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...need an hour's worth of your crowded life, not including the time it takes to penetrate the layers of security stickers. Singles, barely sold in record stores anymore but making up the vast majority of downloads, ask for only three good minutes. Here are 10 songs guaranteed to thrill for half an hour...
...throughout the world, and inevitably (barring a resurgent neo-Luddite movement) within 30 years we will all be playing video games. There is no evidence that this hunger within us will ever die, even as our bodies age. And who would want it to? Nothing beats the rapid-fire thrill of a first person shooter, or the evocations and exhilarations of a sports game, or the alternating states of calm cerebral alertness and frantic applied engagement that characterizes more complicated games like Civilization, Age of Empires, or Starcraft/Warcraft...
Those differences are precisely what Putnam is looking for. What he's studying during his unlikely playdates is that elusive temperamental divide between those of us who thrill to the new and those of us who prefer what we know--those who seek out the unfamiliar and those who retreat into the cozy and safe. It's in that divide, many scientists believe, that the mysteries of shyness...
...roll dream, there's a fully equipped recording studio on site. And Moog has even installed waterproof TV screens by the poolside, along with underwater speakers encased in glass. With diversions like these, it hardly seems worth the effort to chuck your TV set into the pool like those thrill-seeking rock stars of yore...
...choose wisely. Action-packed sports games like NBA Street Showdown and World Tour Soccer are good bets, as is Twisted Metal: Head-On, a demolition-derby title that you can play with others over the Internet using the PSP's built-in wi-fi. For a more cerebral thrill, try Lumines, a puzzle game with cascading blocks that's totally addictive...