Just when I thought riding a bike to power your television was crazy…
Patent# US 6850167 which refers to a Brushing Behavior Reinforcement Toothbrush and Enclosed Electronic Game Switch with Grid rewards you if you brush your teeth correctly by allowing you to play a game on a toothbrush-sized LCD screen. The issue remains that we [...]

When An Invention Comes Along Like This One Don’t You Think Its Time To Put The Joystick Down
In light of recent economic woes not everyone has $300-$400 bucks to shell out for the latest gaming console, but that doesn’t mean you catch shell out some pennies to hone your skills on your existing system. For [...]

 
Kids who spend long hours playing games on different electronic consoles could be at risk of obesity, poor posture and chronic back problems.

 
 Invent-a-Game
Kids ages 5 to 19 can stop playing Elf Bowling and start working on their own online game. A new contest gives kids the chance to submit their idea for the online game of the century to a major game developer-and possibly earn huge cash.

 It Would Be Nice If Coins Pop Out Of The Secret Box And Not Fire Balls Even Though It Would Make Your Bedroom Very Interesting
 
Artist Antoinette J. Citizen has put together a room making me wish I could be a kid all over again.

 
If You Have Any Money Left Over From The Day After Holiday Sales Here Is A Fun Way To Save Your Money For Next Year
The new arcade game piggy bank from Strapya World features Tetris or Atari Breakout. Playing these retro games at the local arcade used to cost us rolls of quarters, but no [...]

Infrared Light From Xbox
Scientists have accidentally discovered that infrared light can stimulate neurons in the inner ear like sound waves do. While trying to “weld” nerves with heat from a laser, surgeons found that the light could stimulate the ear nerves extremely precisely. A research team led by Claus-Peter Richter at Northwestern University in Chicago [...]

Now You Can Really Get Into The Game
Can there be a more kick-ass phrase than “Impact Generating Gear?” When I read that, I think of massive machines that smash giant craters into the earth. Of course, my imagination always outweighs reality…

Amazing Billboard
Check out this creative marketing campaign for Sony’s PSP gaming console. Have you seen one in your neighborhood? I’m guessing no, since this is actually a concept for a PSP campaign made by a fan.

Playing Video Games Wastes A Lot Of Power
A report by the Natural Resources Defense Council titled “Lowering the Cost of Play: Improving Energy Efficiency of Video Game Consoles” reveals that video game consoles across America collectively suck up “an estimated 16 billion kilowatt-hours per year – roughly equal to the annual electricity use of the [...]

 
When a dog needs to take a Wii on Halloween
These Wii dogs win any costume contest hands paws down. Now I have a burning desire to see a Wiener dog as a Wiimote. While the dogs look thoroughly humiliated, this sort of thing pleases humans.

UltraPin is a virtual pinball machine, which is to say it’s not really a pinball machine at all: all the action is contained within a standard enough video game, with the cabinet and controls in otherwise authentic shape. The table itself is a big LCD display.
Something vaguely similar this was tried at the end of [...]

Bulldog Interactive Fitness
A gym that uses video games to get kids moving? Bulldog Interactive Fitness has found a solution that gets kids off your couch at home, without actually taking away their number one obsession; video gaming. It’s a common problem many parents face; there are so many products on the market for children that [...]

 
 Family playing Wii
Contrary to the commonly held belief that computer games make people anti-social, a new research indicates that they bring families together.

 
 Announce Your 80’s Geekiness With New Arcade
If you yearn for the days before PlayStation and Xbox, when you had to haul you butt down to the local bar and slip in a couple of quarters to get your video game fix, then the Optime Strategies video gaming table could be for you. Run by a [...]

 
 
Richard Garriott Heads To Space
 American millionaire Richard Garriott followed in his astronaut father’s footsteps on Sunday, blasting off aboard a Russian rocket to become the world’s sixth space tourist.
Sealed inside the Soyuz TMA-13 capsule together with a Russian cosmonaut and a US astronaut, Garriott, a renowned videogame developer, was catapulted towards the International Space Station [...]

 
The 2008 Tokyo Game Show in Japan is currently underway, and there’s more than just awesome new games to look forward to. Game developer Square Enix – known for the widely popular Final Fantasy series – is planning an impressive technical feat this Thursday: a mind-controlled video game technical demo. The software developer has teamed [...]

When fun matters more than money…
Racing into the virtual world, we have featured several simulators that are customized and modified to satiate the hunger and desire of those seeking the ultimate in the speeding arena. The latest is the GT5P Pod that is believed to be one of a kind. Fitted with a 40″ LCD [...]

Clive Thompson of Wired’s Games Without Frontiers blog was wondering why Weight Watchers very well work for some people who want to lose weight and came up with this conclusion: Weight Watchers is not a normal diet … it’s an RPG!
Why did Weight Watchers work so well? For a really fascinating reason: because it isn’t [...]

 
 Re-Mission Video Game
Playing a specially designed video game can help adolescents and young adult cancer patients adhere more closely to their prescribed treatment, according to a report in the journal Pediatrics.

 
A new product from Microsoft Research. The Sphere comes from the same Microsoft Researchers that developed the Surface, aka “PlayTable”.
 

Using tilt motions, the player moves a character through rooms
LevelHead is a spatial memory game by Julian Oliver that uses a hand-held solid-plastic cube as its only interface. On-screen it appears each face of the cube contains a little room, each of which are logically connected by doors.

 
Humanity has accomplished some amazing things by combining virtual reality with plain ole reality. This is not one of those things. This is something designed to give randy nerds a few cheap thrills. The idea is that if you can’t find a girlfriend, Alice will take a shot at being the object of your affections.

 
Wii therapy. Not designed for everyone
Videogames are known to improve hand-eye coordination but can they help someone quit smoking or lose weight?
Hot on the heels of Nintendo’s smash success, ‘Wii Fit’, game makers are introducing new titles with a healthy focus, such as French game publisher Ubisoft’s “Allen Carr’s Easyway to Stop Smoking” that hits [...]

Pretty soon TV watching will become so all-consuming that we’ll have to do it in our sleep
US Internet users ages 12 and older surveyed in June 2008 spent 6.1 hours daily with video-based entertainment, according to Solutions Research Group’s “Multiplatform Video Report.” They concluded that about four hours per day were spent on [...]