Posted on March 5, 2008 by yojoe
As reported on Kotaku, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory intends to purchase 300 PlayStation 3 40GB gaming systems. The reason for the purchase is not clear, though the Air Force maintains it is for “conducting a technology assessment of certain cell processors.”
Apparently Air Force personnel are prohibited from viewing blogs, but [...]
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Posted on January 17, 2008 by yojoe
If you are about to go under for a surgical procedure and see you doctor playing Super Mario Galaxy on a Nintendo Wii, there is nothing to fear. Yo may just be just warming up for your upcoming procedure.
According to NewScientistTech, a new study shows that surgical residents performed better after playing the Wii.
To [...]
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Posted on December 20, 2007 by yojoe
A recent study in Psychiatric Quarterly, by Christopher John Ferguson, reports on a meta-analytic review of studies, published since 1995, analyzing the effects of video game play. The Ferguson study concludes that the previous studies of video game violence provided no support for the hypothesis that violent video [...]
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