Racing Games Teach Bad Habits

Video games may be influencing the way drivers behave behind the wheel. Tim Colquhoun reports.

Bruce Uses Brain And Brawn

APPLICATION to his studies delayed the start of Cameron Bruce's AFL career, but the Melbourne midfielder's innate thirst for knowledge has helped propel him into Brownlow Medal favouritism after a stunning start to his sixth season.

A Life Shattered, But Still Better Than A Life Lost

BARBARA Sadowy doesn't remember much of the accident, but it occupies her thoughts every day. "My brain fills in the gaps of what it must have looked like and I feel quite shivery," she says. Sadowy was driving the night an unlicensed 17-year-old youth, whose driver training was done mostly on video games, smashed into her car head-on. Her friend Lorraine Airey, 42, a mother of three, died instantly in the passenger seat.

Brain Implant Unlocks Power Of Trapped Mind

A SEVERELY paralysed man has become the first person to be fitted with a brain implant that allows him to control objects by thought alone.