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May 19, 2005
Walk-up start for kids' television
Here's a great idea for ensuring your kids don't become couch potatoes. A London university student has come up with the design for a shoe called Square Eyes that measures how much exercise kids do, and converts it into television viewing time.
One button on the shoe records the amount of steps taken by the child over the day. Another transmits the information to a base station connected to the TV. It calculates the time earned and once it runs out, the TV automatically switches itself off.
The ultimate aim is 12,000 steps for girls and 15,000 for boys. For that they can earn a maximum of two hours TV a day. Which is, let's face it, quite a lot.
Posted by cw at May 19, 2005 08:50 AM
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I believe a levy on blank CD's is an outrageous suggestion. At least 95% of all blank CD's I buy are used to store data, photographs, etc and occasionally music which I write and perform myself. Why should I pay a levy to people just because it is possible to use the medium to pirate their work even if I don't?
Also, the copyright laws on print music and photocopying are even more unreasonable, unworkable and unenforceable. Did you know that if you write the lyrics to a song you heard on the radio down on paper so that you can remember them you are breaking the law? Incredible!!
Posted by: Rod Stone at May 20, 2005 03:40 PM