Fitness Machine for Child Gamers


	Fitness Machine for Child Gamers

haraya

11-5-2006 11:14 AM

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children, games, fitness, machine, products, health, technology, exercise

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11-5-2006 1:43 PM

JimEspo

Adults could use a machine like that to power their computers!

11-9-2006 12:00 AM

haraya

Good idea, but I'm not good at multitasking, JimEspo. I can already see what a disaster it's going to be.

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<FONT size="2">The Step2Play step exercise machine links directly to a child's computer games console. 
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<FONT size="2">The game's controller will only work if the child keeps up a constant pre-set rate of exercise.
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<FONT size="2">Dr Ian Campbell, medical director of Weight Concern said the device would be "useful" but that it was "a terrible indictment on society".
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<FONT size="2">Because the system only controls the game's controller, and not the game itself, it can be used with any Playstation game. The game pauses while the controller is inactive.
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<FONT size="2">Two players can use different steppers and controllers to play two-player games. The machine also has a parental over-ride and is aimed at youngsters under the age of 12.</FONT></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E15C4DD5-5352-4C2C-A434-4F1DE78FFA9E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>