Multiplayer, mobile educational games for your PDA - 'Live Long and Prosper!'

Eric Klopfer and his team at MIT have created several educational games for handheld computers. The games run on Palm handheld computers and are designed to encourage individuals and groups to interact, learn and to have fun at the same time. In Live Long and Prosper, participants explore genetics concepts. Students start off with a set of genes which they must alter by wandering the room and finding people to mix genes with. 'Mating' is accomplished through the sharing of data over the InfraRed port and results in a brand new set of genes. Individuals with the best gene combinations live the longest.

This application provides an engaging method to model scientific principles outside of the lab and is one of a handful listed on the MIT Participatory Simulations Site.