Can Eye Toy: Kinetic Give You the Body of Your Dreams?
Vladimir Cole of Joystiq fame just announced that he will be undergoing an excercise regime consisting of PlayStation 2’s Eye Toy: Kinetic. Can the game really take on his cheestake and beer intake and still help him lose weight?
$500 are on the table.
Vlad says:
I’m skeptical that the EyeToy workouts are going to do anything for my beer-, pizza-, and cheesesteak-fed body. Heck, I’m a 30-year-old student in a full-time MBA program where weekly pub events are considered part of the core curriculum, so I’ve got that going against me. Plus, I’m in Philadelphia, a city that frequently ranks in the nation’s top three fattest cities. I’ve gained 20 pounds in the seven months that I’ve been living in Philly. My waistline’s fat, but my chances are slim.
I’ll blog about my progress periodically as I endeavor to take the pounds off. I’m not going to be changing my beer-and-cheesesteak lifestyle, but I will dedicate at least four hours per week to the EyeToy for the next three months, starting March 12. Maybe the game will prove to be so boring that I’ll give up. Maybe it’ll work. Maybe they’ll eventually release the laser-hair-removal attachment that will complete my transmogrification into the hairless wonder pictured in the advertisements. Then again, maybe I’ll fail miserably, destined to remain a fatty forever.
To motivate myself, I’m going to offer a prize. If I fail to drop 25 pounds, then I’ll give $500 of my own money to one of the Joystiq readers ranked in the top 20 list at right as of June 15, 2006 (selected via a roll of the d20). In other words, I’ve set a goal to lose 25 lbs. If I fail to achieve that goal, then I lose $500 to one of Joystiq’s most active (and valuable) contributors.
That’s genius. If I were in Philly, I’d offer to record the whole thing. It could be the next Super Size Me. But alas, I’m not. There goes my first shot at Sundance.
Well, good luck to Vlad in this endeavor. I hope he does lose the pounds and saves himself the $500. Although Jeremy is on that contributors’ list and perhaps if he won I’d be able to convince him to invest the money into new furniture for the Play Girlz’ Secret Lair. I’d really like a La-Z-Boy.
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1 opinion for Can Eye Toy: Kinetic Give You the Body of Your Dreams?
Matt
Mar 8, 2006 at 7:07 am
It’s only good to have a lazyboy if you can recline in it while playing on a new XBox 360
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