No, I am not talking about the Wii Fit but a new device called the jOG. This device surprisingly works with almost any Wii game currently in existence. Here’s how it works. The jOG is basically a pedometer that you plug the Wii Nunchuck into and then into the Wii Remote. It translates steps into forward motion for any game that uses the Nunchuck joystick as movement control.
The results?
An independent report from John Moores University in Liverpool revealed that one hour using jOG to play a typical Wii game can involve taking as many as 10,000 steps – that’s the number the government recommends adults take each day to stay healthy. Not only that, using jOG more than tripled energy expenditure and increased heart rate by 40% in the young adults who participated in the tests.
I can certainly want to get one of these but who knows when they will be introduced to the States as they have just been released to the UK market.
