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“What I wanted to demonstrate was how many more calories your body can burn by playing Wii as opposed to playing a traditional video game—and it’s quite a lot,” says lead researcher Lorraine Lanningham-Foster.
IOWA STATE (US)—A new generation of video games—like Wii Fit and Dance Dance Revolution—get players up and moving. A new study asks if these games can really help players burn calories and stay fit. Continue…
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‘Rewired’ Guitar Hero game helps amputees heal
JOHNS HOPKINS (US)—What do you get when you mix Nintendo’s Wii video game system with rehabilitation therapy? “Wii-habilitation”—a combination that helps patients cope with the often excruciating pain of physical therapy. Now two engineers in the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory’s National Security Technology Department have cranked that concept up a notch. (more…)
