Archive for the 'Lumos Labs' Category
Posted on June 3, 2008
Since we launched Lumosity last year, we’ve heard lots of feedback from users saying you love the brain games, and the feeling of getting smarter and seeing your improvement. One thing many of you have requested is more exercises and games. Well, we’ve just raised $3 million from 2 top venture capital firms, as well as some really smart individual investors, in order to keep improving Lumosity so it’s always the best site for brain training.
Our new partners are FirstMark Capital and Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), and together we will be able to continue our research into how to increase brain performance and maintain brain health in the best – and most enjoyable – ways possible.
The official press release is on the next page.
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Posted on May 12, 2008
We are pleased to showcase the winner of the Lumosity T-Shirt Contest. After 792 votes for the best t-shirt, Marissa’s smart design, which references memory games in a 9-card layout, won by a convincing margin.
(We’ll have an easy way to purchase this Lumosity shirt soon.)
Posted on May 5, 2008
A few good articles about brain training that featured Lumosity were published in the last couple days:
NY Times: Exercise Your Brain, or Else You’ll…Uh…, by Katie Hafner.
Yahoo! Tech: Brain Game Can Boost IQ…, by Christopher Null.
BC Gaming: Game Review: Lumosity, by Alexandria Jackson.
Posted on March 6, 2008
Brain fitness and cognitive training articles appearing in the past few weeks have prominently featured Lumos Labs. Here are a few of our favorite:
Reader’s Digest: HealthSmart
Dominic Cadden writes about his experience completing the Lumosity training program.
Fox News: Website of the Day
Check out Doug Delony’s broadcast of Lumosity: “Games for a happy Friday”
New Scientist
Graham Lawton did an excellent assessment of the current state of the science behind brain training products.
Women’s Health Mag
Tips to avoid forgetting and losing stuff – Lumosity helps you avoid losing memory itself.
Posted on February 8, 2008
If you’ve been working on a design for the T-Shirt competition, now is your chance to send it to Lumosity.
The competition ends on tonight at midnight!
It’s easy to submit. Just email your design to info@lumosity.com.
The winner, runner-up, and all finalists will receive prizes. Submissions need to be received by February 12th at midnight PST. Readers will vote from the finalists to select the winning design.
Posted on January 28, 2008
In honor of our one-year anniversary we are announcing our first ever T-Shirt Design Competition.
Show off your talent by designing a creative and stylish Lumosity brain fitness T-Shirt and take part in our competition.
Submission Deadlines: February 12th, 2008
First Prize: 2 One-Year Memberships to Lumosity.com and 2 T-Shirts of your winning design
2nd Prize: 1 One-Year Membership to Lumosity.com
All Finalists: 3-month membership to Lumosity.com
The Contest:
We are planning to print a larger number of T-Shirts and we need your help in creating the best possible Lumosity Brain Fitness T-Shirt. We are looking for designs that are creative, cute, cool and incorporate the Lumosity brand in some way. You may download and use/modify our logo (for the competition only) here and any other imagery you see on our site. Please contact info@lumosity.com with any questions or requests.
Finalists will be announced the week of February 11-15, and readers will have the opportunity to vote on the winning designs.
To submit, email your design to: info@lumosity.com
The Official Rules:
- You can enter as many designs as you like
- Jurying will be done anonymously and designs will be selected on the basis of merit and feasibility
- All finalists will receive a 3-month membership and the first and second place designs will receive the prizes listed above.
- You can not infringe on anyone’s copyright with your design, and by entering the competition, you agree that your work is your own.
- By entering the competition, you agree to give Lumosity non-exclusive rights to publish your work on our website and/or use your design on our T-Shirt.
Designs should incorporate the following:
- Lumosity color scheme + Lumosity logo or logotype somewhere on the shirt
- The final T-shirt will be printed on the color specified by the designer. White and colored t-shirt designs are accepted.
- Up to 6 colors are allowed, but we encourage you to use as few colors as possible.
- Designs can fit ANYWHERE on the T-shirt body (except seams), and creative use of the T-shirt space is encouraged.
We are looking for designs that are attractive, smart, creative, but also wearable and practical. Design something you would compliment your friend for wearing.
All logos and materials can be downloaded at the end of this post.
Adobe Illustrator Format:
Download lumositylogo.ai
Adobe Photoshop Format:
Download lumositylogo.psd
Low-Res .jpeg:
Download lumositylogo.jpg
Posted on December 5, 2007
Recent activities in the Lumosity brain training program:
We just released the latest memory exercise, titled Moneycomb, in which you must remember the location of coins in a honeycomb layout. This exercise targets attention and spatial working memory, and is now available from the trainer.
We also just introduced “Lumosity Points”, which are awarded for completing games and courses. Your Lumosity Points track your progress and succinctly show how much
training you’ve done. We’re still adding to and refining the Lumosity Points, so your comments are valuable.
Finally, we’re planning to launch the new Memory Boost training module at the end of next week. This will be a 10-session course focused on memory exercises, including memory tips and strategies. It will be available to all Lumosity members once they have completed the Basic Training course.
Posted on July 27, 2007
Kunal Sarkar describes how Lumos Labs "puts the cheese on the broccoli" in this podcast on Gearlog. His interview with hosts Dan Costa and Jennifer DeLeo is the first after the opening commercial
, and answers some of the popular questions about Lumosity:
- What’s the difference between Lumosity and crossword puzzles?
- What about Nintendo’s Brain Age?
- Can Lumosity help patient populations?
- The importance of combining broccoli and cheese (and the meaning of this metaphor)
