Kid-Tested: Three Projectile Weapons for Indoor Warfare
Editor’s note: Zing Toys sent us several boxes of its newest office weapons this week. We took advantage of “Take Our Children to Work Day” to kid-test the toys with the children of various Wired employees. These are their unedited reactions. Z-X Crossbow ($26) “I think it’s awesome and I really want it. It shoots hecka far and it sticks to stuff.”...
Read MoreWelcome to the Tegra Zone, Get Ready!
While we wait patiently for the arrival of some of the more serious Tegra 2-powered devices – the Motorola Xoom and ATRIX spring to mind – anyone with the LG Optimus 2X, or another Tegra 2 phone or tablet for that matter, should download the Tegra Zone app from the Android Market, as it’s exactly what your new super-phone has been waiting for. Released today, the free...
Read More‘Solipskier’ Is a 2-D Timewaster That Combines Skiing and Drawing
Filed under: Video Games, Web Our favorite online games are the simple ones with a high-replay value (e.g., 'Canabalt'). It doesn't hurt if they're free, either. The latest title to drag down our productivity is a 2-D side-scroller called 'Solipskier' that asks gamers to guide a stick-figure skier down the slopes -- while drawing those said slopes. Like we said, it isn't a complex game, with the...
Read More‘Achievement Unlocked 2′ Revives the Blue Elephant for Time Wasting Fun
Filed under: Video Games, Web If you're looking for a way to blow off work (or recover from that marathon session of 'StarCraft II'), there's now a sequel to everybody's favorite meta-flash game, and, yes, it has even more possible achievements than the original. 'Achievement Unlocked 2' stars everybody's favorite blue elephant as it runs, jumps, dies, stands still, avoids death by spikes,...
Read More‘Foldit’ Lets Gamers Unintentionally Make Scientific Breakthroughs
Filed under: Video Games Foldit may seem like a relatively straightforward game, but the scientific theory behind it is anything but. Created by Washington University's Seth Cooper, the game requires players to deconstruct the complex, three-dimensional structures of various proteins -- a task typically left to biochemistry PhD students or researchers. Foldit, though, allows even novices to enter...
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