Researchers create video game that monitors heart rate to keep children’s anger in check
By Alexis Santos posted Oct 26th 2012 10:28AM Nintendo may have left its Vitality Sensor by the wayside, but researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital are using heart rate monitoring in a video game to teach children with anger issues how to temper their emotions. Dubbed RAGE (Regulate and Gain Emotional) Control, the game tasks players with blasting hostile spaceships while keeping their heart rate from exceeding a predefined...
Samsung launches $250 Exynos 5-based Arndale community board for app developers
By Steve Dent posted Oct 26th 2012 10:52AM If you’re looking to create that perfect multi-threaded, NFC, GPS-based OpenCL app (and who isn’t?), but found your development board options too limited, Samsung has good news. It’s just launched the Arndale community development board around its Exynos 5 Dual SoC, with the ARM Cortex-A15 dual-core CPU and ARM Mali T604 GPU. Those specs give the board “an order of...
Apple Reports Third Quarter Results
Board Declares Quarterly Dividend of $2.65 per Common ShareCUPERTINO, California—July 24, 2012—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 third quarter ended June 30, 2012. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $35.0 billion and quarterly net profit of $8.8 billion, or $9.32 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $28.6 billion and net profit of $7.3 billion, or $7.79 per diluted share, in the...
Feds arrest Ceglia for trying to defraud Facebook, Zuckerberg
The FBI has arrested Paul Ceglia for attempting to defraud Facebook and its co-founder Mark Zuckerberg in a scheme to grab a large stake in the company and billions of dollars. Federal agents picked up 39-year-old Ceglia at his home in Wellsville, N.Y. this morning, according to a report in Forbes. Ceglia first filed a lawsuit in June 2010, claiming he signed a contract with Zuckerberg that entitles him to 84% ownership of what is...
Engadget Podcast 315 – 10.26.2012
By Trent Wolbe posted Oct 26th 2012 11:07AM We’ve stopped calling weeks like these “big” because that gives them too much credit for essentially trying to destroy us, from a journalistic perspective, without actually destroying us. From now on we’re only calling weeks “big” if they include the singularity or a human massacre in Pittsburgh, thank you very much. Hosts: Brian HeaterGuests: Terrence...
