The screensaver from Cool Educational Software no longer does what its name says, namely saves screens. It educates! And it does so in a really unusual manner, which is appealing to kids and adults alike.

Cool Educational Software presents Cool Educational Screensaver, a new way educational software that downloads educational video lessons from the Internet server and plays them when your computer enters the idle mode.

All the lessons are grouped to courses by subjects. As an example, the "Astronomy::The Solar System" course offers lessons about the Sun, the Earth and other eight planets.

Every day on the first launch Cool Educational Screensaver downloads the next lesson of the specified course and shows it during the day. When the current course is completed, you choose another one and continue.

"We see screensavers as a chance not only to individualize your PC but also satisfy the passion of many users for self-education," says Alexander Mozgovoy, CEO of Cool Educational Software. "The latest research shows that screensavers work for about 40% of the time the computer is on. Displaying educational information via a screensaver throughout the day is 4-5 times more effective than traditional learning methods at ensuring people remember. It's what we call incidental learning and our screensaver is all about it. It shows some principle scientific and cultural information in history, geography, biology, astronomy in a casual way. If the person is constantly exposed to this information, there is no other chance but to absorb it!"

Once installed, the screensaver from Cool Educational Software opens into Content Wizard that lets you set up the delivery and playback of educational lessons. As an example, you can change channel preferences, and select a desirable background audio. Then you update the index of lessons by connecting the Cool Educational Software's website and choose your first course to show. Cool Educational Software updates the lesson database regularly - a pack o new lessons is available every day!

A lesson about Pharaohs (the "Ancient Egypt" course of Astronomy channel) was taken for this review. It presents some basic data and interesting cultural facts about Ancient Egypt, pictures and photos of the Pharaos. The information is well-organised and the educational video itself looks just fine.

If you need a nice piece of software that's very different and compelling running on your computer when you're not working, then go visit www.cooleducationalsoftware.com for the educational experience that will never end. The free trial version of Cool Educational Screensaver offers only the first courses of each channel just to give you an idea of what to expect. Subscribed users gain access to all courses without limitations. There are 1, 3, 6 and 12-month subscription plans available.