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Toylet
A Japanese entertainment company has combined men’s obsession with video games with their perennial inability to aim straight to create a range of distractions in selected Tokyo urinals.
 

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Chess grand masters use different parts of their brains than amateur palyers.
Professional chess players have long stumped fans with how they make killer moves so swiftly and intuitively , and a Japanese study published on Friday may have unlocked their secret .
 

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Riders waiting for Muni buses at select stops in downtown will be passing the time playing video games, as well as the opportunity to win a concert by OK Go.
Yahoo recently installed huge poster-size touchscreens at 20 San Francisco bus stops, allowing commuters to play online games against people at other bus stops. Nothing brings [...]

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Ready for some Knokkers?
Steve Wienecke of Fredericktown, Missouri invented a game that he calls “Knokkers”. It’s similar to pool, but played on a surface scaled four times larger than a regulation pool table and with six-pound bowling balls. Wienecke hopes to one day see Knokkers platforms on cruise ships and in amusement parks and restaurants…

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Have you played the newest highly addictive Facebook game yet?
Zynga, the social games company behind Facebook games FarmVille and Mafia Wars, has accomplished a staggering feat with their latest offering, CityVille: While the game only launched on December 2nd, it’s managed to amass 70 million active users over the course of this past month, according to AppData’s independent analytics, 14 [...]

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The Manéa is for sharpening your mind
In the very recent years, one of the best things to show up in newspapers are the Sudoku puzzles that often show up next to crossword puzzles. These numerical crosswords have become the mind-bending addiction that people sit on buses or at their desks trying to figure out as [...]

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The demo video shows a man controlling a floating hand to ‘interact’ with video game characters.
It really was only a matter of time.
For while Microsoft’s innovative Kinect controller was designed for family fun it has already been hacked so it can be used in a different way entirely: sex.
 

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Game For Cats has a title that’s about as literal as they come. It’s a game. For cats.
 

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Fans celebrate Angry Birds Day
It may sound like a tough sell: a game that involves catapulting birds at elaborate fortresses constructed by evil pigs.  But Angry Birds, a hit game by Rovio, a small Finnish company, is one of the unlikeliest pop-culture crazes of the year — and perhaps the first to make the leap from [...]

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Featured invention at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase
Lucky-chess is a game method that allows regular chess to be played with cards and dice.
 

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Meat Ball in the corner pocket

A dining table that can also be used as a pool table. Now playing pool is possible within your apartment and won’t even take up a lot of space. Never mind those holes in the wall or the sauce on the table felt. (Pics)

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Brain games hide but do not prevent the progression of Alzheimer’s.
Crossword puzzles and other mentally stimulating pursuits may hide but not prevent the progress of Alzheimer’s disease, research has shown.  Evidence suggests that adults who keep their brains active by reading, listening to the radio or doing puzzles, can delay the onset of dementia. But [...]

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The board game of impending doom?

In 1970, BP collaborated with boardgame maker PrintBox of Scotland to come up with a game that is eerily prescient of the Gulf incident. The game BP Offshore Oil Strike didn’t catch on, and thus became somewhat of a collector’s item. BLDGBLOG got its hands on one:
With this “exciting board [...]

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Paul the psychic octopus
Paul the “psychic” octopus, who has become a global star after correctly forecasting all six of Germany’s World Cup games, will predict the final, but only if his hefty workload has not exhausted him.

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Brazilian referees are studying English obscenities for the Englad-U.S. World Cup Match.
Brazilian referees for this weekend’s England-United States match at the World Cup in South Africa are studying English-language obscenities so that players can’t get away with abuse, the Associated Press reports.