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Lumosity - all in one timewaster and brain exerciser
by Dolores Parker Jun 1st 2007 at 11:30AM
Lumosity, designed by neuroscientists, is scientifically demonstrated to improve your memory, attention and processing speed. Not bad huh? The best part is, it's very addictive - like gaming - you will want to increase your scores.
You can check your Lumos IQ without signing in but if you get hooked and want to try more exercises you will have to register. If you do sign up, you will go through a brain fitness program over the course of 30 sessions where the sessions are 15 minutes.
The exercises are free while the Lumos site is still in beta, but it won't be free forever.
Forget the crossword puzzle. It's so last century.
[via TechCrunch]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Peter said 1:19PM on 6-01-2007
133
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thecatt said 7:02PM on 6-01-2007
170 Overall
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Elsa said 7:16AM on 7-17-2007
I did it a couple of times: 114 and 141. Why would there be such a difference?
also, a great blog on attention and memory training is www.sharpbrains.com/blog, you'll enjoy
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