The Heartbeat Symposium – Exploring Love, Sex, & Intimacy In Games

“I’ve always been interested in telling stories about connection – to land, to a person, to a thing, even to a point in time. Exploring connection is the focus of so many areas of creativity – especially film, art, and music – but much less so video games. Why is that, I ask myself.” says […]

Bill Maynard net worth: How much was the late Heartbeat actor worth? HUGE fortune revealed

Bill Maynard, who died today at the age of 89, was an English comedian and actor. But what was his net worth when he died? He was most famous for his role as Claude Jeremiah Greengrass in Heartbeat, which he starred in from 1992 to 2000. He is said to have been worth several million […]

Electronic skin can display a heartbeat on your hand

Electronic skins might not only detect health troubles in the near future, but display them for the world to see. University of Tokyo researchers have developed an e-skin that can measure vital signs like your heartbeat and display them in real time on a skin display. The design blends a breathable nanomesh electrode and stretchable […]

LGBT Animated Short ‘In A Heartbeat’ is a Tender Love Story That Could Rival Pixar Shorts

Love can’t be contained in the animated short In a Heartbeat, a sweet and affecting love story told in four minutes. It has all the trappings of a story of first love — lovely, funny, and touching — only it’s about a young schoolboy who has a crush on another boy at school. Funded on Kickstarter […]

Irregular heartbeat: Working more than 55 hours a week could put YOU at risk

GETTY Working long hours can increase the risk of developing an irregular heartbeat by 40 per cent Long shifts are known to increase the risk of stroke, but the association of long working hours with irregular heartbeat – also known as atrial fibrillation – was not previously known. A study of more than 85,500 British […]

China could stop North Korea’s nuclear threat in a heartbeat without firing a shot

Guang Niu/Getty Images Chinese President Xi Jinping has assured US President Donald Trump that China has limited influence over North Korea, but that’s only half true. It’s true that diplomatic relations between the two are weak. Xi has never visited Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang, and Kim has never been to Beijing. High-ranking officials with […]