June 2013

“Father of Video Games” Nolan Bushnell on Learning through Gaming

Produced by Tracy Oppenheimer for ReasonTV, camera by Alex Manning. “People who play video games have much better computational skills, much better logic skills, much better search and cognitive skills than kids who don’t,” says Nolan Bushnell, author of Finding the Next Steve Jobs, founder of Brainrush, and the entrepreneur often described as the “father

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Chef in a Box

  By CAL Entertainment Exclusive Pablos, and Nathan Myhrvold for Ieee.org  Have you seen a vending machine lately? Most are still pretty basic: Put in some cash and out comes a can or package. But the most advanced models have computer processors and touch-screen displays that let you customize your order to a remarkable degree. Touch-screen drink

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