Average gamer is 37 years old, still knows how to play Pac Man (Yahoo! News)

It’s not just kids playing video games, adults get in on the action, too

The Entertainment Software Association has released some interesting new statistics about the demographics of video game players. The average gamer age is 37; 18% of video game players are under 18, 53% are 18 - 49 years, and 29% are 50 years or older.

What does this mean? It means that more adults are playing video games. Those that grew up playing early Nintendo games or Pac Man arcade games have carried their interest into adulthood. The numbers from the ESA even tell us while there is a gender gap amongst gamers, it's not as much as some would expect: 58% of gamers are male, while 42% are female.

The ESA numbers also indicate that video games are a mainstream form of entertainment, with 72% of households playing them. Those households spent $25.1 billion in 2011 on video games, generating more than 120,000 jobs in 34 states. Such jobs include making the video games, providing customer support for them, and marketing the games to consumers.

Post by Adam Holisky

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Spy sunglasses shoot high-def video, look like your average pair of Ray-Bans (Yahoo! News)

Move over Lady Gaga — a new set of video-recording sunglasses might not have the flash of Gaga's Polarez GL20, but we suspect they'd lead to way more successful spying. The spy-glasses, called "Eyez," are in the works by Zion Eyez, yet another innovative company to drum up grassroots funding on Kickstarter.

The Eyez are embedded with a 720p HD video camera and 8GB of on-board memory for stashing all of your incriminating evidence, not to mention they look like completely normal glasses and only weigh a fraction more. The glasses will be able to transfer the fruits of your spying wirelessly to iPhones and Android devices, presumably through an app, and the company also has plans make livestreaming video a reality. The spy eyes can record for up to 3 hours, though we're not exactly sure how they stay powered or charge up.

Surprisingly, the glasses are marketed as a replacement for recording video with a handheld camera or smartphone rather than as straight-up spyware. According to Zion Eyez, this method of recording video allows you to take part in the action first-hand, rather than watching it unfold before you.

And if you've got indoor spying to do — er, memories to record — Eyez will offer interchangeable clear lenses, so you can turn them into a pair of eyeglasses when you need to go undercover inside.

Zion Eyez via PopSci

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