This week, the NEC in Birmingham becomes the home of the Gadget Show LIVE. Based around the popular Channel 5 programme the exhibition hall will be packed with all the very best cutting edge technology. Exhibitors include Microsoft, LG, Acer, JVC, Lenovo, Game, Alpine, Orange (EE) and Freesat, so we will be able to get...
‘I am thou…thou art I’ the theme of personal acceptance is integral to Persona 4: Golden, a Vita remake of the PS2 JRPG. It’s something lots of games touch upon, but it’s essential to your progression here. Characters must face the part of themselves that they are keeping in the shadows in order to unlock...
Without a doubt, OUYA is one of the most ambitious crowd-funded projects ever. What makes OUYA so interesting is that this project is not only trying to build a new gaming console, it is attempting to revolutionise the console landscape. By running an open version of Google’s Android system OUYA has been designed around the...
This week Redbrick seeks to explore Crowdfunding, the vibrant new business model emerging from a combination of raw entrepreneurship and consumer solidarity, each day increasing in popularity, respectability and accumulated successes. In Crowdfunding, proposers launch campaigns which promise to deliver what is usually an innovative new product – technology, art or science – in return...
E3 2005: Sony announces its third home console the PlayStation 3. Much more powerful than anything else on the market, most thought it would continue Sony’s dominance of the games industry. 8 years on, PlayStation 3 ends the console generation in joint second place behind Nintendo’s massively popular Wii. This generation has been exciting in...
Located in the brain’s medial temporal lobe, the amygdala is an almond-shape set of neurons linked to both fear responses and pleasure. Previous research had indicated that the amygdala was the main source of fear in the human mind. However, a paper published earlier this month has shown that this is not the case, and...
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