More evidence that playing computer games enhances your career prospects

I've just seen another of those stories that points out how helpful playing games can be in your job. This time it's based on some research done by some mad scientists at Duke University which is just down the road from Lazyview's DV, in Durham, North Carolina. Previously I'd only heard of them in relation to their basketball team who were apparently doing quite well in 'March Madness' when I was in New York last year.

Anyway, the story, apparently the security guys who spend ages staring at x-ray machine screens when you are getting your bags checked at the airport have a really hard time concentrating on the screen and the scientist types think that playing on-line shooters might help them train to spot "target objects on a cluttered computer screen, even when the targets appear very infrequently."

Expect to see the [H34thr0\/\/] clan blasting your head off in Team Fortress II soon!