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I stumbled over this site today: Do Nothing for 2 minutes . The site presents the user with a very simple challenge: can you keep yourself from touching your computer for two minutes? When the user enters the site a serene ocean view and the sound of waves displayed. The instructions ask to sit back and relax without touching your mouse or keyboard, and then a two minute timer begins counting down. If the user touches the mouse or the keyboard, a FAIL message appears, and the clock reset itself. The site is very simple, but is gaining a lot of attention worldwide. In spite...

According to  a report on Mashable , Panasonic’s VIERA Connect TVs, in collaboration with NordicTrack, unveiled a television at CES that lets you experience virtual trails straight from your living room. The HDTV displays Google Maps and communicates inclinations of hills and valleys to the treadmill. The machine is also able to incline itself at the appropriate times, matching those...

June 19th to 22nd 2011 in Gatineau, Canada This year the Interactive Media Institute (IMI) and Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) are organizing the 16th Annual CyberPsychology and...

Participatory medicine is a new trend in e-health that proposes an active role of the patient in medical care. According to the board of the Society of Participatory Medicine , this is...

We have just released a new video introducing the INTERSTRESS project , an EU-funded initiative that aims to design, develop and test an advanced ICT-based solution for the assessment and...