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Category Archives: Lumos Labs

Brain game development: Lumos Labs raises $3 million

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 [...]

Brain Game Lumosity T-Shirt Winner Announced

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.)

Brain Game News from the Weekend

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.

Brain training in the news

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 [...]

T-Shirt Design Contest: Last Day!

One-Year Anniversary T-Shirt Competition: Design Our Shirt!

New memory game and Lumosity points

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 [...]

Lumosity on PCMagazine’s Gearlog Radio