I know a lot of people that still use them, myself included. And actually, the exercises you can do on the Wii are very good for weight loss. You don't need a super-high intensity work out to lose weight. And while diet is important, exercise is the bigger factor. You can eat whatever the fuck you want IF you do enough exercise that your burn remains higher than your intake.Legion said:
Wii Fit Tells Woman She Has Parkinson's Disease
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Maybe we can have a breakthrough like this with the Kinect.
Please step in front of Kinect Camera
scanning....
Your diagnosis: total dumbshit...please visit your doctor for more options
OT: Seriously, I think that was pretty cool. It may be giving the board-thingy a bit too much credit for the diagnosis, seeing as it didn't actually giver her the diagnosis. Still, it got her pointed in the right direction. Two thumbs up.
Please step in front of Kinect Camera
scanning....
Your diagnosis: total dumbshit...please visit your doctor for more options
OT: Seriously, I think that was pretty cool. It may be giving the board-thingy a bit too much credit for the diagnosis, seeing as it didn't actually giver her the diagnosis. Still, it got her pointed in the right direction. Two thumbs up.
Little bit of a miss leading title, I thought it told her that she had the Disease, still a intresting story though.
Nintendo, USE THIS.
A couple of reprograms and you got a system that can find several nuerlogical disorders and tell people they need to see a doctor.
A couple of reprograms and you got a system that can find several nuerlogical disorders and tell people they need to see a doctor.
Agreed. The only reason she caught it was that she knew enough to pay attention to that oddity.Timbydude said:
Same, I thought the story would be that she may have accidentally been a bit wobbly and the game would come up with a little hint. 'It appears you have Parkinson's Disease, would you like some help?'Irridium said:
OH! From reading the headline, I thought it said on the screen: "You have Parkinson's. You know, the Michael J. Fox disease." Not it gave clues that lead to a doctor diagnosing her with the disease.
That's pretty cool.
That's pretty cool.
Humph. Wii Fit has begrudgenly won my approval. Still won't touch the thing myself, but now I will not rage whenever someone mentions it.
It's not like it was designed for this, anyway. Cool that it worked out, though.
I burst out laughing when I read the thread title though.
I burst out laughing when I read the thread title though.
No! Bad headline, bad!
Wii Fit did not tell a woman she had Parkinson's disease. It told here she couldn't keep an equal balance on both feet. Based on her assessment of this as an abnormality, she pursued further diagnosis from a professional and found out she had Parkinson's disease. Wii Fit didn't diagnose her condition; her and her doctor did.
For the same reason, we will not see a Wii Doctor. Computers can measure and model things, even point out abnormalities, but they can't reason about the cause of such things. No matter how complex algorithms get, it always comes down to us humans to find patterns and interpret their meanings.
Please, for the sake of journalism, don't make exaggerated headlines! Don't claim things that didn't happen! Don't make people think that Wii Fit can diagnose medical illness!
Wii Fit did not tell a woman she had Parkinson's disease. It told here she couldn't keep an equal balance on both feet. Based on her assessment of this as an abnormality, she pursued further diagnosis from a professional and found out she had Parkinson's disease. Wii Fit didn't diagnose her condition; her and her doctor did.
For the same reason, we will not see a Wii Doctor. Computers can measure and model things, even point out abnormalities, but they can't reason about the cause of such things. No matter how complex algorithms get, it always comes down to us humans to find patterns and interpret their meanings.
Please, for the sake of journalism, don't make exaggerated headlines! Don't claim things that didn't happen! Don't make people think that Wii Fit can diagnose medical illness!
Nice to see that someone was able to take a small clue and work from there to reach an actual diagnosis. WiiFit was by no means designed for this sort of thing, I'm sure, but it's cool to see that someone was able to derive so useful knowledge from a simple balance test.
More than they would do otherwise.BadassCyborg said:
Never underestimate the power of waving your arms around hysterically.