A Gaming Replacement for Those Annoying CAPTCHAs
May-03 2012 / 22:09 EDT

A Gaming Replacement for Those Annoying CAPTCHAs via @zite:

We all know about those authentication blocks of text called CAPTCHAs, perhaps too well. (Today's fun trivia: The acronym stands for Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart.). A new idea from PlayThru is to embed a small Flash or HTML5-based game that a human plays with a mouse to prove he or she really is a carbon-based life form. It is intriguing, potentially less annoying, and has captured (if you will excuse the pun) a few supporters already. The service is...