Check out the Nintendo Wii Fit Balance Board Game shown below. It’s not only cool, it’s designed to be interactive to get YOU moving! Featuring the Wii Family Ski
Best part of the Wii Fit is that it plays like a game, but it gets you moving and active like you really are working out. Parents love it for their kids, and kids love it because it’s fun.
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The Wii Balance Board is shaped like a household body scale, with a plain white top and light grey bottom. It uses four AA batteries as a power source, which can power the board for about 60 hours.[3] The board is wireless and contains multiple pressure sensors that are used to measure the user’s center of balance—the location of the intersection between an imaginary line drawn vertically through the center of mass and the surface of the Balance Board—and body mass index. In an interview conducted by gaming web site IGN, Shigeru Miyamoto stated that the Balance Board’s ability to measure weight is probably more accurate than that of a typical bathroom scale.[4]
Although the Japanese packaging states that it is designed to support people weighing up to 136 kg (300 pounds / 21 stone 6lb) and the “Western” Balance Board up to 150 kg (330 pounds / 23 stone 9lb), there is actually only one model Wii Balance Board and the packages differ due to differing laws in Japan and other nations. While the board will only display weight readings up to what is printed on the packaging, the actual physical structure of the board is able to withstand much greater weights of around 300 kg (660 pounds / 47 stones 2lb).[5]
Due to the similarities between the two products, the Wii Balance Board has been compared to the Joyboard, a peripheral released for the Atari VCS in 1982 by Amiga Corporation.[6] The technology within the Joyboard was much less advanced than that in the Wii Balance Board,[6] however, and instead of using pressure sensors under each footpad, the Joyboard simply positioned the four latches of a joystick beneath the board.[6] Leaning engaged the latches, controlling the game.[6]
It is noted in the manual that the Balance Board should only be used on a hard surface or thin carpet, as thicker or softer surfaces can cause the board to behave incorrectly. A set of feet extensions is mentioned in the manual to allow the board to be used on softer surfaces, these were packaged with the US version released on May 19th at the Nintendo World Store in New York.
