Turn up the volume and enjoy Bass Invaders by Hexstaticexstatic are Stuart Warren Hill and Robin Brunson, and together they have been consistently breaking new ground in Audio and Visual entertainment since 1995. Hexstatic started experimenting with video at the first Big Chill festival and then went on to become resident VJ’s at Ninjatune’s famous Stealth night and a host of other UK clubs. They collaborated with Coldcut and Greenpeace for the Natural Rhythms Trilogy, which included the award winning AV single Timber.  Source : Accent Feed

 Toy Manufacturer Brumm unveiled its Little Boy and Fat Man 1:43 scale model atom bombs, the ones used to kill over 500,000 civilians when the US bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of the Second World War.Source: From The Box 

Multimodal interaction provides the user with multiple modes of interfacing with a system beyond the traditional keyboard and mouse input/output. The most common such interface combines a visual modality (e.g. a display, keyboard, and mouse) with a voice modality (speech recognition for input, speech synthesis and recorded audio for output). However other modalities, such as pen-based input or haptic input/output, may be used. Multimodal user interfaces are a research area in human-computer interaction.The advantage of multiple modalities is increased usability: the weaknesses of one modality are offset by the strengths of another.

    If you're into Flash games, you should check out 3D Arcade.  I came across this website acciedntly and found myself playing games like there's no tomorrow.The time it took me to buy the mention in "Mansion impossible" was 32 years by the way. I guess I shouldn't go into real estate. Who said you can't learn anything playing games.

A few months ago, Capt. Alon Pereg,  who was about to command the next 737NG pilot's course of EL AL airlines, had an idea - the trainees could practice Airliner procedures, 737 automation (FMC) and ATC communications during the ground school stages of the course by flying online. He approached Kobi David, Vatsim Israel's CEO. Alon and Kobi went to the home cockpit of a Vatsim member, and took the PMDG 737 for a ride. Alon was very impressed with this demonstration, and now the ball was at his hands.Now, seven months later, members of VATIL, the Israeli branch of vatsim.net Virtual Air Traffic Flight Simulation Network, are part of the view in the training center.

Doctors at Shiba Hospital in Israel have found an effective way to improve the recovery of severe burns patients using Sony Playstation game consoles.According to the doctors, the patients, usually partially covered in special bondages, sink into the games and forget the pains caused by the burns. This results in body moves that the patients would not be able to do without the distractions.  The body moves speed up recovery and reduce pains.Tom Karney, a patient who suffers from burns in his hands and legs from campfire accident says "I'm used to playing with the Playstation, but here it has a lot more meaning.

The competition between gaming companies keeps them on the edge of Computer graphics development. The holy grail for them is of course to render live computer graphics that looks real.The pictures below from Infinity Labs show a real scenario photo and it's computer generated equivalent from Cry Engine 2. Cry Engine 2 is the next generation grapics engine made by Ubisoft, the company behind FarCry and many other hits. We numbered the photos and leave it to you to guess which one is the real one and which is the computer generated one. Answers at the bottom.   Image 1  

If you want to find an evidence of women’s right or the equity between men and women, some trivia about games would be a very interesting resource. No joking at all! Along with the fast boom in economy, women’s life has been changing a lot. A woman is no longer known as a housewife, who is unemployed and spends the whole life to “serve” her husband and children. Especially in China, which is partly known by its strong feudal system and where male chauvinism more or less still exits, one third of game players are women. According to the General Administration of Press and Publication of China, Game industry revenue of 2005 hit 3.77 billion yuan, up 53 percent compared with the statistic in 2004.