Gamers just want to have “Phun”

I saw yesterday that a Swedish researcher at Umeå University VRlab had released the latest version of “Phun”. This is software that takes anything you can draw… and animates it with real world physics. This kind of reminds me of Crayon Physics, which does the physics, but makes it into a puzzle game. Phun gives … Read more

Sympathy for the Daniel

There’s a boy out there, crying in shame because he cannot understand blogs. He needs all our help. His name is Daniel. And he cannot understand blogs. I couldn’t understand some parts of this article rana » EQ2: Nice while it lasted — Clan of Shadows declines the haffer, but I guess I just need … Read more

Your Wednesday Science Update

This just in: A fictional SF drama with ghosts, time displacement, smoke monsters, numerology, and psychics uses satellite phones not available in the real world. We now return you to CSI: Miami, where forensic pathologists using real-world techniques get a full color picture of a man by zooming in on the reflection on the eyeball … Read more