Game draws a range of protests

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Simon and Schuster Interactive has drawn fire from some quarters as the release of its Hypnotix Panty Raider: From Here to Immaturity CD-ROM action game approaches. In the game, the player uses various ploys to disrobe a cartoon supermodel. The player then takes photos of her and rushes them to a trio of aliens to avert the destruction of the Earth. Religious and rights groups have protested the imagery in the game. In addition, they claim that, despite the game's M (Mature) rating, its intended audience is pre-adolescent boys. Gamer groups are leery of efforts to censor the industry.

Product information, Marketing, Company marketing practices, Action game, Computer action games, Simon & Schuster Interactive, Hypnotix Panty Raider (Action game)

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Gadget tries to lengthen young attention spans

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The user of the East3 Attention Trainer wears a helmet wired to an electroencephalograph or EEG. The EEG interfaces with a computer and game software. When the user attains a certain degree of brain activity, the device translates to the screen, so a cartoon face on the monitor smiles, for example. East3 doesn't have federal approval, but the neurofeedback system is being tried out by children with attention deficit disorder with some success.

Computer Software, Software Publishers, Product introduction, Care and treatment, Usage, Software, Computer game, Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Biofeedback training, Biofeedback, East3 Ltd.

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Online course lets the isolated bring their medical skills up to date

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The Center for International Rehabilitation, under the direction of Dr. William Kennedy Smith, offers an online medical training program for prosthetists in remote foreign locations where victims of land mine accidents are not uncommon. The courses, developed by Northwestern Univ.'s Prosthetic Orthotic Center, have software and technical support donated by Web CT, Lynnfield, MA. Medical practitioners access, at no cost, medical skill training for one hour daily. A CD-ROM provides additional data that would take too long to download in slow-speed computer centers. The training of El Salvadoran prosthetist Olga Monge de Quintanilla is featured.

Science & research, HEALTH SERVICES, Medical Services NEC, Other Ambulatory Health Care Services, Services, Medical care, Information services, Prostheses and implants, Distance education, Prosthesis, Online education, Center for International Rehabilitation

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