Your Kids Are Smart Thanks To Video Games by Michael Connelly
Your daughter just came home with a straight A report card and an academic achievement award. She is already taking college credit classes and she is only in the tenth grade. Her brother who is two years older is graduating this year and heading off to college over the summer. ... You may have been the one who taught them their first words, how to walk and how to ride a bike, but their video games taught them things like problem-solving skills, critical thinking and sequential reasoning abilities.

Video Game Violence - What Do You Think About It? by Daniel Punch
Ever since video game designers were able to put red pixels on their imaginary characters that had recently deceased, there have been people crusading against their subversive ways. The outrage at video games seems to be cyclic, fading very briefly before exploding into the public eye once more... Video games are escapism, there's (arguably) no point in playing a video game that simulates something you can just walk outside and do (and yet sports games somehow consistently sell in large numbers...

Why Has The Nintendo Wii Become So Popular In Japan by Darren Lintern
Two weeks after it was released in the US late last year, the Nintendo Wii came out in Japan, and consoles literally flew off the shelves. Reports received from areas such as Akihabara (the major electronics district of Tokyo) and Shinjuku (another massive shopping location) said that it was... The Nintendo Wii makes use of a new remote sensing technology, which means that while playing a game, such as golf you can actually take a swing to hit the ball. ... You couldn't escape the ads for Wii anywhere last year, and it seemed to be all Japanese video gamers were talking about.

How To Make a Video Game - It's Free, and Not as Hard as You Think by Will Kalif
Video Game making has evolved dramatically over the past decade. It used to be a world filled with tedious hours of programming in a language like C. But today there are readily available tools that do all this programming work for you and allow you to focus on the creative task of building a... Step Two - Building the wire-frame of your game In this step of creating your video game you make an overall shell that the whole game will be played in. ... Five Steps to Making a Video Game There are five basic steps to making a video game.

Custom Gaming Laptops - Five Things You Must Consider When Building a Gaming Laptop by Laura Alter
Gone are the days when you would have been laughed at if you walked into an all-night LAN party carrying your trusty laptop and expecting to hang with the giant computer towers standing at everyone’s feet. The gaming laptop computers of today sport huge, crisp LCD screens, cutting-edge video... This presents a major problem for laptop gamers because if they can’t see the images properly, they can’t play the game properly. ... While once it was impossible to game on a laptop screen, the gaming laptop LCDs of today offer 25 milliseconds or less rise and fall time while generally...

NetGear Skype WiFi Phone Review by Lance Winslow
Stealing the show at CES 2006 in Las Vegas for the Hyper Cell Phone Category was the NetGear - Skype WiFi Phone. In reviewing this technology it is unbelievable the amount of technology going into this little handheld 3-in-one advice. This phone only needs a WiFi network to use VoIP or surf. ... We are entering a new age of cell phones which are portable juke boxes, MP3 Players, video games, PDAs, watches, video phones, surfing units, VoIP phones, holographic displays, email enabled and full GPS capabilities too.

The Perfect Family Video Game - Donkey Kong for the Nintendo 64 by Heather Giles
In your quest for a great family-oriented adventure video game, do not pass up Donkey Kong for the Nintendo 64. The moment the game begins, you are carried away from every day life by the the enchanting opening movie and are flown along until to the final battle. ... As you progress through the game, you find the other Kong family members and solve the puzzles to free them. ... He is a gorilla and is a far cry from the ape in the old arcade game. ... In this game, he is truly the leader of the monkey clan; the powerful head of the family.

10 Tips to Protect Your Eyes While Gaming by Andrew Bermam
Video and Computer games have taken the world by storm. Studies in 2006 reveal that kids and other gamers play for at least 5-10 hours a week and sometimes much longer. Sales of games indicate their popularity. Flash graphics, rapid-fire movements, and long hours at the console result in health... They must get up from the computer or gaming console and stretch their limbs, walk around a bit, and look at objects at a great distance. ... If the game is played on a television screen then sit at least 6 feet away.

Bluetooth Headset Basics Revealed by Chonticha Marijne
What is a Bluetooth headset? You've certainly seen them, those things connected to people's ears that make them look like they just walked out of a Star Trek convention. At first glance, it almost looks like a giant bug has attached itself to the side of the person's face, causing a moment of... A Bluetooth headset, in English, is a wireless device that connects one to mobile phones, PCs, laptops, digital cameras, printers and even video game consoles. ... Other times, people walk down the street, apparently talking to themselves in either calm or vigorous tones.

Heliodisplay --Computer Video With No Screen by Steve Bralovich
Science-Fiction meets reality with this new video display technology. The Heliodisplay includes patented and patent pending technology to transform normal ambient air and display video images into free-space. Some Heliodisplay models are interactive allowing a finger or hand to move images... The Heliodisplay system is backward compatible and accepts most 2D video sources (PC,TV, DVD, HDTV, Video game consoles). ... Build one into a door jamb and have a walk through image or virtual privacy screen.