The key to learning, Negroponte’s fellow panelists agreed, is to engage children rather than simply talk at them. Smart phones, tablets and video game systems are often seen as distractions to school children in developed [...]

CVG has the word about Microsoft’s next technology that’s supposedly being developed for the next Xbox console. This new gaming tech denotes a breakthrough device, currently referred to as the “environmental display,” which was designed to project 360-degree [...]

The Surface tablet runs a variation of Windows 8 In its most strategically significant push yet into the hardware business, Microsoft on Monday unveiled a tablet computer called Surface that is intended to challenge Apple’s [...]

The Leap is available to pre-order now for $70   It seems Minority Report-style computer interfaces might arrive a whole lot sooner than we expected: A new USB device, called The Leap, creates an 8-cubic-feet [...]

A new online game aims to help the U.S. Navy improve its combat capability and energy security   The year is 2022, and for the fourth time the Navy was the last contingent to arrive [...]

Allows interaction between the virtual world and reality A new game robot concept developed by KAIST researchers came in first place at a world-renowned virtual reality exhibition, despite being the first ever entry by a [...]

Social games like FarmVille boost charitable causes—and burnish the reputations of blemished brands When Japan was hit last year with one of the biggest earthquakes ever measured, Laura Hartman received a text from her brother. [...]

Lets charities fundraise by allowing players of social games to buy virtual items linked to a charity PlayMob, whose product GiverBoard lets charities fundraise via a clever in-game micro-payment mechanic, has secured £500,000 ($787,000) funding [...]

The panel was developed for arcade table games The Gunze touch panel uses electrodes around the edge of the display and could accurately distinguish who is touching the screen and register multiple users. The touchscreen [...]

There are also several potential applications in the gaming world   A pocket-size microscope accessory developed by Finnish scientists will be accurate to one hundredth of a millimetre. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has [...]

THIS WEEKEND gaming company Mojang will attempt to create a fully-functional new game in 60 hours.   The event will be streamed live on onHumbleBundle.com, a site that allows buyers to split the revenue between [...]

Jane McGonigal asks: Why doesn’t the real world work more like an online game?   In the best-designed games, our human experience is optimized: We have important work to do, we’re surrounded by potential collaborators, [...]