Officially 'Wiitarded'

And it finally came to pass that I purchased a Wii Fit for the family (lie: the non-XY majority of the entire family is fit already and has obscenely low bodyfat, whereas I, the XY contingent.....). 

This rounds out the trinity of edutainment/ exertainment that we have in our home. From Brain Age on the girls' Nintendo DS' to Brain Academy on the Wii, we are doing math puzzles, pattern recognition, logic puzzles and otherwise keeping our gray-matter 'plastic'.  On the Exertainment side (not counting the AppleTV affixed to the Sony TV in front of my treadmill), we now have the Wii Fit to help us with our yoga, core training, and ski-jumping..... barring any 'wiinjuries'. 

One of the things that should be covered in serious detail by an emerging technology analyst firm (hint hint) is this entire segment of making exercise more enjoyable than the hit/miss eye-candy at your local Gold's Gym franchise. Sports are fun exercise, however suffer from time and space dependencies that are increasingly impractical in this busy age.  If you could do for competitive exercise ("Beat your brother's 5k record!") what is being done in MMOGs and FPS' with leaderboards and team competition, the US would go from being the fattest country on the planet to the fittest in no time.  My wife has already asked me how I could hack the wii fit software to use our treadmill.

The Edutainment portion of the market already has a head start with people adopting serious games for use in the workplace and in higher education.  People like Tony O'Driscoll in North Carolina are making great strides there and will ultimately make me wish that I had taken undergraduate statistics in 2015 rather than 1987.

Meanwhile, if I ever run into the model for the female trainer on Wii Fit, it will take all my willpower not to throttle her for all the constructive feedback.........