Travis Boatman from Electronic Arts showed off a project based on Spore that the videogame giant's developers cobbled together in two weeks that took advantage of iPhone's accelerometer and touch-screen interface to guide the evolution of a hungry micro-organism.

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Travis Boatman from Electronic Arts (nasdaq: ERTS - news - people ) showed off a project based on Spore that the videogame giant's developers cobbled together in two weeks that took advantage of iPhone's accelerometer and touch-screen interface to guide the evolution of a hungry micro-organism.

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For micro-organisms, after all, evolution is not just a matter for the textbooks, but the only way to fight back against hostile thermostats and molecules, to say nothing of virologists.

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Like the OLPC laptop, the decTOP's innovations come out of a drive to bring computers and the Internet to rural Africa and Asia: Data Evolution acquired the machine's hardware from Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people ), whose "50x15" program seeks to take 50% of the world's population online by 2015.

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