Dr. Ann Maloney and her co-investigator William Cook have put together a Family Exergaming Research Team at the Maine Medical Center Research Institute in Scarborough, to determine whether the popular video game “Dance Dance Revolution” can help children lose weight and improve the overall health of their families. Maloney, a psychiatrist, got interested in using [...]

Physical therapists are starting to think that devices like the Nintendo Wii can help people fight disease and speed rehabilitation. Ben Herz, an occupational therapist at the Medical College of Georgia, in a study of 20 Parkinson’s patients has shown that playing bowling, tennis and baseball games improved the performance of patients on a range [...]

A CDC report has shown that obesity rose 37% between 1998 and 2006 and that approximately two-thirds of middle and high school physical education teachers say that health-related fitness is the primary focus of their programs. They also believe that technology plays an important role in today’s PE classrooms. According to the survey, 51% of [...]

Can students pedal their way to straight A’s? Maybe they can, using the Brain Bike, the world’s first brain and bodywork out. The brain bike was developed by The Brain Center of America and combines a cardio workout with brain-stimulating exercises such as math problems, matching patterns and memory games, all on a computer screen [...]

By next year, all three of the game console manufacturers, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo, will have motion-sensor controllers on the market, therefore the potential for the entire industry is huge. At E3, the gaming industry’s annual confab, Sony unveiled a motion controller slated for release in spring 2010 as a peripheral, Nintendo exhibited continued progress [...]