The Wii Sports Experiment
This guy did 6-weeks of changing nothing in his life except adding 30 minutes of Wii Sports into his routine and seeing how it'd affect his overall fitness. Surprising (or not depending on how you feel about video games) he actually lost weight, and his overall fitness increased. Take a look at all his results here. I tried a similar experiment, except instead of playing Wii Sports I hate a 30lb steak dinner every night. My results weren't as impressive, although I can no longer see my feet. So that's pretty neat.
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Kotaku (a video game blog) recently polled its readers and came up with this informational graphic summarizing over 20,000 gamers' tendencies. Although I question how valid it is since there's no mention of teabagging and name-calling or how often I have to mute all the 12-and... / Continue →
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Put down your wireless mice and keyboards, folks, somebody has beat World of Warcraft. From now on all WoW'ing will be in vain. You have been warned. A Taiwanese player has become the first person in the world to complete all 986 achievements found in World of Warcraft, repo... / Continue →
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Tired of only playing Wii Fit on the balance board? Want to use it for something else? Well look no further. A couple of guys from DFKI (the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence) took a Balance Board and connected it to a regular old laptop PC. A custom C# appl... / Continue →
