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This innovative playground system is set to revolutionize the way kids play in the schoolyard or park. The iPlay intelligent play system is meant to lure children off the coach and away from TV and their video games to encourage motion and exercise. Playdale, the company that developed the system in the UK, sees this it as a preventative tool for childhood obesity. Another selling feature is that the i-Play is completely solar powered! How does it work? The computer controlled i-Play system calls out directions to the kids to either push, pull, spin, or stomp on a flashing orange and blue switch, the faster you complete your round the more point you get. The game ends when you get through all 5 levels, or you use up your 3 ‘lives’. The i-Play web site even maintains a ‘virtual league’ so kids can view the scores of others. The system is 7’ high and 20’ in diameter and according to Popular Science, costs approximately $45,000. Filed In: |
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| rocketranger on Aug 6, 08 0 Trends 2,582 Comments |
For all schools, HS & Middle schools.
Nationwide.
Global?
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| Allen Butler on Aug 7, 08 0 Trends 95 Comments |
| Childhood obesity is tragic. Mostly because as children, they have no choice about what they eat. We now live in a society where its easy to blame television and video games for the inactivity of the youth. However, this same society uses french fries as one of baby's first solid foods. Its easy to point that chubby index finger at companies like Sony or Microsoft and scream "I grew up in the 60s and 70s and I don't remember so many obese people...it must be technologies fault!" For one I doubt most people who grew up in those eras have a clear, un-chemically altered recollection of those times and secondly, I think that most people then had more commonsense than to give children extra large drink cups filled with french fries as a 'snack'. Lastly, wide spread use of High Fructose Corn Syrup did not exist. Now its used as a sweetener in everything from soft drinks to bread. |
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