Will Wii Fit get you fit?

Fitness games provide 322% more calorie burn than resting. Dance games slightly less (298%). These two stats come from a study published online in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.

And in study published online in Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Dance Dance Revolution played at a moderate to vigorous level causes your body to use up more oxygen than 3mph treadmill walking.

(for more deets on both studies, go here)

Game on.

4 Comments March 9, 2011

Classic reads

Heading to the cottage this weekend and looking for something to read?

I don’t know about you, but I’ve always wanted to read the classics I’ve never gotten around to reading — think Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and William Shakespeare — so I’m kind of excited about the new 100 Classic Books, which includes such novels as Pride and Prejudice to be read on any of the Nintendo DS systems.

(now if only the DS could emit that musty weathered book smell — I kinda like that scent, it’s oddly comforting…)

1 Comment June 30, 2010