If you're like me then you love gadgets, gizmos, do-hickeys and cool new inventions. If so, then check out Time Magazines latest list of "The Best Inventions of the Year". Everything from Flexible, ultra-thin LED screens that can actually bend and twist to the latest in robot gardening to a little known product called the iPhone*. And in the Computer category, Intel's engineers have been recognized for their hard work in leveraging a new alloy, Hafnium, which cuts down on electricity leakage in the new Intel(r) 45-nanometer Core processor . Congratulations!

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http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1677329_1678130_1678116,00.html

Ok, this question has been out there for sometime now. Can playing video games at work be good for you? Could having your brain always on the "go" position be bad for productivity.

I think many social psychologists (full disclosure, none were interviewed for this blog) would agree that taking short breaks to recharge your brain is much better then charging full steam through the day. But can we even take that idea a step further and say that not only could it be good for your mental health but possibly good for the company as well? More then what a typical break to the soda machine can offer, playing games may also encourage certain activities (such as teamwork, if you can convince your company to let you play a team-based game like Halo 3 for instance...).

Well as is always the case, someone did a study on this - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3247595.stm It's amusing to note that the researchers had a lot of trouble finding companies willing to let their employees play games. However, the results show that workers who got to play up to an hour of games a day were more productive and more satisfied in their jobs. Of course, someone will come along and point out (like your boss) that if people are just playing games, no work will get done - agreed. But I'm not saying that people should play games all day long, just as a break here and there. Hey, they did a study right and the data doesn't lie. Anyway, with that said, I'm off to go spend the rest of my day conquering virtual worlds and dominating invading aliens...

Note this blog was written with the help of Mike Masnick as I wanted to write more but i'm on level 6 of Fishy and couldn't pull myself away...

Intel got Christopher Guest (Spinal Tap) to direct music videos about Intel vPro and Intel Centrino Pro processor technology. Check them out, see what you think.