ドイツ西部ケルン(Cologne)で開かれたゲーム見本市「World Cyber Games 2008」で、ゲームをする来場者(2008年11月6日撮影)。(c)AFP/DDP/SASCHA SCHUERMANN 【3月29日 AFP】テンポの速いビデオゲームで大勢の敵を倒していると視力が向上するとの論文が29日、英科学誌「ネイチャー・ニューロサイエンス(Nature Neuroscience)」に掲載された。 同研究によると、ビデオゲームが視力に有害だとの懸念を持つ人もいるが、実際には有害からほど遠く、「カウンターストライク(Counter-Strike)」や「コール オブ デューティ(Call of Duty)」、「レフト・フォー・デッド(Left 4 Dead)」などのビデオゲームは、眼科医の呼ぶ「コントラスト感度」にとって抜群のトレーニングになるという。 コントラスト感度とは、単一
Engadget's recession antidote: win a Peek Pronto with a free year of service! This whole global economic crisis, and its resulting massive loss of jobs got us thinking. We here at Engadget didn't want to stand helplessly by, announcing every new round of misery without giving anything back -- so we decided to take the opportunity to spread a little positivity. We'll be handing out a new gadget eve
Windows Mobile 7 screenshots (or mockups, or something) leaked? The past few days have seen the alleged leaks of a couple batches of Windows Mobile 7 screenshots, suggesting Microsoft's already hard at work on the successor to 6.5 -- something we've heard in the past, and given the state of 6.x, a rumor that isn't difficult to believe. To say the leaks look sketchy, though, would be an understatem
Rumor has it NVIDIA is currently talking to VIA Technologies about purchasing a large stake in the company, to the tune of around 300 million new shares each priced somewhere in the range of NT$9 and NT$12 ($0.27 and $0.35 US equivalent) apiece, for a grand total of approximately US $81 million to $105 million. Don't put too much stock into this at the moment, as none of this is confirmed -- indee
Right around 13 months ago, we were asking you fine readers how you'd change Amazon's original Kindle. Now that it has had some time to think about things and deliver a refined version of its hit e-reader, we're giving early adopters the chance to fire off yet another round of criticism. Did Bezos & Co. address all of your gripes with the first iteration? Are you still bummed by anything? Is the s
iSuppli, of all companies -- you know, the teardown people -- is reporting that Nokia has stopped using outside contractors altogether for manufacturing its hardware. Nokia has always had a good deal of in-house manufacturing capability, but certain products -- including its upcoming MID, allegedly -- have been contracted out to ODMs like Foxconn and its contemporaries, so this calls a whole slew
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