Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Phone with Human Skin Feel?
Apparently... LG has come out with a phone that is only in Korea right now but will eventually be here with keypads that feel like human skin! I heard about this through the engadget blog. I can't decide whether I think this is cool or really creepy. I wonder if people will actually buy this...
Sunday, March 23, 2008
College Rivals Online Video Game
Apparently, a new online video game is out that was created at Yale last September. It's called GoCrossCampus (GXC).
The game is a competition between colleges, specific groups on just one campus, or even companies. The idea is to win and takeover the most(or all) territory. There are ten different competitions going on at the web site now. A couple of them are over and have a winner. Some of the games have hundreds of people competiting. One example of a game that I saw was called the Florida Championship and many schools in Florida were competiting in this game including, The University of Florida, Florida State, Florida Atlantic, and University of South Florida.
The GXC Overview on the web site said:
10 games
22,356 players
80 teams
182,911 chat posts
1,636,857 armies placed
182 commanders elected
42 commanders impeached
376 spies convicted
1,829 territories conquered
This is also used as a social site during the games because you can chat with people.
One girl in the NYT article said she started playing the game because her mom played and had reconnected with some of her college friends through the web site.
It sounds pretty interesting, kinda funny, but I could understand if you started playing this that it would become addicting. And now there is competition arising with a similar game called Turf. There is more information about this game in Brad Stone's article in the New York Times.
The game is a competition between colleges, specific groups on just one campus, or even companies. The idea is to win and takeover the most(or all) territory. There are ten different competitions going on at the web site now. A couple of them are over and have a winner. Some of the games have hundreds of people competiting. One example of a game that I saw was called the Florida Championship and many schools in Florida were competiting in this game including, The University of Florida, Florida State, Florida Atlantic, and University of South Florida.
The GXC Overview on the web site said:
10 games
22,356 players
80 teams
182,911 chat posts
1,636,857 armies placed
182 commanders elected
42 commanders impeached
376 spies convicted
1,829 territories conquered
This is also used as a social site during the games because you can chat with people.
One girl in the NYT article said she started playing the game because her mom played and had reconnected with some of her college friends through the web site.
It sounds pretty interesting, kinda funny, but I could understand if you started playing this that it would become addicting. And now there is competition arising with a similar game called Turf. There is more information about this game in Brad Stone's article in the New York Times.
Sunday, March 2, 2008
It Takes Work to Stop Work
I read a story (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/fashion/02sabbath.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=technology), today about a reporter who took a day off of technology. He decided he wanted to do this when he was on a plane flight and decided to call someone from their phones on the plane. He realized then that even his one moment where he was allowed to be away from his phone was taken away now. His decision to do this made start worrying that he would make people worry about him because they couldn't get in touch or if something bad happened he wouldn't be able to find out about it. He couldn't decide if he was addicted to technology or if this really was a logical worry. The first day he tried this he said he was ansy for the first part of the day but he read the entire newspaper and kept himself from thinking about all the work he was going to have to do the next day. Now he takes time off regularly and has time to read, take naps and exercise.
I thought this was a great idea. I don't know about an entire day but having some time every now and then set for no technology I think would be a great idea for everyone. The story also talks about other ways people have used this theory. For example, Nathan Zeldes, a principal engineer at Intel, is trying out the idea of every week having one morning where employees come to work but don't work online.
I thought this was a great idea. I don't know about an entire day but having some time every now and then set for no technology I think would be a great idea for everyone. The story also talks about other ways people have used this theory. For example, Nathan Zeldes, a principal engineer at Intel, is trying out the idea of every week having one morning where employees come to work but don't work online.
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