Jerry's video workout game awaits
■"The PlayStation Workout: Videogames That Get Kids to Jump, Kick and Sweat," by Tara Parker-Pope, Wall Street Journal, 4 October 2005, p. D1.
I futurized too late in a recent blog where I mused on the inevitable gaming technology where my five-year-old could go physically immersive in his video games (he already engages in one helluva workout just with his body English):
The new videogames, known as "exergames," come with special equipment to replace the traditional joystick--including pads kids can jump and dance on, isometric; equipment that requires muscle to control a game and cameras that put kids in the center of kung-fu and skateboarding action. Some games even include caloric counters.
Hard to be a futurist nowadays.