Wii Fit Review: A Month After Living With Wii Fit

Wii Fit Review: A Month After Living With Wii FitGiven you can’t really appreciate the impact of the Wii Fit straight away, we asked Ian Winter to write this multi-part review of his experience.

Here’s the news if you’re thinking of buying a Wii Fit to lose weight, improve overall fitness, live longer and attract cuter sexual partners: it probably won’t make any difference.

I’ve been using a Wii Fit for the past month, having nabbed one on its UK launch date. In that time I’ve maintained my usual levels of diet (mainly vegetarian, probably too much bread, definitely too much cheese, but I’m not a big snacker), exercise (I dog-walk a couple of miles most days, occasionally cycle to take The Boy to school), and my weight according to Wii Fit has not changed at all in a month. Despite spending typically half an hour an evening on it, I am still at the top end of Wii Fit’s “overweight” zone.

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Harmony 785 Advanced Universal Remote: Review (87%)

Review (87%)It’s great having a living room stuffed full of the latest gadgets, but with just about every gizmo coming with its own easily-lost remote control, parlour games of “hunt the ruddy remote” and “where’s the chuffing battery gone?!” have become commonplace in some homes.
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Astraware Platypus Shoot ‘Em Up For Palm, Pocket PC, Windows Mobile Smartphones: Review (81%)

Astraware Platypus Shoot 'Em Up For Palm, Pocket PC, Windows Mobile Smartphones: Review (81%)Released last week, Astraware’s Platypus shoot’em up game has already proved a button-straining hit on our handheld.

The sideways scrolling, arcade-style shooter has a lovely retro feel to do it, with graphics created using claymation-style effects, giving the game a fun, sci-fi, Aardman-esque look.

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Numark HF-125 Dual-Cup DJ Headphones: Review (65%)

Numark HF-125 Dual-Cup DJ Headphones: ReviewFor DJs on an crab’s-bottom tight budget and home users looking for a cheap and cheerful set of headphones (or ‘cans’ as us aficionados like to call them), the Numark HF-125 Dual-Cup DJ Headphones seem to offer pretty remarkable value for money.
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Palm Centro Smartphone Review (Part 4/4 – 88%)

Palm Centro Smartphone Review (Part 4/4 - 88%)In this final part of our review we check out the software, test the battery and give you our conclusion.

Software
Palm packs a generous package of software with the Centro including the excellent Documents To Go 10 (for reading, editing, creating and syncing full Office 2007 Word, Excel, PowerPoint and text files), Pocket Tunes for MP3 playback, and all of the usual Palm PIM applications and utilities.
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Logitech diNovo Edge Bluetooth Keyboard: Review (Part 2 – 85%)

Logitech diNovo Edge Bluetooth Keyboard: Review (Part 1)Yesterday we looked at the layout of the keyboard and battled with the installation.

Behold! Let the light show begin!
Once we started using the keyboard, we quickly forgave its installation quirks, and marvelled at the space age glowing lightshow on our desktop.
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