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For the record, I want to say that on January 11, 2008, at 3:22 AM, clutching my twenty-sided die, I invented it--a walkable metaverse.

If you've read even this far you've probably been fantasizing about the holodeck ever since your pasty flesh and velvet cloak first consigned your little peter to a decade of singlehanded abuse. Well, now you can have it. The technology, at least, exists. And soon God (Johnny Lee) is going to make it for you. We'll just have to ask nicely. I'm going to start by writing him a letter asking him to be my new dad. Admittedly they'll have to steal Seadragon from MicroSoft, but whoever makes it--and it will be made--is in for a Brave New World.

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In my experience, bouts on my Nintendo Wii have only led to broken bodies and homes, but some physical therapists and doctors have employed the uber-appealing, motion-sensitive game system to help recovery of motor function after catastrophic injuries like car wrecks. CNN's cuddly Sanjay Gupta reports:

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