UFC Personal Trainer is based on a violent fighting franchise, but could also have positive effects on kids' health.
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By Paul Ballas

Is using a Kinect martial-arts simulator like practicing martial arts or like playing a videogame? The answer is neither.

As usual at this year’s E3 Expo, new videogames were unveiled, sparking a great deal of discussion about several hot franchises’ latest titles. But one game released at the annual gaming conference crossed an invisible line in how we conceptualize videogame violence, and may force us to change our conceptions of the effect of videogame v...

There was a time, not all that long ago, when the Pentagon sank tens of millions of dollars into remote-controlled lightning guns that it hoped would fry insurgent bombs before they killed any more troops. Now, disassembled parts from the one-time wonder-weapons are being sold on eBay. At least one buyer snatched up the gear, hoping to use it in his latest art project for Burning Man.

All of which would make for a funny little story, if that buyer didn’t discover that the multimillion dollar “Joint  Improvised Explosive Device Neutralizers,” or JINs, were kluged together from third-rate c...