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Games Controlled By An Exercise Bike

Posted by Hemos on from the no-more-excues-fat-butt dept.

Fidigit writes "I know that most people reading this won't be _that_ interested in exercise, but given there's tech with it ... What do you think about computer games controlled by an exercise bike in your house? It sounds crazy, but it might just work." Update: 01/14 00:14 GMT by T : An anonymous reader points to another example of the same concept.

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  1. Not news by OldMiner · · Score: 5, Informative

    This has been done several times before. For instance, there is this SNES/Sega/PC/whatever else you want bike which is basically a fancy looking controller and then there's this SNES specific bike, the Life Cycle which I recall being issues in some back issue of Nintendo Power. I think there was even a Pacman-esque game that was supposed to go with it.

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  2. Nothing new... by sjehay · · Score: 5, Informative

    See here for a commercially-available product for interfacing turbo trainers and Playstation (2)s that has been around for a while...