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Video Games

gamer — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:44:55 +0000

Whether to limit the time that a child plays video games is a question that almost every parent has battled over at least once and often many times. However, just because one parent has a specific opinion about it does not mean that another parent holds the same opinion. In other words, whether a parent should limit his or her childs time playing video games is a largely subjective, opinion question. There are, though, some signs that a parent should look for when trying to make a determination as to whether the time that his or her kid is spending on video games is too much.

If a kid who is playing video games is paying so much attention to them that his or her schoolwork is suffering, a parent might want to limit the video game time that child has. In addition, if relationships are suffering because of video games, this might also be another reason to limit the amount of time spent playing them. Video games are supposed to be for fun and enjoyment only. Unfortunately, they can actually become addictive. When someone is addicted to video games, the rest of that persons life suffers. He or she will generally not do well at all with school or work, and the relationships that have been built with others will be ignored, at least to some extent.

The person may also lose sleep, not eat well, and exhibit other behaviors consistent with focusing too much on video games and not enough on reality. This is, of course, very detrimental, especially for a child who is just developing habits. Because this is such a serious issue and can lead to many problems in the future, any parent who is concerned about how much time his or her kid is spending playing video games or any parent who sees a change in his or her child because of video game playing should limit the time each day that the child is allowed to play the video game.

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gamer — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:27:34 +0000

Some medical studies conclude that too much playing video games can be harmful to health. But now one game console that was popular the Xbox 360 Video Games can be used to save a life.

Computer scientist at the University of Warwick in England has found a way to detect heart defects and prevent heart attacks by using the Xbox 360 console . This new tool has more potential than the medical devices currently used, because this instrument can detect faster, better and cheaper than a computer system that is currently used to perform complex heart research.

The system used is based on a video game created by Simon Scarle on two years ago. Scarle change a chip in the console resulting graph is not a game. From the results it can provide data on how the electrical signals in the heart of a useful move to see if there are heart cells are damaged. In addition, this tool could allow physicians to identify defects or patients heart condition.

"It is very clever to accelerate the calculation of heart rhythm that is usually done within hours, can now be done in seconds," said Denis Noble, Director of Computational Physiology at Oxford University, as reported by TIME, Tuesday (29/9/2009).

Scarle find this idea from a game of "little shooter game" ever developed by him, which in this game players try to shoot down the enemy with is in this tool is meant heart. Developments of these tools do at the University of Sheffield in England.

Xbox 360 is not the only device that can be used for scientific research. At the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth in the United States, researchers using a Sony PlayStation Video Games to simulate black hole collisions in solving the mystery of space. But the difference between the Xbox games developed for research related to health and save a life.

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