Tag: SIMULATION

Have you ever wondered what that bone-crushing tackle in 'Madden NFL' would feel like? No? Well, neither have we, but that doesn't stop a University of Pennsylvania graduate student from investigating the effect. According to Wired, Saurabh Palan has created a gaming vest that, due to four solenoid actuators in the chest and back, delivers the impact of events on the screen. A cluster of motors ...

Here at Switched, we're all about parents being as prepared as possible before their little bundle of joy arrives. But this latest robotic baby simulator from Japan's University of Tsukuba is just too strange for us to endorse, even if it's effective. According to designboom, "Yotaro" features an interactive screen for a face, which not only displays different emotions and reacts to actions and ...

Is there no end to what nerds will build? In what may be one of the craziest home additions you'll ever see, an unidentified man mounted a 747 cockpit to the side of his house, because he obviously intends on restoring the hull and building a flight simulator inside it. It may sound intimidating to rookie do-it-yourselfers out there, but this guy has already built a simulator in his basement ...

Look, we want the next generation of robot doctors to be as competent as possible; after all, it's them that'll likely be taking care of us when our fingers lock up and our cranium-housed SSDs finally fail. That said, we can't help but be freaked completely out by Laerdal's latest and greatest patient simulator, the SimMan 3G. This almost-human can be programmed with various practice scenarios ...

Ha, and you thought your HotSeat Chassis was the next best thing to paying way too much to carry an appropriate amount of luggage on your next jaunt to paradise. Australia's own Matthew Sheil has been tinkering on his own personal flight simulator for over a decade now, but the latest iteration is just too good to ignore. Aside from setting a Guinness world record for his efforts, the man has ...

Here's an interesting plot for a video game: avoiding danger. As part of a recent study, researchers at England's Durham University have used Valve's Source engine (the graphics and programming that powers such titles as 'Half-Life 2' and 'Portal') to make fire drill simulations. The team began by recreating several of the university's departments and, then, setting them on fire. Intended to ...

Scientists use computer simulations to model all sorts of things, from the spread of weather patterns to the spread of disease. But a quartet of researchers at the Indiana University School of Informatics are actually using a computer simulation to simulate other computers, attempting to determine how quickly a widespread attack on public Wi-Fi access points would spread across its user base. ...

After the numerous and troubling cyberattacks in Estonia in the summer of 2007, many wondered how we'd (the US, that is) fare if we were the subject of a similar attack. Researchers predicted the answer would be "not so well," and that prediction has been shown to be true after a recent "cyberwar" simulation in which American defenses were found to be "way behind where we need to be now." The ...