Hundreds of kids games, geography games, math games, puzzles, and other educational games for kids, parents, and teachers. New kids educational games added regularly.
http://www.ramogames.com/
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Saturday, 6 September 2008
RamoGames.com: Hundreds of kids educational games
Thursday, 4 September 2008
USING WII FIT IN YOUR LONGTERM FITNESS PLAN: 40+ TIPS, TUTORIALS AND SUCCESS STORIES
To say that Wii has been a popular pastime is an understatement, but the release of Wii Fit this year has sent Wii’s popularity skyrocketing. Maybe it’s because Wii Fit has gamers and non-gamers alike intrigued and challenged with the fun fitness activities. Regardless of why so many are picking up their Wiimote, this game offers a unique opportunity to have fun with your console and get a start on better fitness. If you’ve decided to use Wii Fit to help you get in shape, take advantage of these suggestions to enhance your workout.
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Second Life as a Platform for Augmented Reality
http://arsecondlife.gvu.gatech.edu
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Wednesday, 3 September 2008
Films on USB Keys
http://www.custompc.co.uk/news/604788/ghostbusters-is-first-film-to-be-released-on-usb-stick.html#
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Mythbusters draw a MONA LISA in 80 milliseconds with 1100 paintball guns at NVIDIA's NVISION 08 Show
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Sony to Debut Photo-Realistic Safari Game
Sony Corp. is releasing a new safari game this week for its PlayStation 3 videogame console that purposely steers clear of attributes found in most popular videogames: It has no shooting, little action, no winning or losing, and not even an ending. Players simply observe wild animals in the savanna and take virtual photos.
But Sony is hoping that the game, called Afrika, will impress players with its advanced graphics. The developers, who spent nearly four years creating the game -- including two visits to Africa -- packed a fictitious national park with photo-realistic zebras, elephants, lions and dozens of other exotic animals.
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Stanford's "autonomous" helicopters teach themselves to fly
Stanford computer scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that enables robotic helicopters to teach themselves to fly difficult stunts by watching other helicopters perform the same maneuvers.
The result is an autonomous helicopter than can perform a complete airshow of complex tricks on its own.
The stunts are "by far the most difficult aerobatic maneuvers flown by any computer controlled helicopter," said Andrew Ng, the professor directing the research of graduate students Pieter Abbeel, Adam Coates, Timothy Hunter and Morgan Quigley.
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http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/september10/videos/367_flash.html
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Tuesday, 2 September 2008
Google Chrome: The new open source web browser - Is this the Google Web OS ?
Big leap froward in browser design. Not just multi-threaded but multi-process to maximize speed and stability for web based applications.
Tight integration with google gears for using web applications offline.
Based on the webkit rendering engine, same render that is used by the Linux KBrowser and Apple's Safari !
Javascript executes in multiple threads so one bad script can not lock the whole app. Crashes only end a single tab, not the whole app. Better memory management: by closing a tab you are killing a whole process and freeing it's memory for the OS.
Javscript executes in it's own virtual machine for added security and compiles rather than interprets code for improved performance. Much higher quality garbage collection than current VMs.
Browser has it's own process manager, separate from the OS, that shows the memory and CPU usage of each browser process. Easily see and kill problem processes.
All processes run in secure sandboxes. Page plugins (e.g. flash) run in their own processes separate from the page rendering process. Thus a plugin problem can not bring down the tab.
UI centred around tabs at the very top of the window and pointing up. Each tab is a mini browser itself with its own controls and address bar, independent of other tabs. Web apps can be launched in streamlined windows without browser controls.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome
http://www.google.com/chrome/index.html?hl=en-GB&brand=CHMG&utm_source=en-GB-hpp&utm_medium=hpp&utm_campaign=en-GB
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/02/google-officially-announces-chrome/
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-10/mf_chrome
http://gillmorgang.techcrunch.com/2008/09/05/gillmor-gang-090508/
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The HP TouchSmart PC has touch-optimized applications in its HP TouchSmart software suite
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The power of ultrasonic waves has been harnessed to produce "virtual" objects in mid-air
The field of haptics - integrating computing and the sense of touch - has been around for some time but has required gloves or mechanical devices to impart a sense of feeling.
Now, a team of Japanese researchers has developed a system that uses focused ultrasound to do the job.
Its inventors may soon commercialise the approach.
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The Economist: Why video gaming can be good for business
AS THE Democratic National Convention got underway in Denver yesterday, so, too, did a novel attempt to drum up interest in the American electoral process. Microsoft has tweaked its Xbox video-gaming consoles so that they can be used to register to vote in the presidential election and to participate in opinion polls and online forums.
Part of an initiative to boost youth participation in this year’s election, Microsoft’s move shows how gaming technology can have an impact far beyond the narrow confines of a display screen. In a forthcoming book called “Changing the Game”, David Edery and Ethan Mollick argue that many skills and lessons from the gaming world are applicable in the business world. The smartest firms, the authors argue, will not only allow game-playing in the workplace, but will actively encourage it.
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The Web Becomes a Gaming Surface
Despite its billing as a fundamentally social phenomenon, browsing the web can be a very solitary experience.
Visit a popular website and, although thousands of other people may be using it too, you will get little sense of being part of a crowd.
The only sense you will get is if the site is slow to respond and even that it is just an echo of that greater presence.
But now games are starting to emerge that are explicitly social and use the web as their playing surface. No longer is there any need to venture into an online world such as Azeroth or Hyboria to go on quests, complete missions and go up in level.
Instead, RocketOn, Web Wars Eve and the Passively Multiplayer Online Game (PMOG) let you do it all on the web.
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