The Game Dame™

When Wii Fit came out, people finally started realizing that games can actually be more than something to keep you entertained between Heineken swigs and bathroom trips. For those with limited mobility (elderly, obese), the Wii Fit can make a difference in their health, but many gamers break more of a sweat watching the infamous hula-hooping video than they do playing the games. Those who require more of a challenge to feel the burn will appreciate this World of Warcraft mod using treadmills with joysticks programmed to make running across Azeroth a little tougher than the developers initially intended:

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If treadmill running and exploding hearts don’t appeal to you, you’ve got a few different exercise machines to choose from (and no… bong smoking does NOT count as an exercise – EVEN IF the bong is really heavy.) Gamercize, for example, sells stationary cycles and steppers that connect to your console. If you stop cycling or stepping one one of these babies, your controller won’t work. Another company, NeoRacer helps convert laundry racks back into exercise bikes through inexpensive kits that convert them into virtual race cars. By downloading their software and either converting your existing exercise bike or purchasing their ViBike, you can control the speed of your vehicle by pedaling in a variety of web downloads or supported PC titles like Crazy Taxi and Need for Speed.

Visit Gamercize.net»
Visit NeoRacer.com»
Read the Gizmodo article about the WoW treadmill»