Filed under: Fun, Internet, Time-Wasters
Lumosity - all in one timewaster and brain exerciser
by Dolores Parker Jun 1st 2007
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]
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
