Yesterday we detailed the Wii Fit Balance activities. Today Ian asks if it will boost your sex life(!) and summarise his view and scores it.
Will Wii Fit help your sex life?
Let’s not over-state the case here: this is not an aphrodisiac. But still, there is undoubtedly a certain class of couple for whom Wii Fit may bring a new sexual awakening.
Yesterday we covered Wii Fit Review: Getting Started & The Aerobic Activities. Today’s instalment covers the Balance exercises.
The Balance exercises are by far the most attractive, because they’re quick, fun, and easy to play with friends to see who scores best. Just about every time we’ve started up Wii Fit, it’s the first section we choose, and often the only one if we’re in a hurry. The activities include:
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In the first instalment of our Wii Fit Review: A Month After Living With Wii Fit Ian gave an overview of what Wii Fit is all about. Today we’ve cover starting to use it and detail the aerobic exercises.
Getting started with Wii Fit
Once you’ve added your Mii (i.e. the little cartoon of yourself that’s used in most Wii games) to the Wii Fit Arena, the first step is to establish your baseline “Wii Fit Age”, where the Wii tells you to stand still for a few seconds so that it can measure your weight and centre of gravity. It also asks you to do some basic balance tests (such as leaning from one side to the other to move a circle into a square), and from all of this it calculates your Wii Fit Age.
Given 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.
After all of the hubub at the LG Secret, the KF750, global launch died down a little in London, we caught up with John Barton, LG UK Sales and Marketing Director, to find out more about the LG Secret.
After bits and pieces about the naming of the product —
Why is it called secret? His take – the phone reveals itself to the user as they use it — we got on to talk about the M-Toy feature.
You’ll all be aware of the hoopla around the release of Grand Theft Auto 4, or GTA4, as it’s now known. We thought we’d take a different tack to other publications and publish the review of one of our readers, Andrew N.
As you may well remember, Nokia brought out the N-Gage games/phone back before 2003, following it up with the N-Gage 1.5, then the second generation N-Gage QD (June 2004). None of them really set the world alight.
After buying Sega’s mobile gaming unit (2003), they finally got around to launching the service that let N-Gage owners buy games online in 2006.
After we wrote the story about PongOut — Pong and Breakout, both on the same screen, played at the same time — we got a connected about another version of Pong.
This time the smallest version of Pong known to mankind – smaller than a fingernail.
If you feel like you need a break from work — and who doesn’t every now and again — and want to make your brain ache a little, let us introduce Pongout.
It’s a combination of two old video games, Breakout and Pong.
In what we think is a first, Ricky Gervais will deliver comedy routines in a video game, Grand Theft Auto IV.
Widely touted — often by himself — as the funniest man in the world, if not further afield, Gervais will deliver three minutes of new material, as well as some from his Fame tour. (more…)