Ian Lamont writes “Terrence Russell has outlined an interesting theory about what industry Apple intends to break into next. He points to games. Forget Pippin II, or an iMac gaming rig — he thinks the mobile realm is where Apple will make a big product push. It’s not the first bit of speculation about Apple’s renewed interest in gaming, but Russell’s theory may have more legs, considering Apple’s invitation to develop games on the iPhone SDK, its strong mobile product line, and a Apple trademark extension filed three months ago.”Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Folding@Home 2.0 - An Online Protein Folding Game
a boy named woo writes “Tired of justifying your gaming addiction? Now you can really help accomplish something while you play… thanks to Howard Hughes Medical Institute researcher David Baker at the University of Washington.” In collaboration with others, Baker has designed a game, called “Foldit,” with a practical outcome: players manipulate on-screen images of protein chains and attempt to predict their folding patterns. From the article: “‘Our main goal was to make sure that anyone could do it, even if they didn’t know what biochemistry or protein folding was,’ says [co-creator Zoran] Popovic. At the moment, the game only uses proteins whose three-dimensional structures have been solved by researchers. But, says Popovic, ’soon we’ll be introducing puzzles for which we don’t know the solution.’”Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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