About Serious Games

Serious games (SGs) or persuasive games are computer and video games used as persuasion technology or educational technology. They can be similar to educational games, but are often intended for an audience outside of primary or secondary education. Serious games can be of any genre and many of them can be considered a kind of edutainment.

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Monday, 30 March 2009

I-Plate boosts ADSL and ADSL2+ broadband connections by 60% in the UK by isolating the 'bell wire'

BT was quietly confident earlier this year when it told me that a £10 device would significantly increase the speed of many people’s broadband connections – and judging by our tests, it’s absolutely right.

The iPlate (or interstitial plate, as its mother would call it) has boosted the speed of my home ADSL connection by a staggering 63%. Before I connected the easy-to-install device over the weekend, the actual throughput of my ADSL Max connection was averaging around 1.9Mb/sec, according to repeated tests at Speedtest.net. Now, that same speed test is reporting an average download speed of 3.1Mb/sec. All for doing nothing more than spending 10 minutes undoing a couple of screws and popping the plate in my master phone socket.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/09/10/iplate-boosts-broadband-connections-by-60/


Installing the BT I-Plate on an ADSL master socket:



Buy the I-Plate:

http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/Shop/ShopDetail.asp?ProductID=7256


Phone Socket Identification Tool:

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/tools/bt-master-socket.html

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Wednesday, 25 March 2009

OnLive: Cloud based gaming





Before I dive into what OnLive is and how it works, let me start by saying that you should read every word of this article as this service has the potential to completely change the way games are played. If it works and gets proper support from both publishers and gamers, you may never need a high-end PC to play the latest games, or perhaps even ever buy a console again. That is not an exaggeration.

Just announced at this year's GDC, OnLive is an on-demand gaming service. It's essentially the gaming version of cloud computing - everything is computed, rendered and housed online. In its simplest description, your controller inputs are uploaded, a high-end server takes your inputs and plays the game, and then a video stream of the output is sent back to your computer. Think of it as something like Youtube or Hulu for games.

http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/965/965535p1.html

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Sunday, 22 March 2009

Supersize ipod touch coming next month ?



http://www.rexblog.com/2009/03/20/19223

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Thursday, 19 March 2009

iPhone 3.0 Software Rundown



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Sunday, 15 March 2009

Spotify iPhone Application



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Tim Westergren: Pandora iPhone App Redefined Net Radio



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Thursday, 12 March 2009

A 'Battlestar Galactica' panel discussion at the United Nations



On March 17, there will be a "Battlestar" retrospective at the U.N. in New York and a panel discussion of how the show examined issues such as "human rights, children and armed conflict, terrorism, human rights and reconciliation and dialogue among civilizations and faith," according to Sci Fi.

The "Battlestar" contingent on the panel will consist of executive producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eick, as well as stars Mary McDonnell (who plays president Laura Roslin on the show) and Edward James Olmos (Admiral William Adama).

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Wednesday, 11 March 2009

Six weird things people have built with Twitter



For the uninitiated, Twitter is a "microblogging" service that invites you to share what you're doing with the world in 140 characters or less - and it's currently taking the world by storm, with everyone from Scoble to Shaq on board. Its charm is that its usefulness is entirely open to interpretation - while many just don't get it (including Google's CEO), some use it purely for self-promotion, others to connect with their peers, others to tap breaking news long before mainstream media covers it, and then there's the subset of users that like to build or hack devices to use its API. Read on to meet six devices (of varying usefulness) that use Twitter to communicate with their human overlords.

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Augmented reality from 1997: Soledad O'Brien and Dev Null MSNBC



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Tuesday, 10 March 2009

Suppose Google’s 3D drawing program, SketchUp were just a tad more powerful than today’s version


World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.

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Monday, 9 March 2009

Webcam Brings 3-D to Sports Cards



Since the 1950s, Topps has sold baseball trading cards filled with photos and stats, bringing the game to life. Now the company is bringing its cards to life.

Beginning Monday, collectors who hold a special Topps 3D Live baseball card in front of a webcam will see a three-dimensional avatar of the player on the computer screen. Rotate the card, and the figure rotates in full perspective. It’s called “augmented reality,” a combination of a real image with a virtual one.

