Beat the credit crunch with a PlayStation 3
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Posted in Business, hardware, Sony on
When it comes to surviving the financial crisis facing many in the world of business at the moment, perhaps the last thing that springs to mind in terms of an economic knight in shining armour would be the Sony PlayStation 3. However unlikely, one new UK research project is proposing that the PS3 could be the ideal business tool to help survive the credit crunch.
The academics from the University of Portsmouth are planning to explore how the new PS3 ‘Home’ virtual world has the potential for use as a business environment for senior managers to collaborate on projects. Maybe using ‘Home’ to reduce office space and travel costs, as well diminish corporate carbon footprints for example.
The research has been commissioned by Advanced Workplace Associates, a workplace transition consultancy with clients including Microsoft and Merrill Lynch. Executives from these companies will act as guinea pigs during the research project.
Dr Nipan Maniar, the University of Portsmouth academic famous for developing principles of ‘in-game’ learning in computer game environments, who will lead the project says “The PS3 console being used to access a virtual world is interesting as there are strong pointers that gaming environments will increasingly be used for other purposes such as education. I think a strong current example of where we are going is Jamie Oliver’s cook book instruction being delivered via the Nintendo DS Lite. Who’s to say games publishers won’t offer titles related to business and other subject matter where a user could easily cross from a business game learning environment to a real ‘doing’ collaborative environment in a virtual world accessed by the same console? There is also the added advantage of a younger generation who are at ease with these technologies and where learning and doing things in these environments may seem more natural than, say, the classroom or the boardroom.”
Of course, the PlayStation 3 is no stranger to the world’s fastest computers, most powerful laptops or even Linux Enterprise Servers so the business connection is not that surprising.
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PlayStation 3: Medical Research Tool
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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Who said that the PlayStation 3 was just for the young folk? Researchers at Stanford University certainly have an alternative view of the gaming console and the really rather impressive processing power it possesses. They reckon it is a perfect fit for membership of the Folding@home project, and Sony would appear to agree seeing as it has said the next software upgrade will include a feature to enable end users to join up
Anyone who remembers the SETI search for extraterrestrial intelligence distributed computing project will be right at home with the 200,000 PC strong number crunching effort that is Folding@home or FAH for short. The project started life 7 years back and has the not insignificant aim of understanding how protein folding works and ultimately simulating this to enable discovery of the cause of diseases such as Alzheimer
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By Davey Winder in Editorial
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Want a PlayStation 3? Want a kosher UK Sony PlayStation 3? Want one on the 23rd March, the official date of release in the UK? Of course you do, because like me you are a technology obsessed early adopting geek who just has to be in on such cutting edge technology from the get go. Ever since I first saw one in action, in the flesh, in the US I have known I would be buying one.
Sure, I could have gone Japanese, I could have gone American, I could have ordered via eBay. But I didn
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