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Toward long-range beach forecasts on bacterial contamination

Toward long-range beach forecasts on bacterial contamination

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 30, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Long-range forecasts of beach bacterial contamination are inching closer to reality because of a new water quality prediction method scheduled for publication in the July 15 issue of the ACS' Environmental Sc ...


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Is Second Life's Economy Too Big To Fail?

Technology / Internet

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1

One of the more interesting developments in terms of technology is the virtual economy -- and how it translates into something that involves real money.


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FTC warns of explicit content in virtual worlds

Technology / Internet

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 1

The US consumer protection agency warned parents Thursday that children can easily bypass age requirements in virtual worlds and access violent or sexually explicit content.


Virtual reality games could help bullying victims

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Virtual reality games could help children to escape victimisation and bullying at school, according to researchers at the University of Warwick.


Crushing cigarettes in a virtual reality environment reduces tobacco addiction

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Smokers who crushed computer-simulated cigarettes as part of a psychosocial treatment program in a virtual reality environment had significantly reduced nicotine dependence and higher rates of tobacco abstinence than smokers ...


Visit Pompeii with the Victorians in Second Life

Visit Pompeii with the Victorians in Second Life

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A 3D recreation of a Roman house in Pompeii has been built in the virtual world Second Life by Dr Shelley Hales and Dr Nic Earle from the University of Bristol.


Virtual solution to driving phobias

Virtual solution to driving phobias

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nervous drivers are being helped to overcome their road phobias by donning Cyclops-style goggles that transport them to a three-dimensional virtual world.


Milling and drilling in cyberspace

Milling and drilling in cyberspace

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Machinists, NC programmers or mechatronics engineers -- trainees in engineering jobs often have to master complex equipment. In the future, trainees will practice and learn milling, turning, drilling and programming ...


Building real security with virtual worlds

Building real security with virtual worlds

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Advances in computerized modeling and prediction of group behavior, together with improvements in video game graphics, are making possible virtual worlds in which defense analysts can explore ...


Imagine Peace Tower lights in Second Life

Technology / Internet

created Oct 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Just hours after Friday's annual lighting of the Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland, a virtual version of the tribute to late Beatle John Lennon opened in online world Second Life.


Researchers Bring Avatars and People Together for Virtual Meetings in Physical Spaces (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- While you can't yet teleport or clone yourself to be in two places nearly at once, computer scientists are working on what might be the next best thing.


Experimental phone network uses virtual sticky notes

Technology / Internet

created Jun 19, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

The rapid convergence of social networks, mobile phones and global positioning technology has given Duke University engineers the ability to create something they call "virtual sticky notes," site-specific messages that people ...


Virtual maps for the blind

Technology / Software

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The blind and visually impaired often rely on others to provide cues and information on navigating through their environments. The problem with this method is that it doesn't give them the tools to venture out on their own, ...


A woman chats with an avatar via the internet

Second Life creates virtual world for businesses

Technology / Internet

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Linden Lab on Wednesday announced it is adding a new dimension to Second Life online world to give businesses private places for virtual meetings.


Increased success a 'virtual' certainty for rugby players (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rugby players worldwide could benefit from a new virtual reality training programme created at Queen's University Belfast. Team members from Ulster Rugby have been working with researchers in the School of Psychology at Queen's ...