News tagged with excessive gamers

Excessive gaming associated with poor sleep hygiene and increased sleepiness

Computer/console gamers who play for more than seven hours a week and who identify their gaming as an addiction sleep less during the weekdays and experience greater sleepiness than casual or non-gamers, according ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 08, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 5




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Georgia Tech proposes Internet consumer nutrition label

When it comes to broadband speeds, U.S. Internet service providers (ISPs) largely deliver on their promises, says a report issued today by the Federal Communications Commission, but "throughput" is only one of several metrics ...

Technology / Telecom

created Aug 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

US Supreme Court to hear videogames free speech case

The US Supreme Court prepared to hear arguments on Tuesday on whether a California ban on the sale or rental of violent videogames to minors is unconstitutional.

Technology / Other

created Nov 01, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

There will be more hard-core shooters, and 3-D will be more prevalent

The Electronic Entertainment Expo shrank into the shadows in 2007, after some game companies sobered up from the wretched excesses of previous shows with their ear-splitting demos, scantily clad models and million-dollar ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jun 13, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Developing countries benefit from online gold rush

(PhysOrg.com) -- Impatient online computer gamers have sparked a new industry in developing countries – by paying fellow gamers real cash in return for financial help in the virtual world.

Technology / Other

created Sep 15, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Video game technology may help surgeons operate on beating hearts

Surgery has been done inside some adults' hearts while the heart is still beating, avoiding the need to open the chest, stop the heart and put patients on cardiopulmonary bypass. But to perform intricate beating-heart ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 10, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

NVIDIA Reveals First Next-Generation GeForce 9 Series GPU

NVIDIA Corporation has unveiled the first graphics processing unit (GPU) of its next-generation GeForce 9 Series that may offer the largest single-generation performance jump in the Company’s history. Introduced ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Feb 21, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (24) | comments 4

Rockin’ around the Wii: Video games fun but pose social, health risks

Move over Tickle Me Elmo. The recently released Nintendo Wii and Playstation 3 video game systems are rivaling the giggling red monster as the gifts children beg their parents for most this holiday season.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 07, 2006 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (13) | comments 0


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