Virtual Ant Farm for your Desktop

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The Ant's Life Studio from Bandai in Japan is a virtual interactive ant farm for your desktop. It let's you create colonies of ants who build, create, maintain and survive in 100 different types of nests.

clipped from gizmodo.com Bandai's Ant's Life Studio Virtual Ant Farm clipped from www.wordpress.tokyotimes.org Salary man Sims Perhaps not entirely grasping the concept of escapism, Bandai, creator of the hugely successful Tamagotchi, is set to release Ant’s Life Studio in November – a virtual ant farm that requires its ‘owner’ to build nests, feed the queen and avoid getting eaten by hungry spiders. clipped from www.youtube.com clipped from www.wordpress.tokyotimes.org The insects humdrum existence and work orientated lifestyle however is being aimed at Japan’s masses of stressed out salary men, a group whose equally humdrum office existence and company focused life appears to disturbingly mirror those of ants – virtual or real. clipped from www.youtube.com clipped from www.wordpress.tokyotimes.org Not that Bandai seems deterred by such similarities, with a spokeswoman for the toy maker optimistically claiming, “Stressed-out employees can keep it on their work desks and be comforted just by watching the ants work. By watching them work, they can take their minds off their own work for a while.” clipped from www.kilian-nakamura.com Ants Life Studio - Virtual Ant Farm $99.00