Welcome to the lab. These games are short and boost your brain in just a few milliseconds or involve creativity.
They are frequently added and refreshed, based on your submissions or  news of the day.  They may or may not end up on our main list. Bookmark the page or get the feed that's updated whenever a new game is released.

7.16.08 Get your Kicks on route 66. BIG version below...+ youtube trance remix







7.02.08 (about) The Empress Irene was really emperor. Like Hatshepsut, etc.

6.03.08  Lucas' tower of hanoi is based on a recursive algorithm

5.21.08  Remove the constraints of fossil fuel.

5.14.08  Senet exercises your brain. In fact, this was the world's first board game.

5.02.08   A game a day comes to brain.com? Check back to see it live.





4.26.08   Save your garden with a ladybug?




4.22.08   How about dr. strangelove?




3.27.08 -The wall



1.30.08   How about the vitruvian man?

1.22.08   What does mona lisa mean?

1.15.08  Sir Edmund Hillary in memoriam.


Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret Bourke White took the photo of Gandhi spinning wool.

12.07.07  How fast is your brain? Try or try again.

10.15.07  Are gamers faster in the cranium?  Find out. At least master chief is. 



 Also, did you know brain speed and longevity are interlinked in a statistical relationship? Y


10.12.07 Add the endangered games to your site? It's easy now


9.12.07  The Endangered gym, following the format of the transformers gym is now available. Excercise your brain with simple but effective response measurements and learn something about our world that you might not have known; it's also back to school and work time for everyone.


8.20.07  Try this new game, bloxorz. 






7.22.07 
In addition, try out the new widget to add to your pages, blog, myspace, or facebook.  It's also adorning the above the fold space on brain.com



7.15.07  The Gladiator Brain Gym and Transformers Gym have been released, in addition, the Presidential Gym is complete up through George W. Bush.  More reaction time exercises than you can shake a stick at.







6.03.07 - DNA has been deciphered, thanks to Nobel prize winning Dr. James Watson,  along the lines of the work of Jean Francois Champollion, who translated Egyptian heiroglyphs. Here is a piece in slashdot.
This should usher in the era of personalized 'alert' services.  Well, if you have spent time on this site and taken a few tests, who have already entered into this new world, where the web itself and your computer becomes your lab assistant and your key to self-discovery. Several of our tests have correlated with possible genetic predisposition for Alzheimer's, so your score, in coming months and years will likely be a gateway into this exciting new world of Knowing.  Dr Watson himself was unsure if he wanted to know  about predisposition for Alzheimer's, but many people do want find out so they can take action.


What do do? Go back and see what the Egyptians had to say about Alzheimer's?  





5.30.07 - Try the presidential brain gym. This is merely an effort to learn something and train your mind at the same time, all for a good purpose. Amuse yourself with little known facts - for example, I didn't realize that president James Madison was co-inventor of the 'zinger' with the First Lady Dolly Madison, did you? Come to think of it I haven't seen one of those in aeons - it wasn't a ho-ho or suzy-Q, nor a twinkie.  As we approach "Decision 2008" the action will surely be gearing up over here.   As a Class of Exercise,  a whole new vista is opened up, so to speak: rulers of England, rulers of France, Prime Ministers, Holy Roman Emperors, Emerald throne denizens, Sublime Ports, Rajahs, Roman emperors, Umayyad Caliphs, Shahs,  Pharaohs, Gothic rulers  - all manner of political figures.
 


save brains. get the code| that's dave bowman at the end of the test, see his wikipedia bio - did he write it, or did HAL?



5.01.07  Stephen Hawking blasts into space aboard a zeroG.com flight. Try spacebrain, from cognitivelabs.com. In the days of the Bell X-1, all kinds of stresses were placed on candidates. Astronauts still do cognitive exercises today. If you support spaceflight for the rest of us, put a test on your site. By the way, you can experience weightlessness for only $3,750 on zeroG planes, a little more than a first class ticket. (Las Vegas, NV)    

4.26.06   Random Brain thoughts. Click a button and get a new brain tip -- gleaned from the topic research stories of the past 12 months or so.




4.18.07  Quite awhile and no news. Actually, try the
Earth test here. Please let us know if you like it. It has received good marks so far, for those concerned with Green living.

3.07.07 Widget for blogger is here.  Put a memory test in your blog post or anywhere on your template...Below is the screenshot of the code you insert. Here's the code.  It can top off a column of 160 pixel width adsense quite nicely
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2.27.07  The Wall of Video. What Can you make with test widgets? Put them together like building blocks and see how many you can do at the same time!.




1.26.07   Irritation. Tried it out on the 25th. Highly popular. This game will exercise your brain and
                 make you do two things at once.
irritating



1.22.07   Stackopolis.  Cross Between Tetris and Rubix Cube....Wonderful




1.15.07   Bouncing Ball. Simple but  Fun.



12.07.06  Asteroids in Reverse? Here you go. Opposite of the original.




12.02.02  Practice your reaction and perception skills with this great game we call vectorball. Imagine playing tennis in an elevator shaft - that's the experience of this game. You need to be quick and coordinated in this one.


11.26.06  In this game, draw a line and then ride along the line. How complex can you make it. It's up to you. This is one of the more interesting free expression productions we've seen. (more at linerider.com)

11.20.06  Widgets. Here's a start. These tools add links and feeds to your site. Tell everyone about boosting their brain. Where to put it? Anywhere. Your blog, favorite forum, or social  site.

 



11.15.06  Your brain...on the web. (see satellite view of people who are building better brains) in the new coglabs world. Check back and see yourself. (not a game, sorry)




11.10 .06 Type and Improve your brain, while defeating your enemies. (front page of digg, delicious, reddit, stumbleupon, msnbc clicked!, and 123spill (Norge).

11.08.06 - This game was featured by yesterday. It's the best way to spend 15 minutes there is...except for your work. Click on the screen shot from tips and tweaks....


11.05.06 - This game was picked up by spreadfirefox.com (sfx), the global community site behind firefox  terrific growth rate.  It's a brain game that lets you act out the archetypal struggle between firefox and IE (david vs. goliath, luke s. vs. darth vader, etc.) It has
109,145 1,000,000 plays so far(12/07)



play the the game | thanks to jamey, at sfx  for posting this screenshot at graphicsguru.com






Stay tuned and you'll see a few of the initial games in this series later today. (11/05/06)