In yet another handy video, Torley Linden explains how to get YouTube videos to play in Second Life. This is awfully handy for education applications such as tutorials, displaying student work, etc. How do you use video in Second Life? Give us your creative and useful ideas for integrating videos into Second Life education experiences.
Researchers at Japan's Keio University have created an experimental headset designed to monitor brain waves that allowed a man who had been paralyzed for more than 30 years to control a Second Life avatar using only his thoughts.
McGonigal begins with a forecast of the future, a future where technologists have become "happiness hackers", creating alternate realities in an environment where quality of life is the primary metric for evaluating everyday technologies. In order to succeed in this environment, a product or service must increase real happiness, which has become the new capital.