VIENNA -- Patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) were effectively able to use a video game to improve coordination, researchers reported.
Patients who participated in a Microsoft Xbox Kinect-supported virtual therapy session had significantly improved balance, gait, and functional reach scores from baseline, according to Ksenia Ustinova, PhD, and Jan Perkins, PT, PhD, both of Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant.
The video game therapy also significantly improved coordination, dynamic stability, and precision from baseline, Ustinova said during an oral presentation at the World Congress of Neurology.

Video Game Serves as Virtual TBI Therapist

Yahoo launches new mobile streaming video app ‘Yahoo Screen’

Yahoo is the latest big media company to start focusing on a second-screen video viewing experience with the release of its new Yahoo Screen mobile app today.
The move shows yet another company that’s banking on turning connected tablets and smartphones into the new TV viewing experience — one that doesn’t require remote controls and is much easier to access. For now, it doesn’t look like you can push this video content to your TV screen, but that could eventually change.
The app basically collects all the video content that’s currently distributed on Yahoo and packages it together via an iOS app. Some of the content you can find includes Yahoo’s slate of original web shows such as Jack Black’s Ghost Ghirls and John Stamos’ Losing It With John Stamos as well as the huge backlog of Saturday Night Live videos that Yahoo has an exclusive on, as VentureBeat previously reported.
 Yahoo launches new mobile streaming video app ‘Yahoo Screen’

Live at TED Global 2013: Tweets, photos and video for quadrotor fans

Check out live tweets, amazing photos, TED blog posts and awesome video coverage of the session Those Flying Things at this year’s TED Global, featuring the work of automation and controls expert Raffaello D’Andrea, and drone ecologist Lian Pin Koh. We will be adding new material here as it becomes available, so check back soon. Photo credit: James Duncan Davidson.

This post is part of Robohub’s TED Global 2013 coverage.

 Live at TED Global 2013: Tweets, photos and video for quadrotor fans

Google Unites Gmail And G+ Chat Into “Hangouts” Cross-Platform Text And Group Video Messaging App

Today at I/O, Google rebranded “Hangouts” as a new unified, cross-platform messaging system. It lets people text, photo, and group video message across Hangouts’ Android and iOS apps, plus its Gmail and Google+ site integrations. Hangouts rolls out today, replacing Google Talk [GChat] and G+ Messenger. While it doesn’t support SMS yet, it could challenge Facebook Messaging and Apple’s iMessage.
For over a year, whispers from GigaOm, Droid Life  and others signaled Google would undertake a big unification of its fragmented messaging offering. Today Google will offer new free iOS and Android Hangout apps, the Google+ integration, and you can upgrade from Google Talk to Hangouts by clicking on your photo in the Gmail chat list. There are currently no plans for other platforms like Windows Phone or Blackberry.
Google’s Vic Gundotra said at I/O today in San Francisco that “Technology should get out of the way so you can live, learn, and love.”  Operating systems and devices shouldn’t matter. You just want to talk with those you care about. That’s the point of the revamped Hangouts. It brings humans and conversations to the forefront.
 Google Unites Gmail And G+ Chat Into “Hangouts” Cross-Platform Text And Group Video Messaging App