In another example of how video games are infiltrating healthcare, North Carolina-based Virtual Heroes is using consumer entertainment technology to create realistic medical simulations that can teach people to heal. Duke University School of Medicine is embracing this concept. The school is partnering...

There’s been quite a lot in the news recently about the role of video games in healthcare. The Nintendo Wii makes us more active. Games such as Immune Attack give students a basic grasp understanding of the immune system. But there’s more to this than exercise and education. Video games are...

There’s been quite a lot in the news recently about the role of video games in healthcare. The Nintendo Wii makes us more active. Games such as Immune Attack give students a basic grasp understanding of the immune system. But there’s more to this than exercise and education. Video games are...

When I posted a story a few days ago about the ' cyber gloves ' that we demonstrated at Ideaworks Germany, a lot of people contacted me to point out the similarities between the demo and motion detection entertainment such as the Nintendo Wii and Microsoft's forthcoming Project Natal. So...