University Of Nottingham Teams Up With Sony To Cure Lazy Eye With Videogames
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University Of Nottingham Teams Up With Sony To Cure Lazy Eye With Videogames

Remember when playing Tetris helped adults with amblyopia (aka lazy eye)? Well now Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and the University of Nottingham have teamed up to prove that once again, computer games are the answer. Developing original games based on popular PS3 titles, SCEE is creating content for the "I-BiT" system, which will help children overcome their condition in the most fun way possible.

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Infographic of the day: A Costume for every era

Struggling with what to wear for Halloween?  Your choice of attire to Halloween at Rock City being a brain-teaser?  Facing a writers block-esque sensation of selecting appropriate costume for the Lincoln Halloween weekend befuddling you?  We'd like to help!  Here's a costume for every era of history all the way up to the 2010s, courtesy of Halloween express.

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Mayhem returns to Nottingham

Nottingham's creative quarters turn to the strange and scary as the Mayhem Horror Film Festival returns, with a myriad of extreme cinematic horror exultations. 

From the BAFTA winning pictures to the best of disturbing Asian cinema, played at Midnight just to add that extra atmosphere, the Broadway cinema has an impressive selection for your perousal from the 27th-31st October.  Same as usual: best costumes win prizes, talks with directors and outbursts of laughter and applause and the most implausible of deaths.

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How to start a club night

The idea of starting a clubnight is a rather simple execution nowadays.  Any teenager with a laptop, a large iTunes collection of torrents can say they're a DJ, even though their claim destroys the definition of the term.  So long as you have friends, a Facebook account, an overdraft to procure initial costs and patience, you'll be sorted.  Here's how:

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