Video games improve vision; Imagining life without digital rights management
Researchers at the University of Rochester have found that people who play high-action video games see better than those who don't.
The study showed that people who played action video games for a few hours
a day over the course of a month improved performance on a standard visual test by about 20 percent.
Daphne Bavelier, professor of brain and congnitive sciences, says video games appear to change the way our brains process visual information.
Also on today's show:
Apple CEO Steve Jobs sent shock waves through the music industry this week when he called for an end to digital rights management, or DRM. DRM is anti-piracy technology that prevents unauthorized copying or sharing of song and video files. Jobs joins a growing number of critics that say DRM doesn't work and is fundamentally anti-consumer.
Jobs inspired Chicago-area designer, artist and blogger Clay Miller to record his thoughts to the tune of John Lennon's "Imagine."
