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Filed under: Nintendo Wii, Exergaming

The Wii has been getting a lot of attention lately, mainly because of its different control mechanism. However, movement in gaming isn’t a new concept, which hearkens to days such as the NES Power Pad. Now, exergaming is getting a supporter.

The Mayo Clinic has released a report on the results of an exergaming study. Using a sedentary base, games that use a camera (such as EyeToy) and using a treadmill while gaming burned triple the amount of calories as sitting (five times over for more obese children); dance games registered the greatest calorie burn at six times the sitting rate.

With this new study, Nintendo is likely to jump on and further promote the health benefits of playing the Wii. Pulling children away from video games is a difficult task these days. While the Wii will unlikely burn the fat like Dance Dance Revolution would, they can add a bit to the marketing pamphlet to say the Wii requires exercise (if used right) for something their kid would otherwise be vegetating to do. As if we needed any more reasons to buy a Wii.

[Thanks, Ben]

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A warning label advising against climbing into a washing machine has won the 10th annual Wacky Warning Label contest.

Police arrested a 23-year-old man Friday and plan to question him about the shooting death of Denver Broncos player Darrent Williams.

The Seattle Mariners have signed former Atlanta Braves closer Chris Reitsma to a one-year contract with a club option for 2008.

Vijay Singh had one bad swing Friday, but it wasn’t enough for him to lose the lead in the rain, whipping wind and eventual sunshine at the Mercedes-Benz Championship.

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A giant wild hog boasted to be bigger than the near-mythical "Hogzilla" caught in southern Georgia a few years ago has been killed in a suburban Atlanta neighborhood. The hog hung snout down from a tree Friday in William Coursey’s front yard, not far…

Roland Piquepaille writes “An international team of researchers has discovered a new generation of optical molecules which interact 50% more strongly with light than any molecules ever tested. These organic molecules, known as chromophores, have been theorized by physicists at Washington State University, synthesized by chemists in China and tested for their actual optical properties by chemists in Belgium. But if they’re excellent candidates for being used in optical technologies such as optical switches and Internet connections, these new materials should not be used before several years — if ever. Read more for additional details and a picture of the physicist who broke a law he established in 1999.”

Filed under: Mac, PC, Peripherals

Logitech has released the perfect companion piece for that plastic bubble you just scored on eBay. It’s a keyboard and mouse combo, dubbed the MX 3200 Laser, and it’s coated with AgION, a compound used most commonly in hospitals to prohibit the growth of microorganisms.

Our guess it that the 3200 will cater primarily to mysophobes, but it might also be a worthwhile purchase for those paranoid of their runny-nosed tots or greasy-haired coworkers — oh wait, that is a mysophobe. Anyways, Logitech’s latest sure beats spraying Lysol all over the desktop.

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The last three times the Pittsburgh Steelers chose a new head coach, they went outside the organization to hire an NFL assistant coach.

It was a catch that should earn both men a place in the New York Yankees. Showing exemplary teamwork, two friends caught a toddler who had fallen 40ft from the fourth floor of a block of flats in the Bronx section of New York.

Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.

This was probably the Christmas season’s biggest surprise for me. I’m not sure what I expected from it, but the film knocked me on my ass. Tykwer took one of those theoretically unfilmable novels and showed everyone exactly how to adapt it.

Great stuff, and I’m sure I’ll have more to say about it soon. For now, check out Capone’s take on the material:

Hey, everyone. Capone in Chicago here.

So earlier this week, my interview with this film’s director Tom Tykver posted, and today I give you my review. Landing fairly high on my Best of 2006, the latest outstanding effort the German director (who also serves as the films co-writer and co-composer) is unlike any other film you have ever seen about a serial killer. Jean-Baptiste Genouille (played with an uneasy twitchy nervousness by Ben Whishaw) does not kill for the thrill or because some dark, traumatic even occurred in his past. If he didn’t have to kill, he wouldn’t. But killing beautiful women in 18th century France seems to be the only way he can find to distill and extract their scent, their essence in liquid form. And it is this distinction–along with Tykver always-present visual flare–that gives Perfume an atmosphere that is both sensual and menacing. And it is one of the few films about mass murderers in which we are actually (perhaps secretly) looking forward to each largely bloodless death, if only to see exactly what Jean-Baptiste intends to do with his collection of feminine odors. Sounds delightful, doesn’t it?