Wii Fit – Doctor’s Best Friend?
According to Crave, “Nintendo is roping in Panasonic Medical Solutions, Hitachi, and NEC, to develop accessories to enhance the popular fitness game. One of the features would uploading personal data to medical professionals for health assessment and advice. Some of the data collected through the games that could be passed along include height, age, agility as recorded from the balancing games, weight, and body mass index.”
Seems pretty sweet to me. I think with so many companies these days offering incentives to stay healthy (cheaper to pay for an employee’s gym membership than it is to have them missing 10 days a year due to health related issues)…this is just the next step. Sure they can cover your 40 bucks to go to the gym, but how do they know you’re not spending your afternoon playing Left 4 Dead and eating Chips Ahoy instead? (not that anybody would do that) Now, if you fire up Wii Fit daily, get your data beamed to your doctor, and then you have tangible info to present to your employers, signed off by Dr. Mario, that shows you have been working out regularly. Of course, they don’t need to know that you have a wiimote in one hand and Sam Adams in the other…
-Steve
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