What if, by playing a video game, you could make the real world a better place to live? Author and game design Jane McGonigal seems to think we can do that through an approach called Gamification. This fancy word refers to attempts made by corporations and game designers that use the mechanics of video games…
It’s the time of year when college students (myself included) face the seemingly insurmountable obstacles that are final exams. Students can be seen running around in a state of panic, using open textbooks as pillows, and rocking back and forth with glazed eyes mumbling incoherent nonsense about “kingdoms of ends,” “aggregate demand curves” and “hierarchies…
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Ever hear of the trick where you use a bowl to boost the sound of your Smartphone speakers? No? Well, it’s simple. All you do is stand your phone up with the speakers facing down inside the bowl and the sound is amplified: cheap and simple. As cool as this is, it’s not exactly convenient…
XBOX Media Briefing The Xbox E3 2014 media briefing titled “Xbox: Game On”, will take place on June 9th at 12:30 p.m. Eastern/9:30 a.m. Pacific. The briefing will consist of “in-depth looks at previously announced games to trailers for our unannounced games coming in 2014 and beyond”, revealing of plans for “fan-centric events”. Phil Spencer…
Most TV shows will fade into the obscurity of small screen history, only to be occasionally remembered with a nostalgic comment on how they were a “pretty good show” or “is that the show where (insert name here) played (insert description here)?” But others have that magical something that causes normal people to join the…
Only a few years ago, phones that flipped open were revolutionary. Then phones with slide out keyboards took their place. Then phones with touch screens. Then full on smart phones. Now, the flip phones are coming back, combined with the smart phones. Queens University Media lab may have given birth to the next design of…
Here’s a list of essentials for the pro Smartphone photographer: macro, telephoto and wide-angle lenses, a tripod and mount and a preferred photo-capturing app. With all of these combined, you will be able to capture spectacular photos and videos…in daylight. What about nighttime photography? Most high-grade video cameras, and a few DSLR cameras, have night-vision capabilities. A…
There is nothing more adorable than the sight of two anime characters crushing on each other, declaring their love for each other, or battling evil with each other. Some romances are, too, more discreet than others, fighting their feelings for one another. Romance in anime is always a key thing to look for, next to…
The effectiveness of crowdsourcing was called into question after a wildly successful Indiegogo campaign from the Russian company Healbe. The company claimed to be developing a calorie tracker called GoBe, that doesn’t need the entry of any data—it simply analyzes cells in the body to measure sleep, heart rate, and food intake. Then, it delivers…
In a continuing trend where the “Game of Thrones” powers that be name their episodes after minor scenes that have little to do with the memorable moments; we get “First of His Name” named after the crowing of King Tommen Baratheon. (Are we still pretending he’s a Baratheon? Doesn’t everyone already know that he’s not?)…
Imagine a pen that lets you draw in the air, an artistic tool that creates three dimensional models of the designs that are stirring in the left side of your brain—all without ever using paper, ink, charcoal, or other drawing supplies. That is the vision fulfilled by the creators of the LIX 3D Pen. Brought…
Ever dream of being a Pokémon trainer? Capturing them with Pokéballs, expeditions on infinite amount of routes, and entering them in the seemingly shallow Pokemon competitions? Well, if you were a Pokémon trainer, what Pokémon would you want to have? Why, of course, every trainer has their preference: ground, electric, normal, psychic. Although, there are five…
When it was announced in 2010 that Spiderman was getting a reboot, I was as skeptical as you. If we reboot a franchise after only five years, how can we hope for new stories, new characters, or anything new at all? It didn’t help that the reboot was a corporate mandate from Sony over a…
Superhero movies are becoming more and more ingrained in our culture. They are some of the most profitable movies we have and they have quickly surpassed every other kind of blockbuster in sheer number. They have also changed a great deal since the Batman Movie with bat shark repellant. Some have been dark and gritty…