Jamin Warren founded Killscreen. He produced the first VR arts festival with the New Museum, programmed the first Tribeca Games Festival, the first arcade at the Museum of Modern Art, won a Telly, and hosted Game/Show for PBS.
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Video Mind over matter? A team of researchers have demonstrated that humans with severe brain injuries can operate machines. Cathy Hutchinson has been unable to move her own arms or legs for 15 years. But using the most advanced brain-machine interface ever developed, she can steer a robotic arm to
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For videogames, space is essentially a given. The shipping lanes of Eve Online, the intergalactic machinations of Commander Shepard in Mass Effect — these are all rooted in the assumption that in the future, mankind’s destiny will be in the stars. In fact, we rarely reflect on what it would take to
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A new 3D project has turned the Great Pyramids into digital artifacts. A new project engineered by software design firm Dassault Systèmes, in collaboration with Harvard University and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, has recreated the wonder of the world. You can even use 3D glasses to view the en
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Forgive us for two social games harping in a day, but news from Japan caught our eye as they attempt to regulate gambling-style “compugacha” games. Players pay a small fee to receive a random in-game item and then attempt to collect all items to unlock an even bigger item. It’s basically the Price i
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Nicholas Carr pointed to a 2009 speech by futurist Bruce Sterling on the possibility of two different futures for technology. One potential futures digital consumers was “Gothic High-Tech” embodied in the life of Steve Jobs: In Gothic High-Tech, you’re Steve Jobs. You’ve built an iPhone which is a b
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When asked this week about his Facebook status during his second IAMA on Reddit, comedian Louis C.K. responded: “I killed my facebook page years ago because time clicking around is just dead time. Your brain isn’t resting and it isn’t doing. I think people have to get their heads around this thing.
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Video MIT grad student Charles Guan is man after my own heart. He has converted the go-kart designs from Mario Kart into a real-life mini-vehicle that can hit 26 MPH. It’s called “Chibikart,” it’s 34 inches long and 18 inches wide, and it is adorable. [via The Daily What Geek]
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Video We love physical objects (so much so, that we have a print magazine of our own), but with the competing forces of the Internet and tablet devices, it’s no surprise that that book as chief means of information has all but disappeared. There are those (like Jonathan Franzen) who wish to look bac
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If you’re not familiar with Able Gamers, you should be. A non-profit and affiliated gaming site for those of us who love games but are facing different challeneges via disability, AG has been a loud advocate for ensuring that all games are accessible for all of us. One of the big challenges, of cour
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Adult Swim Games has upped the ante on addictive infini-runner with Robot Unicorn Attack Evolved. Gameplay is the same, but there are now robotic pandas. That is all. Play it here!
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Video Andy Robertson of GeekDad will be using the videogame Flower for an upcoming religious service at the Exeter Cathedral: I was inspired to choose Flower for the Cathedral service after experiencing a public performance of it at the GameCity festival in 2009. There, the game was performed by one
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Video An industrious team of arcade-loving programmers finally have created the lifelong dream of bringing Frogger into being. I was always curious how an actual frog would fare in actual traffic. (Actually I haven’t.) There’s no real frog but I will say that 5th and 17th is no place for an amphibia