Here are some of this year's most important, intriguing and just plain amusing games and developments.
He makes amusing forays into the development of the Bic pen and the practice of handwriting analysis.
The MIT robotics labs provide an endless source of variously amusing, terrifying, and wonderful developments, and today's is a robot prototype that can scurry across the surface of a ship's hull, using ultrasound tech to scan for false panels and other secret compartments used by seafaring smugglers.
The film, which according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "marks a key stage in the medium's development from an amusing novelty to the seventh art," and, "possibly the only point in film history when British cinema unquestionably led the world," was an advance in filming techniques, editing, production and story telling.
Yet language development begins with these amusing and dear exchanges between parent and child.
But through a series of smart workarounds, creator Mitchell Hurwitz made the Bluths' eternal disappointment and arrested emotional development not off-putting but amusing. .
(European ice was stuck at an earlier stage of development. Few things are more amusing to an American iceman than a gin-and-tonic in a London pub: the grudging tongs, the single cube).
"It is quite amusing to see how fast a new research development is being transferred to industry and adopted in a product," says New York University in New York City computer and data scientist Kyunghyun Cho, who was not part of the new work.
Time Out reviewer Derek Adams said that Bandslam is far from exceptional, but is saved by decent character development, a cluster of engaging performances and several amusing deadpan moments.
My husband and I could have seen the lower scores as a disturbing sign of the decline of our daughters' teachers, school or academic development, but instead we saw them largely as an amusing instance of identical twin weirdness.
