Have you seen the Wii video games? (pronounced wee).

You hook it up to your tv, and then choose a sport - golf, tennis, bowling, boxing, and baseball. You then choose an image, a little person in the video to represent you. By holding the controller in your hand, the tv image - you- will do the exact movements as you do in real life.

Picture yourself boxing. You have to dodge and punch and move around. It's quite a work out. On top of it, every so often, a streamer goes across the screen saying, isn't it time for you to go outside and play?

You can really work up a sweat playing those games, as well as wrench your shoulder from tennis and baseball. One downfall - the controllers have been known to slip from the players hands and kablooey through the tv screen. Then it really is time to go out and play.

I swear, it's the most clever compromise you could dream of. When my boys and their friends hook up the Wii, I have to crank up my air conditioning and turn on fans because they sweat so much. They are doing some cardio!

helen82, the technology behind this is mind boggling. It's wireless. You have complete freedom to use the hand-held controller. So you can move around the room as if you had a tennis racket or to put a top spin on your bowling ball. The big question is, what's next???? Maybe a Wii that delivers hot dogs and beer during a baseball game?