Subject to Change

H/T Geekologie

What do you get when you combine Dance Dance Revolution and a flame thrower?

This!

It might look crazy, but it’s probably safer than playing Nintendo’s Wii.

Owen beat me to this story.

A few years ago, I heard about a device that could read a wearer’s emotional state. The future of gaming is going to be really fun, and really creepy.

Now that the PS3 has a medical use, do you suppose I can get the state to subsidize my purchase?

Distributed computing, which shares the load across millions of computers worldwide, allows the task of analyzing simulations to happen much, much faster than if the simulations were run on a single computer. Sony says that were the simulations to run on a single machine, it would take 30 years before you’d have a result.

But as the Cell chip is, according to Sony, around 10 to 30 times faster than the chip in a regular PC (depending on the chip, of course, with newer PC chips much faster and more capable than older ones), the process is not only much faster, but multiplied even more when run on millions of PS3s, which it could well be should users decide to download the Folding@home application to run on their PS3s and to contribute valuable computing time to the project. 

Maybe I can use my flexible spending account to purchase one with pre-tax dollars.