i.play Offers Video Game-like Playground Equipment

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The i.play system combines interactive electronics with conventional playground equipment to encourage young people to exercise. Source: Playdale.
The i.play system combines interactive electronics with conventional playground equipment to encourage young people to exercise. Source: Playdale.

For children of today’s generation, swings and slides don’t seem to cut it anymore—not when you have an Xbox and Playstation in your living room. In an attempt to curb the rising childhood obesity rates partially associated with indoor electronics, researchers in the UK have designed an outdoor playground unit based on the concepts of video games.


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