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Hive Mind; Learn How to Search Twitter



http://www.twitip.com/welcome-to-the-hive-mind-learn-how-to-search-twitter/

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50 Awesome iPhone Apps for Runners


Runners who own iPhones are in luck. There are tons of great apps to help track, train, and cross-train or find out about nutrition, weight management, or health and safety issues. Check out these 50 apps--some are free and some are available for a small fee--to find high-tech help to support your running passion.

http://www.rncentral.com/nursing-library/careplans/50_iphone_apps_for_runners

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Kindle is not the best iPhone e-reader



http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10189205-2.html

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Asus launches Eee PC 1008HA ultra-thin netbook




http://www.liliputing.com/2009/03/asus-launches-eee-pc-1008ha-ultra-thin-netbook.html/08ha-2

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Saturday, 7 March 2009

Dreamweaver is dying !


The bottom line is that the old model of the central webmaster hand-spinning every page of every website and, worse, manually adding the navigation necessary to help users find it, just isn’t scalable or viable. The only feasible course for the future is for content to be posted by the content contributor, whether that’s the site owner or site visitors, and for the best possible navigation to be constructed around that content on the fly.

In other words Web 2.0 isn’t an empty slogan, it marks a fundamental break with the past and Dreamweaver lies on the wrong side of it. So is this the end for Dreamweaver and the traditional Dreamweaver-based web designer?

Eventually yes. In the relatively near future every website will be a dynamically-generated web application and all of today’s sites built on multiple static pages will be ripped out and replaced.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/03/05/dreamweaver-is-dying/

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Thursday, 5 March 2009

3D printer brings animated movie stars to life



http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126975.000-3d-printer-brings-animated-movie-stars-to-life.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

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Wednesday, 4 March 2009

Apple GarageBand Lesson Store





http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/27/the-garageband-lesson-store-could-be-apples-next-revolution-in-music/

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Amazon Kindle iPhone Application





http://blogs.zdnet.com/cell-phones/?p=829

http://content.zdnet.com/2346-17932_22-275140.html

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Intel Media Phone Tablet

The Media Phone is a new category of broadband devices that will redefine the traditional home phone by combining the power of a PC with the convenience of an always-on wired telephone. www.intel.com/go/voip



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Charlie Rose on Technology


http://www.charlierose.com/topic/technology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Rose

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Afghan tech boom



Beyond making life easier, some say the country's embrace of technology could help break the cycle of 30 years of relentless warfare. It puts at the tip of a finger many things that were strictly outlawed by Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar - music, movies, pictures of people and games like chess.

Young Afghans see the world differently from older Afghans because of their use of the Internet and mobile phones, and their participation in sports, said Shukria Barakzai, a female lawmaker and former newspaper editor.


http://www.macon.com/world//story/638152.html

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Monday, 2 March 2009

LittleBig Contra


LittleBig Contra is a NeoGAF collaborative project aimed at delivering the definitive Contra experience to LittleBigPlanet.



http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=349591

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra_(video_game)

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Always Innovating Touch Book: Low Power ARM based netbook tablet with keyboard/dock






http://i.gizmodo.com/5162584/always-innovating-touch-book-is-a-part+netbook-part+tablet-open-source-frankenstein?skyline=true&s=x

http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/touchbook/

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iPhone apps recreate the sound of firearms using authentic Hollywood special effects





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Microsoft's 2019 vision: touch panels and augmented reality is everywhere

<a href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-GB&playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:a517b260-bb6b-48b9-87ac-8e2743a28ec5&showPlaylist=true&from=shared" target="_new" title="Future Vision Montage">Video: Future Vision Montage</a>

http://venturebeat.com/2009/02/28/this-is-the-microsoft-i-want-to-see/

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Nintendo gets serious about maths



Nintendo has announced an initiative which it states is "trying to give mathematics a makeover" by partnering with the Mathcounts Foundation, a nonprofit organization that promotes math education. Between now and March 25, Mathcounts is challenging its middle school math clubs across the country to boost their membership in a quest to win Nintendo DS systems and copies of the new Personal Trainer: Math software.

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American Football offence tactics - Madden 09



http://www.feedingedge.co.uk/blog/2009/02/28/it-really-is-that-simple-virtual-world-whiteboards-and-diagrams/

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Sunday, 1 March 2009

TED - Evan Williams: How Twitter's spectacular growth is being driven by unexpected uses



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