summer: Take a page from the 20th century – a 10-week guide on how to bring back the adventure of summer. You can’t blame kids for never getting off the couch when they have Call of Duty at their fingertips. Have you played that game? It’s incredible. So strike this deal with your kids: If they want to spend an entire summer day playing vids, then the only ones they can fire up are 8-bit. Anyone who’s grown up with World of Warcraft is going to be bored out of their minds in 10 minutes of playing Bubble Bobble. They’ll learn to appreciate how good they’ve got it.
Zap your brain into the zone: Fast track to pure focus - life - 06 February 2012 I'm close to tears behind my thin cover of sandbags as 20 screaming, masked men run towards me at full speed, strapped into suicide bomb vests and clutching rifles. For every one I manage to shoot dead, three new assailants pop up from nowhere. I'm clearly not shooting fast enough, and panic and incompetence are making me continually jam my rifle. My salvation lies in the fact that my attackers are only a video, projected on screens to the front and sides. Then they put the electrodes on me. I am in a lab in Carlsbad, California, in pursuit of an ...
A History of Video Game Music By Glenn McDonald Design by Collin Oguro Video game music has come a long way, baby. Once an afterthought in terms of game design and overall pop-culture consciousness, video game music is now a legitimate industry of its own. Today, internationally renowned orchestras perform entire concerts of music composed specifically for video games, and game soundtracks regularly feature top-drawer techno, hip-hop, rock, and punk bands. Video game soundtracks have their own real estate now in retail outlets both online and off. Music is, of course, only one element of the overall sound design of video games, and in this larger arena too, exponential leaps have been made in a relatively short period of time. And for some games, sound and music are the point in and of themselves. In fact, historians will likely look back on these last few and current years as the golden age of video game music. The Forgotten Element... What a long, strange trip it's been. The Early Days combat.mp3 breakout.mp3 zelda.mid
BrainAthlete Charinging BrainAthlete Re-Chargeable Lithium Ion Batteries are built in BrainAthlete. Charging Plug in the Mini-USB side of the cable in to the socket on the front side of BrainAthlete, and the other side into any USB port. Charging Time. Charging will take about 2 hours. Turning on/off Powering on Hold the power button for 2 seconds. Powering off Hold the power button for 7 seconds. Connecting to a computer To connect to a computer, you must first "Pair" it. Warning: Make sure the battery is charged before pairing. Visual Display Troubleshooting guide Why does sexism persist in the video games industry? Image copyright Ubisoft Is creating female video game characters too much work? That might sound like a rhetorical question, but it was actually one of the main topics of discussion at this year's E3 conference - the video game industry's biggest event, which ended on Thursday. The issue arose after James Therien, technical director at European gamemaker Ubisoft, told trade publication VideoGamer that the latest instalment of Ubisoft hit Assassin's Creed would not feature any playable female characters because it would have "doubled the work". The reaction was swift - and negative - especially when a former Ubisoft developer questioned how much work would be involved. "The message from the industry is that men come first," says Jayd Ait-Kaci, a gamer from Canada who started the hashtag #womenaretoohardtoanimate, which was picked up widely. Image copyright Twitter Image copyright Square Enix Damsels in distress Who plays video games in the US? Image copyright Thinkstock Money on the table
The 10 Worst Games of All Time It's rare that a top-ten list--or more precisely, a bottom-ten list--leads to philosophical questions. But that's exactly what happened when my editor asked me to write about the worst video games ever. As I started to think about particularly atrocious games I'd played over the past quarter-century or so, I realized that each one was bad for an entirely different set of reasons. So what, precisely, makes a game terrible? Some titles had rotten game play. After sifting through the nominees and reliving memories of games that I'd long since suppressed [Note to my editor: Please see the therapy bills attached to my expense report], I came up with ten clunkers that span the range of different kinds of bad, plus an additional seven dishonorable mentions.
Parenting - Activities - 10 Violent Video Games to Avoid Dead Space 2 Appropriate for: 18 and older ESRB Rating: Mature Platforms: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Windows 7 Dead Space 2 takes gamers through a horrifically scary battle for their lives in an alien-infested world. Players must fight scary aliens to stay alive and battle the Necromorph abominations using updated weapons and tools to defeat them. Plus: 19 Best Xbox Games For Kids 19 Best Wii Games For Kids 19 Best PS3 Games For Kids
Video games may help curb climate change! Video games may help curb climate change! (IANS) / 3 July 2014 The culture of video gaming rewards people for solving problems and coming up with unique solutions. Video games have the potential to educate public and encourage development of creative solutions to social, economic and environmental problems, according to a new study. “Video games encourage creative and strategic thinking, which could help people make sense of complex problems,” said Shawna Kelly from Oregon State University in the US. “Entertainment has always been a space for exposing people to new ideas. The culture of video gaming rewards people for solving problems and coming up with unique solutions. There is a common interest and connection among players, and knowledge is easily shared via game-specific wikis, message boards, instant messaging and more, Kelly pointed out. “There’s a huge set of people out there who love to problem-solve,” she said, adding, “Why not harness that power that is already there?”