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New Gamepad Designed To Build Muscles?

Posted by simoniker on from the be-strong-and-beautiful dept.

Robmonster writes "The BBC are reporting a story about a product designed to address both exercise and videogaming in one fell swoop. According to the piece: 'A new type of gamepad from a US fitness equipment company aims to turn the couch potato gamer stereotype on its head. The Kilowatt controller by Powergrid Fitness is designed to build up muscle while playing a PlayStation 2, Xbox or PC game." The article explains: "In a racing game like Gran Turismo, the harder you push on the joystick, the faster a car goes, while pulling back slows down the vehicle."

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  1. OFFTOPIC - BUT IMPORTANT!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I found out what happened to Goatse

    Sorry mod - I know this is kinda Trollish, but I really think this should be front page news

    http://www.nic.cx/complaints/goatse.cx/aup.notic eo fcomplaint.pdf

    I know everyone out there is wondering what happened to Goatse.. MOD - PLEASE PLEASE put this as news on the front page!!

    Thanks,
    -=DR=-

  2. Re:Mudcycle by punxking · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You... are... my Hero!

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  3. SOMEONE MOD... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...this piece of cr4p, misinformed flamebait down.

  4. Re:This is not flamebait by Concerned+Onlooker · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Come on. This isn't flamebait. From Cheney meeting secretly to determine national energy policy to Rumsfeld visiting Iraq to facilitate oil pipiline construction that's exactly what this administration is about. Even a Republican would heartily agree that the admnistration agenda is to promote the interests of the monied and the corporations and to eventually privatize everything. That's what supply side economics is all about (otherwise know as starving the beast).

    The above comment is merely an observation.

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