Showing posts with label games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label games. Show all posts

November 12, 2009

Got kids? We got an Apps for them too!

For those who have kids, an iTouch, or an iPhone you might like to check out Tickle Tap Apps. They focus mainly on educational games such as number counting, shape matching, and color learning.



March 24, 2009

Virtual Gold Farming in China?



About 130 other workers work for is Wow7gold, an Internet based company that makes more than £1m or $1.2 million a year selling in-game advantages to World of Warcraft players.

Researcher Richard Heeks at Manchester University, estimated 400,000 Asian workers are now employed in gold farming in a trade worth up to £700m or $879 million a year.

Li Hua one of the worker for gold farming in china earns £80-£120 ($80-150) a month.

Another, Eva Yuan, a 26 year-old graduate from a university who also speaks three different languages and earns up to £250 ($300.00) a month with the same conditions as Li Hua.

"virtual sweatshops" ?

"virtual division of labor"?

"power leveling"

"play money"?

World of Warcraft’s subscriptions alone went from 10m to more than 11m during 2008.

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March 13, 2009

Mind controls that could be worth billions?


Design by Emotiv

Smart, ambitious, and disciplined Tan Le President, Co Founder Emotiv Systems predict in ten years:

  • We will go around in a world that will respond to our mental commands.
  • Fed by data wirelessly streaming in from a few freckle-size sensors embedded in your scalp.
  • Your stereo will know when you are feeling blue and what sort of music cheers you up.
  • Movies will know when you are getting bored and cut to the action.
  • Car advertisers will know when you are feeling the need for speed.
  • Your doctor will know when you are depressed.
  • Doors will open at your mental command.
But for now Emotiv is exploring with entertainment such as gaming, now you will be able to vaporize onscreen enemies with an angry thought, have your online characters smile when you smile, and see video games react to your level of excitement.

Emotiv already got 5,000 preordered through their website at $299.

January 1, 2009

iPhone + SGN = iFun?

iGolf? iBaseball? iBasketball? iBowl?

Thanks to SGN now we can use the iPhone or iTouch as iMote!

Unlike the Wii remote your iPhone or iTouch have NO strap so becareful!

Enjoy and iFUN.




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