Gamer turns arsonist after bad performance

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South Korean police have arrested a teenager for setting fire to a local warehouse over unhappiness at his poor performance at computer games.

The 15-year-old confessed that he carried out the arson attack on the warehouse atop a four-storey building because "his computer games did not go well" at an internet cafe on the first floor, Yonhap news agency said.
   
The Saturday evening fire in Chuncheon, 85km east of Seoul, caused damage estimated at four million won ($A4,300).
   
Police identified the suspect only as a high school student, while withholding his name and the school he was attending.

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A Japanese research team said it had created a technology that could eventually display on a computer screen what people have on their minds, such as dreams.

Researchers at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories succeeded in processing and displaying images directly from the human brain, they said in a study unveiled ahead of publication in the US magazine Neuron.
   
While the team for now has managed to reproduce only simple images from the brain, they said the technology could eventually be used to figure out dreams and other secrets inside people's minds.

"It was the first time in the world that it was possible to visualise what people see directly from the brain activity," the private institute said in a statement.
   
"By applying this technology, it may become possible to record and replay subjective images that people perceive like dreams."

When people look at an object, the eye's retina recognises an image that is converted into electrical signals which go into the brain's visual cortex.

The team, led by chief researcher Yukiyasu Kamitani, succeeded in catching the signals and then reconstructing what people see.

In their experiment, the researchers showed people the six letters in the word "neuron" and then succeeded in reconstructing the letters on a computer screen by measuring their brain activity.

The team said that it first figured out people's individual brain patterns by showing them some 400 different still images.
 

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A pair of US inventors are bringing to market a computerised car key that prevents people from chatting on mobile telephones or sending text messages while driving.

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A pair of US inventors are bringing to market a computerised car key that prevents people from chatting on mobile telephones or sending text messages while driving.

Key2SafeDriving adds to a trend of using technology to thwart speeding, drunken driving, and other risky behaviour proven to increase the odds of crashing.

Once slipped into a car's ignition, the key created by US university researcher Xuesong Zhou and Dr Wallace Curry sends a wireless signal to a driver's mobile phone blocking calls or texting.

 "If you're in driving mode, you can't talk or text - period," a character tells a friend trying in vain to send a text message while driving a car in a YouTube video demonstrating how the keys work.

Teens targeted

The keys are being pitched as a way for parents to stop teenage children from focusing attention on their beloved mobile telephones instead of traffic.

A growing number of US states are enacting laws against teenagers using mobile telephones while driving.

Traffic statistics support arguments that mobile telephones are on a par with alcohol use when it comes to curtailing judgment and reaction times of drivers.

In October, Ford Motor Co unveiled a "MyKey" device which allows parents to control how fast their teenagers drive, limits the volume on the car radio and makes sure their seat belts are fastened.

Ford said that it would be a standard feature starting next year on the 2010 Ford Focus and other Ford, Lincoln and Mercury models.

Global Positioning System devices have been on the market for some time which allow parents to monitor the every move of their teenage driver.

Technology used to thwart drunken driving includes preventing car engines from starting until aspiring motorists have passed dashboard breath-alcohol tests or reaction-time tests on mobile phones.

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