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Wii games exercise shock

Playing Wii games is “not of high enough intensity to contribute towards the recommended daily amount of exercise in children” These are the conclusions of Lee Graves, Gareth Stratton, N D Ridgers and N T Cable in their paper “Comparison of energy expenditure in adolescents when playing new generation and sedentary computer games: cross sectional [...]
SiRFstarIV and the reality of indoor GPS

Apart from really useful advances such as better power management, improved accuracy and better time-to-fix, the new chip from CSR, has an interesting feature in the form of their smart sensor interface. This provides “to improve the location experience, enable greater context awareness and open the door to superior indoor positioning accuracy”. This includes a [...]