Glow Burst is a highly addictive game that relies on a quick mind and even faster fingers. Click each glow pad as fast as you can from the lowest to the highest number in each set. Each glow burst earns you more points – and gives you extra time. Each round you complete gets you even more bonus time. This may sound simple, but I can assure you that it’s NOT.

There are three different levels of play, and the background music will speed up as your time starts to run out. I like the fact that there is a global “score board” even if I know I’ll never see my name up in those particular lights.

This game is not only a fun time-waster, it should also help improve your hand-eye coordination. I think, though, that mine still needs a lot of work.

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While walking around the conference floor during SXSW recently, I happened across the Wolfram Alpha booth. Their long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. Wolfram Alpha’s goal is to deliver to you answers that are definitive. It has an amazing inventory of numbers and facts known in the world. It has an engine on top of that which allows it to make new calculated facts based on that already-known information.

Wolfram Alpha’s goal is to “build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.” They hope to bring expert-level knowledge to people everywhere, no matter what education level or field of study/work they may be in.

As of right now, Wolfram Alpha contains 10+ trillion pieces of data, 50,000+ types of algorithms and models, and linguistic capabilities for 1000+ domains. The possibilities for adding more information based upon new calculations of existing data are nearly limitless.

Thanks to AMD for their help in getting me to the SXSW conference.

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Math and I get along like oil and water. I realized it wouldn’t be in my future when I took Physics in high school. I remember playing with Crayon Physics years ago, and it was a lot of fun to play with. What I want to show you today is something that will run on your desktop, whether you run on Mac or Windows.

OE-Cake is demonstration software for 2D-based multi-physics simulation. Use your imagination to create your own unique world!

This software supports various physical materials with real life properties such as fluids, gases, rigid (hard) objects and elasticity (soft) objects as building blocks.

Users can combine these objects to create and play with more complex objects and mechanisms such as cars, gears and moving dolls. Users can also attach pictures and photos to objects and change their shape, break them apart, or melt them.

If you know of other cool applications that no one else may have heard of, pass them along to me. Don’t send me the fun ones that everyone is playing. I’m talking about fun, interactive things that the rest of us have yet to discover.

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