An Eye Tracker in Every Smartphone?
Eye Tribe wants to make eye tracking cheap and easy—as long as you don’t wear bifocals
Solar Robots, 4K TVs Spring Forward
Plus: the Woz-Cave and Waterproof Nanocoatings
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Kinect Fusion Lets You Build 3-D Models of Anything
The new API will make it easy to generate 3-D models with a handheld Kinect
Consumer Electronics Winners and Losers
Tablets were the brightest spot in sales for the U.S. 2012 holiday season
Etch A Sketch Was My First Videogame Machine
This “drawing” tool foreshadowed early video games
Gaming at CES 2013
Retrogaming made a splash at the show, with classic console emulators and pinball machines
CES 2013: Replacing the Game Board with a MultiTouch Computer
Intel’s vision of a family computer gets people out from behind their laptops and tablets
Glitch (the Game) Bites the Dust
MMO game can’t make enough money
New Kinect Design Trick: Handy Potter
Handy Potter and the virtual vase
Champions Declared in AI Poker Tournament
University of Alberta’s “Hyperborean” program wins three gold medals
Wii sales may recover, but kids will still be fat
Nintendo’s next version of its physical-fitness game console will do more for its bottom line than for kids’ big bottoms
Meet Hyperborean, the Poker-Playing AI
What strategies help a computer program win at Texas Hold 'Em?
A Texas Hold ‘Em Tournament for AIs
How—and why—computer programs face off over the poker table
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Demo Spring 2012: A Startup Is Born
A week before their launch at Demo Spring these four entrepreneurs hadn’t even met each other; now they have a company and (maybe) the next hit smartphone app.
Demo Spring 2012: Just for Fun
An electric skateboard and a fantasy politics game aren’t going to change the world, but sometimes it’s enough to just have fun.
With Jack Tramiel’s Passing, the PC Industry Loses Another Pioneer
Jack Tramiel’s Commodore 64 was my first computer, and I’ve got a lot of company.
Turning a DIY Project into a Product
Making something for others, instead of yourself, poses different challenges
CES 2012: Playing Asteroids With Just My Eyes
I checked out Tobii’s interactive gaze technology at the Consumer Electronics Show
CES 2012: Gadgets and Gizmos Galore
Cool, weird, frivolous, useful, wonderful, and what-were-they-thinking: gadgets experience a population explosion at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show
Data Mining Scrabble
A study of 10 million game simulations finds the true worth of Scrabble tiles
Words with Friends: Not Your Parents’ Scrabble
Words With Friends reinvents a 65-year-old board game for the iPhone era
Profile: Kim Swift
Kim Swift set out to design fun games that make her laugh
New Biosensor Chip Picks Up Heart Signals Remotely
The technology will also use body sensing for gaming, aiding the disabled, helping emergency responders, and switching on the lights
Gamers Help Solve AIDS Protein Mystery
Players of Foldit game solve retrovirus protein structure
A Transhuman Future
A neuroengineer infuses science in the next "Deus Ex" game to expose players to real-world mechanical augmentation
Microsoft Imagine Cup: Student Coders Compete For World Title
Twenty-one teams tackling some of the world's toughest problems advance to the final round
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How Sony's Antipiracy Approach Made It a Hacker Target
In the fight to control access to the PlayStation 3, Sony won a battle but lost much more
And Sega Makes Four: 1.29 Million User Accounts Compromised
Personal information but no credit card data taken
Facebook vs. Google: Game On
FarmVille has led a social-game ascendance that will sway the Facebook-Google struggle and threaten the digital gaming industry
Nintendo's 3DS: Best of a Dying Breed
Can Mario make the leap to 3-D?