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Posts tagged “exercise”

10 Best Weight Loss Games for the Wii
Roundup

After recently covering the Cyberbike title for the Wii, we were thinking it was time to look at the other weight loss games for the Wii and roundup the top ten. In some of our picks the fitness goa...

Pedal Off Those Pounds With Cyberbike for Wii

Hmm, this isn't a bad idea at all, but doesn't the promotional photos for the upcoming Nintendo Wii title Cyberbike instill more than a wii bit of concern for those who might find themselves on the ...

Get Your Health On with Nintendo Wii Fit Plus

The Wii Fit Plus launched this weekend, giving us some second thoughts about trying out the "Insanity" program of infommercial fame for something more lax, digital and easy going. For those already wi...

Fitbit Health and Sleep Monitoring System

Sort of a cross between a Nintendo Wii for grownups and the Nike+ system, the Fitbit is a health monitoring system that keeps tabs on how many calories you've burned, steps you've taken, how far you'v...

Mint Digital Talking Dumbbell Aids and Annoys While You Sweat

Your flaccid biceps aren't going to get any bigger lifting those Doritos, Senor Flabby [speaking to ourselves in the mirror]. We actually enjoying lifting weights, but admittedly we sometimes need so...

Yamaha BF-1 BODiBEAT Synchronizes Beats to Your Heartbeat

The Yamaha BF-1 BODiBEAT is something we always wanted integrated into our iPod players (yes, we've got a Shuffle, Nano and a Touch) and our Nike+ running setup: a player which adjusts on the fly acco...

Do You Need Tech to Get You Through a Workout?

Picture this: I've left my humble digs and driven 7 and a half minutes to my local gym. Just as I pull into the parking spot, I realize that although I've got my workout clothes, a towel and a bottle ...

Look! Namco's WiiWare Muscle March

We're posting this under the pretense that a home aerobic workout could be attained while playing this upcoming Japan-only Nintendo Wii game. The truth is we just wanted to post this because it's so ...

Dept. of Ed Teaches Wii Fit

This just in from our friends at Social Workout: The A.P. reports that Nintendo has donated Wii Fit consoles to five New York public schools. So, 25 students in the Bronx are "spending four hours a w...

World’s Smallest Music Player iPod shuffle...With VoiceOver Technology

If the Apple iPod shuffle gets any smaller, they'll have to start selling/dispensing them from Tic-Tac containers. The new shuffle is now 1.8" tall x 0.3" thin, smaller in length than the average hous...

X-Biking: Like Wii Fit, But Xtreme

Having the willpower to exercise is not always easy, otherwise everybody would be perfectly toned and tight and Krispy Kreme doughnuts would sell through the roof. But playing video games? Well any ha...

You Can Work It Out
Charge Up Your Muscles and Gadget

You know you need the exercise anyhow, so why not just combine your gadget power needs with an easily transportable charging accessory which also provides you with the grip-enhancing workouts? Mac Fun...

The Geek-a-Cycle: A Computer Work/Exercise Station

So yesterday's post about walking while working on the computer was inspiring enough for us to do some research with the goal of finding an exercise mechanism we could use without losing valuable blog...