If you’re so keen to replicate the gym experience with Wii Fit that you’d buy extra peripherals, we’d say you might as well go to the gym, but if you absolutely have to break a sweat digitally, there’s good news: gym Fitness First is launching its own brand of fitness gear for consoles.
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Nintendo’s sequel to its massively popular Wii Fit, and a new Mario game for Nintendo Wii, will release this year in Japan according to Nikkei newspaper.
Wii Fit may be more about balance than weight loss – but what if you want to use Nintendo’s console to actually bulk up on muscle? Well, a company called Riiflex has designed a set of Wii-weights that’ll have you pumping iron as you game.
Sharpen up your cutlery – we’ve got an extra grizzly slab of all the latest tech news to chew on. All the hottest happenings are rounded up right here, so read on for your lunchtime lowdown.
A 25 year-old man died while playing Wii Fit, the popular Nintendo Wii aerobics game.
Tim Eves, from Hopton-on-Sea in Norfolk, was jogging on the spot while playing Wii Fit when he collapsed in front of his girlfriend Emma Tuck and friend Lewis Hickin, both 25. Paramedics tried to revive him but he was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital.
Gadgets don’t just have to be about sitting at home in the dark with the curtains drawn. OK, top home entertainment kit might, but there’s plenty of gizmos to help make the most of the outdoors, so if the person you’re buying for fancies themselves as the next Andy Murray (Or insert other precocious young athlete here), deck them out with the latest equipment in our Christmas gift guide. Find out what they are after the jump. Read more
Britain’s best road cyclist Mark Cavendish has injured himself in the off season while playing on the Nintendo Wii, at home on the Isle Of Man.
Developments in tech mean we can now get robots to do our dirty work. But one hacker has made a game of cleaning up, persuading his Roomba vacuum cleaner to obey Wii Fit’s Balance Board. Check out the video.