My birthday is in March. I’m giving you forewarning now so you can begin saving. As you know, I like gaming, and I am an exercise nut. As you also know, I’ve been waiting for the perfect peripheral to combine these interests, and have blogged a number of candidates over the years, and I’ve been using a dance mat and playing DDR lately despite how foolish I feel doing it. Now there’s an even better candidate which recently won an award at the CES in Las Vegas – the Kilowatt. It uses the principle of isometrics to give your muscles a workout, and works with any game, on all platforms. I so want one of these. They’re also going to make an attachment for it that adds an exercise bike onto it.

I’m kidding about it as a birthday gift of course (it’s $1200 plus shipping), though I do really want one, and if I can swing it $$$-wise and the exercise bike attachment comes out I will in fact get one. There was also more promising news from CES in this regard, as Konami bought a struggling exercise chain in Japan and is releasing a set of products related to software and hardware they’re installing in the chain, things like attachments for your existing exercise bike, games aside from dancing that work with your dance pad, and more. Seems like a small niche of interest to me is expanding, which is of course great from my perspective.