More than half of Americans faced coronavirus-fueled cabin fever last year by playing video games. SuperData, a Nielsen company, reports 55 percent of people turned to console, PC and mobile games during the first phase of COVID-19 lockdowns. Video games and interactive media generated $139 billion in 2020, a 12 percent spike, with digital games … Read more
Watching David Attenborough documentaries on TV and through a virtual reality (VR) headset can lift people’s moods, a new study claims. UK researchers found that playing people scenes on TV from Attenborough’s Blue Planet II documentary alleviated sadness and reduced boredom. Underwater scenes viewed through an immersive VR headset were the most effective at boosting … Read more
Coronavirus lockdowns could have damaged the eyesight of thousands of people, scientists have warned. Another study has discovered spending hours looking at screens can lead to short-sightedness, which causes distant objects to appear blurred. And eye specialists in Singapore, Germany and Japan, behind the research, fear the Covid-19 pandemic may cause rates of the condition … Read more
Eye don’t think she’ll thank you for that: Mother cures her lockdown boredom by drawing eyebrows on her two-month-old daughter’s face Morgan Rose, 28, from Oregon, U.S, drew eyebrows on her two-month-old baby Mother shared the hilarious video of her baby, Leighton Mae Rose, on Tik Tok Clips of Leighton and her brows have been … Read more
Jessica Wright combats lockdown boredom by fashioning a dress out of her bedsheets as she puts a spin on the pillow challenge By Rebecca Lawrence For Mailonline Published: 10:23 BST, 24 April 2020 | Updated: 10:36 BST, 24 April 2020 A host of stars have been fashioning dresses out of their pillows as part of … Read more
Britons beat coronavirus lockdown boredom by whisking up cakes: Sales of flour double in the past month from two million to four million bags a week, according to latest trade figures By Mail on Sunday Reporter Published: 22:36 BST, 4 April 2020 | Updated: 00:48 BST, 5 April 2020 Stuck-at-home families inspired by The Great … Read more
‘I made a toga for my dog’: Twitter users reveal the funny, mundane, and bizarre activities they have been driven to do out of intense BOREDOM during quarantine Jimmy Fallon started the hashtag challenge #ImSoBoredI on Twitter He kicked things off, saying that he ‘gave all our canned soups names. Yesterday we ate Split Peter’ … Read more
Keep quarantine boredom at bay with this deceptively tricky spelling quiz – but how many can YOU score out of 10? A Playbuzz quiz challenges the internet to pass a tricky multiple question test Ten multiple choice questions give you two options on how to spell a word The words cover medical terms among others … Read more
Sailor Brinkley Cook flaunts flat abs on Instagram while staving off boredom under quarantine By Paul Chavez For Dailymail.com Published: 04:39 GMT, 19 March 2020 | Updated: 04:39 GMT, 19 March 2020 Sailor Brinkley Cook flaunted her flat abs Wednesday on Instagram while staving off boredom under coronavirus quarantine. The 21-year-old model posted a short … Read more
A popular astrology meme account has revealed the best ‘cures’ for boredom for each star sign as people around the country remain quarantined inside their homes amid the coronavirus pandemic. Courtney Perkins, the writer behind the Instagram account @notallgeminis, considered the attributes of all 12 astrological signs when she compiled a humorous list of things … Read more