At last, you can test your gaming skills against those of insects. Wim van Eck, a graduate student at Leiden University in the Netherlands, has created a version of PacMan that lets live crickets control the ghosts that chase the pixelated hero through his maze. The insects are tracked by cameras as they move through a real maze, and their movements are then converted into those of their on-screen counterparts.
The glamorous but cut-throat world of fashion has gone virtual. In the There Fashion Challenge, which began two weeks ago in the online world There (), aspiring designers create…
