Gizmodo: brain training

Brain Exercise with Dr. Kawashima Comes to the iPhone

Adam Frucci — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EDT

The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.Looking to have your noggin tested by Dr. Kawashima? Well, now you can hop on board with the Brain Training sensation, if a bit late, on the iPhone and iPod touch.

This version of Brain Training has a bunch of new activities, built-in Soduko and the ability to challenge up to three friends on the same iPhone/iPod touch. It also includes global, cross-platform leader boards and the ability to compare test scores via Facebook built right in. Available now for $5.99. [iTunes Link via Kotaku]

Star Wars Force Trainer Uses Mind Bullets To Move Ball Through Chute

Jason Chen — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:44:40 EST

A simplified EEG-based game using the Star Wars license tricks kids into thinking they have Professor X-like abilities, when all they're doing is learning to activate one part of their brain.

This Force Trainer, priced at $90-$100, hooks up to your head via wireless headset and transmits your reading to the toy, which blows air and moves the ball up the chute. Like Brain Training for the DS, you level up gradually depending on your skill. Unlike Brain Training, when you succeed, a white ball jumps clumsily. [USA Today via Geekologie]

Nicole Kidman DS-ing It Up On Video

Jason Chen — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:30:52 EDT

If Nicole Kidman being cutesy with a DS was your thing, now you can see her do it on video.

Go Nintendo [via Kotaku]

Nicole Kidman Spokesrobots the DS Lite in Europe

Jason Chen — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:00:07 EDT

Nintendo Europe's just picked Nicole Kidman to rep them in the upcoming Brain Training 2 game. Why her? It should be obvious. The shot above shows her deep in thought, trying to remember what 9 x 3 was while using the stylus to clean out the last of the CRAZY from her teeth—which still remains even though she left Tom years ago.

Although that picture is sexy, the fact that they made her face as plastic as the DS Lite she's holding is kind of disconcerting. With her, it'd be like having sex with a robot, which, in all honesty, is the goal all Gizmodo is striving toward. So no complaints here.

Nintendo Europe [via Kotaku]