Use Pokémon Go as an opportunity to model healthy media habits, Kaldor says (Erikson Institute)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Jul 2016
... Childhood Center, shares with CBS 2 Chicago and Fox 32 Chicago how parents can keep their young children safe while also engaging with them as they play the wildly popular Pokémon Go app....

‘Pokémon GO’: Three Best Places To Catch Pokémon

Edit Inquisitr 14 Jul 2016
Pokémon GO is sending gamers far and wide to try to catch their favorite Pokémon ... Pokémon GO forces players to travel to new locations to catch new kinds of Pokémon ... Instead of wasting time, here are three prime locations to catch Pokémon in areas near you ... Even though it is widely considered a children’s game, Pokémon GO has won the hearts of millions of college students and adults ... ‘Pokémon GO’....

Play ‘Pokémon Go’ For Charity: Hatch Pokemon Eggs While Raising Money For Animal Rescue Groups

Edit Inquisitr 14 Jul 2016
While some have criticized Pokémon GO trainers for wasting too much time playing the mobile game, naysayers may be interested to learn that many Pokémon GO players have decided to play the game in the name of charity ... Pokémon trainers can download the organization’s WoofTrax app to their phone and run it concurrently with their Pokemon GO application ... PlayPokémon Go’ For Charity....

Is Buckingham Palace Really Infested With Pokémon?

Edit Inquisitr 14 Jul 2016
And all this time, it was thought that the biggest attraction at Buckingham Palace was the royal family, but it seems now, thanks to Pokémon GO, because of a Pokémon infestation, Buckingham Palace is a hot spot for those hunting Pokémon ... With the increase in traffic due to the Pokémon GO craze, the Corgis must be going crazy and yapping like mad, which in turn, must be driving everyone else crazy....

The world of Pokémon is filled with unsettling moral questions, according to a leading bioethicist

Edit Business Insider 14 Jul 2016
Last Thursday night, against my better judgment, I re-entered the grim world of Pokémon ... Does it hurt Pokémon when they faint in battle? What's it like inside a Pokéball? When you send your extra Pidgeys back to the lab in exchange for candy, what does the professor do with them? And what's in that candy, anyway? ... Whatever Willow's doing in the world of Pokémon, it's definitely not good and probably illegal....

Pokémon characters take over famous graveyard

Edit Chicago Sun-Times 14 Jul 2016
Not by famous architect Louis Sullivan or boxer Jack Johnson — some of the notable people buried there — but by dozens of Pokémon creatures. Jensen Allen, an administrator at the cemetery, said she opened the wildly popular app Pokémon Go to find the creatures dwelling on cemetery property. “Cemeteries are a big hub for Pokémon Go, we found out,” Allen said ... There’s probably about 30 Pokémon that are in our cemetery.” ... Pokémon GO....

‘Pokémon GO’: Is It Killing Your Data Plan? The Answer May Surprise You!

Edit Inquisitr 14 Jul 2016
Pokémon GO-mania is here! But is it killing your data plan? The answer may surprise you! According to USA Today, there have been more than 15 million downloads of the app since its recent debut. In addition, Pokémon GO has already proved to be one of the most heavily used apps in existence ... As you might guess, there’s been a major concern over whether or not Pokémon GO is turning out to be a major data hog....

Police departments all over the world are issuing warnings about 'Pokémon GO'

Edit Business Insider 14 Jul 2016
The advice was echoed by police departments in the three major territories where "Pokémon GO" is available ... He was reportedly playing "Pokémon GO" while behind the wheel ... Another accident occurred at Texas A&M, where one driver crashed their car into a parked vehicle — the driver had abandoned it suddenly to catch a Pokémon, according to the Texas A&M Police Twitter account ... 1st driver had exited to catch a Pokémon....

'Pokémon Go' drone concept would let you catch creatures pretty much anywhere

Edit Mashable 14 Jul 2016
Because as of last week everything must somehow be related to Pokémon Go, a company in the Netherlands called TRNDlabs posted a video of something called the Pokédrone ... The tiny, palm-sized drone would — according to the video — allow the user to better access hard-to-reach Pokémon ... Now we have to hack this data into the Pokémon Go app, but we have to admit that this will be difficult without cooperation from the Pokémon Company."....

The Virtual World Of 'Pokémon Go' Is Already Reshaping The Real One

Edit WPTV 14 Jul 2016
Why is "Pokémon Go" sending people to look for Pokémon in these places? ... "Pokémon Go" seems to be largely drawing on the location data collected from Ingress players ... It's pretty easy to find stories of "Pokémon Go" sending flocks of aspiring trainers to places where they really ......

5 features Pokémon Go needs

Edit Venture Beat 14 Jul 2016
Pokémon Go can’t sit idly if it want to keep … well, going ... Pokémon Go’s avatars lack personality.Image Credit....

How Pokémon Go is bringing people together

Edit New York Post 14 Jul 2016
It was 3 a.m., and they were playing the game that is sweeping the country, Pokémon Go ... Pokémon Go is as magic as its creatures. Once you download the app — the most popular in app history — Pokémon, including cuddly yellow Pikachu, suddenly pop up ... For the rest of Tuesday I drifted through the city, capturing Pokémon and striking up conversations with friends and strangers as easily as if the Yankees were in the World Series....

Pokeman Go: When Our Digital and Physical Worlds Begin to Merge (NCSL - National Conference of State Legislatures)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Jul 2016
The new smartphone game, Pokémon Go, has been available for less than a week and already has more daily users than the social media apps of Twitter, Tinder, Snapchat and Instagram. Pokémon Go uses a technology called 'augmented reality,' which essentially blends digital images with an individual's real world surroundings through the phone's camera. This allows people to 'catch' Pokémon in real life, while walking down the street....
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