If you’re looking to shed a few unflattering pounds before beach season officially starts, or simply looking to get your child to be more active, this Pokémon-inspired pedometer could be a safe bet.
A new study conducted by Iowa State University tested the accuracy of several pedometers — including a standard DigiWalker and a …
Microsoft founder and former CEO Bill Gates has been spending his retirement—and the billions of dollars he’s amassed over the years—to try to improve the education system here in the U.S. and wipe out polio worldwide.
During an appearance on The Daily Show last night, Gates talked about the challenges of administering polio …
Nintendo has recently expressed concerns about 3D technology and its effect on children under the age of 6 after experts consulted by the company suggested that 3D could cause young children to suffer from stunted eye development. So how does this warning fare for the future of the 3DS and Nintendo’s own plans for the next dimension of …
Light box therapy has long been the way of treating those with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). But a new development from the Finnish company Valkee could make treatment for SAD as simple as wearing earbuds for 8-12 minutes per day.
Finnish researchers have found that it’s not the eyes that need the light, but the brain, so …
It turns out your overprotective mother may have been right: Too much television may, in fact, kill you. A new international study is suggesting that anyone who spends more than four hours a day in front of any “screen-based entertainment” – be it television, videogames or the internet – is increasing their chance of heart attack or …
Boston-based Vitality has developed a prescription pill bottle cap with a built-in wireless chip that reminds you to take your medicine at a certain time every day. If you forget, it’ll call you or text you. If you need a refill, there’s a button inside the cap that’ll call your pharmacy. The whole system works as simple as plugging in a …
Video games get a bad rap as a sedentary, unhealthy pursuit. It’s one of the reasons the medium fights for respectability and probably one of the reasons the President calls out video games as often as he does.
Whatever you may think about the Wii, Nintendo has changed the way people think about what it means to play a video game. …
Kids love games and diabetic kids hate testing their blood sugars. Bayer hopes its new DIDGET meter, which connects to Nintendo DS and DS Lite systems, will convince diabetic kids to test their blood sugars more often.
The $75 system comes with a DS game called Knock ‘Em Downs: World’s Fair featuring “a full length adventure game
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In an interview with Techland, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts the existence of machines with human-level intelligence by 2029, offers advice to inventors, and discusses how you can prepare yourself for the very real possibility of human immortality in the not-too-distant future.
Dr. Kurzweil will be delivering a keynote …
