Pondlife Pac-Man

Play God

Replacing game avatars with living molecules is the next step in gaming according to Riedel Kruse, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University. He is part of a team developing 'biotic games' that enable users to control creatures such as paramecia, single celled organisms that live in pondwater, in a game similar to Pac-Man. 

The team hope that these developments will inspire interest in biology, according to an interview with Stanford News

You can try out a biotic game on Kruse's website 

Via Discover Magazine and Lab on a Chip

Social connectivity

New research in the US shows that the online population are more group-oriented than their offline peers:

• 80% of internet users participate in groups, compared with 56% of non-internet users. 

Via Pew Research Centre's Internet & American Life Project, The social side of the Internet


Twitter takeover
Twitter is now available in Korean, the seventh language available on the social networking site. 
Via Mashable


Geo-tag whatever the weather
Fujifilm is soon to launch an extra tough digital camera, FinePix XP30, featuring GPS geo-tagging of pictures. The camera will withstand water, shock, dust and even freezing.

Via gizmag

Bitter sweet
Sugar magazine is closing as digital natives ditch print for the Internet. 

Image via Madnews
Via New Media Age


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Vashti