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New Shoe Designed to Kick-Start Couch Potatoes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the my-socks-say-I-can-watch-tv dept.

Terremoto writes "A student at west London's Brunel University has developed a shoe with a pedometer that controls the amount of time a TV will remain lit. If sufficient activity has not been achieved the TV remains uncooperative. The device is appropriately named, "Square-Eyes"."

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  1. ma83 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    obligated to care 3e forgotten in a

  2. Re:By your logic... by oirtemed · · Score: 0, Troll

    Get over yourself. Your analogy was useless. How is an allowance, which should be a reward - something earned, like a shoe which enforces tv restrictions?

  3. Re:Uh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Education and quality time (excersizing WITH THEM) is the key..

    Maybe some of that quality time can include spelling practice for the whole family...