Engadget wrote this interesting article:
Gamers make better surgeons, study says
Doing a quick search reveals that Engadget wasn’t the only one who published such articles:
MSNBC: Surgeons may err less by playing video games
USA Today: Studies: Video games can make better students, surgeons
So, I am waiting for the studies that show that games make better programmers, or for Lorraine, time on the computer makes better husbands! I won’t hold my breath though.
Ever since my Uncle told me about the company Telsa, they have interested me. Engadget just published this article about the price of their new car, the Model S.
Engadget: Tesla CEO says Model S isn’t really expensive, when you think about it
Engadget seems to be doing to good job of keeping us up to date, so stay tuned.
This car looks exciting. Could it really be our next car? Well, judging from the fact that it hasn’t even hit the assembly line, I think it will be very hard to find on the used car lot!
We have always thought it would be fun to give GPS systems a personality. Rather than these nice robot sounding voices that say “Make a U-Turn at the next location”, we would laugh at something that would say, “Hey! Hey! You missed your turn! Where did you learn to drive? You need to be going the other direction!”
But, I don’t know if I ever would have taken it this far. A GPS that tries to run you off the side of a mountain!?
Engadget: Another UK driver nearly dies from following GPS instructions
Having an Open Source car sounds great! Where can I get one?
Engadget reported that Clemson created a device that measures to power of a Basketball dunk. Now, they need to measure the cool factor of it!
Clemson develops ballin’ system to measure slam dunk intensity
Roaming can get out of hand a little too easily.
Man charged $28,000 for using data card, Slingbox to watch football game
According to Engadget, South Korea is planning to build a Robot Land theme park. Sounds like fun, but it might be a little expensive for me to go to!
Last year, I stumbled upon a few more April Fool’s day links, but never got around to posting them. Here they are:
Since these jokes have caught my attention each year, I plan to start ahead of time rather than posting things late.
Engadget reported a project Kickbee, which allows a father to view the activity of his unborn child. You can view more pictures at the project page.
What would you think if we could have another child and we published its activity on the Internet?
How much do you know about Black Friday? Check out this little trivia post. If that doesn’t satisfy your quest for knowledge, check out the Wikipedia article.
