Tag: Gaming

A mobile unit provides energy fast during power cuts. Fancy a cosy film night with friends but don’t have access to a home cinema system? Look no further than this California-based startup, which is converting trailers into mini-cinemas. Equipped with an 100 inch screen, sound system and bar, the makeshift theatre allows consumers to watch their favourite series or...

Trees planted by companies can be a playful enterprise. But all game-designers need programming skills. Right? Wrong. A new platform developed by an English startup allows games to be designed intuitively. Ready-made figures, obstacles and collectable objects can be selected from a menu, with additional criteria such as size, position and movement completing the animation. Keyboard controls are quickly...

With the right equipment, children with disabilities can operate computers. Now, together with the Technical University in Berlin, a German startup has developed an online course to make coding more accessible for 7-16 year-olds. Once a week in one-hour video chats, trained coaches explain how code is developed. In small groups, children then learn about Python in a playful...

Given the right entertainment factor, people are happy to go without plastic bottles. Now, a Brazilian startup is helping children and young people on the autism spectrum to learn through play. Their app is based on specialist knowledge and uses the effect of visual perception, which, after all, is closely related to rational thinking and emotional intelligence. An association...

Old plastic bottles can be made into tiny houses, but it's better to dispense with single-use plastic altogether. A schoolgirl from the UAE encouraged 314 pupils from 7th grade to do just that. Her method? Individual barcodes for those with returnable bottles. These were scanned at the start of the school day, creating data sets about pupils’ habits. Leaderboards...

Cookery courses bring variety to our home-cooking. Virtual boot camps help women teach themselves how to code games. Now, with her California-based startup, a Ukrainian founder has developed a platform which allows female authors and diverse creators to turn their novels into games for mobile devices. No coding knowledge required. Gaming fans can currently choose from 3,500 different stories...

We can’t breathe underwater. Or without trees that bind CO2. Now, a not-for-profit startup from Berlin has taken a playful approach to encourage the planting of trees. Their concept? A club, which businesses from the games industry can join for a fee in order to support certified conservation and reforestation projects. Measures taken against deforestation in the real world...

Playing an instrument requires dexterity and lots of practice. People whose arm strength has been compromised, because of a stroke, for example, are often reliant on physiotherapy. Special sensors can help retrain patients' grip. But the speed at which arm strength can be rebuilt depends on the availability and cost of appointments. A research team from Imperial College, London,...