Joseph Bernstein

So, did blowing into NES cartridges work?

Mental Floss investigates a mystery that has haunted me for more than two decades.  So, dear readers, all signs point to no: blowing in the cartridge did not help. My money is on the blowing thing being a pure placebo, offering the user just another chance at getting a good connection. The problems

Sony filed patent for biometric data collector

Via Joystiq, some excellent future-shock news for this first Monday of fall 2012. Just say that outloud. Fall 2012! We are actually already living in the future. Next year is flippin’ 2013! Ok: The patent, titled “Process and Apparatus for Automatically Identifying User of Consumer Electronics,” des

EA used college athletes’ real names in development of NCAA bball game

Anyone who plays college sports videogames will know the absurd experience of playing as athletes modeled faithfully in appearance and ability after current college players, who are referred in the game to only by number. This, of course, is a consequence of the NCAA’s prohibition against amateur at