Tag: Games - Page 3
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What is, "TreeHugger Is On Jeopardy," Alex.
If you were watching Jeopardy last night, you might have had a particularly fun surprise when a contestant asked for Blogs & Bloggers for $400. Gawker was all excited about their inclusion in the show as the $1,600 question, and
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iPhone Game Features Heroic Fish Dodging Gulf Oil Spill Damage
We've had an influx of iPhone apps based on the Gulf oil spill, and many of them also donate proceeds to helping clean-up efforts. So what makes Puff Puff: Gulf Spill any different? It's still an app about the life post oil
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Play Ping Pong Across London
What a way to meet someone new, get a bit of exercise, or just a laugh. It's ping pong, that easy going (or not) sport that anyone can play. Now, and for the next month, one hundred ping pong tables will pop up across London: in
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Gorgeous iPhone Game Plants Trees For Top Scores
Want to play a very whimsical game on your iPhone and know that a real tree was planted not only when you bought it but also every time you get a high score? A new game in the iTunes store promises to plant a tree for each
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WOW Gets Real - 3D Role Playing Game Models Water Crisis (Video)
Water Wars uses a gaming platform to conduct a study on how people respond to water shortages. Intel Labs developers have ventured into combining 3D gaming with scientific research. In Water Wars, they've modeled an area of the
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400+ Bugs Killed in Record-Breaking Mosquito Hunt
If watching the World Cup isn't satisfying your love of sport, folks in Estonia have developed a game that may give you a new itch to scratch. Recently, thirty-seven brave participants gathered on a field in the city of Tartu to compete in a
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How the World Might Look if Our Tech Writer Jaymi was an Architect
Photographer Joseph Ford and 3D Artist Antoine Mairot turn tech into buildings, dropping a PS3 into Berlin, a classic NES and our favourite: a solar powered, glass roofed Nintendo DS.
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Clubby the Seal Gets Revenge, Takes Out Countless Human Hunters
So the iSealClub iPhone App didn't get very far, thank goodness. A St. John's Newfoundland software engineer wanted to bring the "excitement" of a seal hunt to anyone with an iPhone, but Apple rejected it. However, if you
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New Game Simulates Impacts on Watersheds, Educates Kids and Policymakers Alike
How do you get kids to understand the complexities of saving a watershed - from the ecology to the politics - and actually enjoy figuring out how to save it? By turning it into a game of course! After a
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What's the Impact of Getting the High Score?
Video games have moved from the arcade into the living room and jumped into our palms and pockets. Whether you're on the couch or the train, chances are the option to play a game is there—but what impact does all this gaming
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'EVOKE' Creator Jane McGonigal Designs a Game to Save the World
Credit: urgentevoke.com. Jane McGonigal has an epic idea: Use the power of online gaming to help save the world. How? Channel the same concentration and focus that people put toward succeeding in games like World of Warcraft into efforts to solve
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Cool Hybrid of Video and Board Games Created With OLEDs (Video)
Now here's an interesting idea for interactive board games - make the pieces out of OLEDs. Queen's Human Media Lab Professor Roel Vertegaal and HML graduate Mike Rooke have dreamed up a way to use simple hexagons as graphical gaming pieces that can
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New Year's Eve Party Game: You Might Be An Environmentalist If ...
The last couple weeks of December can be goofy. Especially when you get into the rut of watching too much TV and spending too much time in your pajamas. You might find yourself watching a Comedy Central marathon of "Blue
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Green Holiday Gift Guide: The DIY'er (Slideshow)
Handmade gifts come with a meaning all their own, whether you're packaging up a tin of your grandmother's famous holiday cookies or making a collage of photos from your parents' wedding day. And if you're giving to someone who has a knack for hands-on
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Green Holiday Gift Guide: The WeeHugger (Slideshow)
Give your kids that same awestruck wonder you remember as a tot--without investing in plastic toys that break within days, leaving behind a pile of landfill-ready junk and the feeling you would have been better off just giving the wrapping paper. From
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Green Gift Guide: The DIY'er
When challenged to make enough gifts for everyone at the holidays, the DIY'er thrives. If you can't match the sentiment of a hand-knitted scarf or intricately embroidered blanket, help your hands-on friends finesse their craft with these ideas, from canni
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Green Gift Guide: The WeeHugger
Let's be honest: It is way more fun to buy gifts for kids. Toys wrapped in big, shiny boxes reveal dolls that must be immediately introduced to the family or games they can't wait to begin--gifts much more exciting than a tie or a cooking pan. But kids' g
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You Can Plan New York's Energy Future with Gotham Gazette's Switch
In the wake of Climate Week, with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg painting roofs white, one thing is clear: Energy is on the mind of New Yorkers.
