Face Training: Keep Your Face Young with Nintendo's Help

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Nintendo is releasing another training game. This time the focus is on facial muscles and it’s called Face Training. The original DS training game is, of course, Brain Age. The news on Face Training comes from Wired’s Gamelife:

Otona No DS Kao Training, or Face Training, includes a camera that plugs into the Game Boy Advance slot on the Nintendo DS and videos your face as you play the game. The idea is what the Japanese call “facening,” or facial exercises. By doing certain facial exercises, you can make your skin more elastic and have a prettier face, or so goes the theory.

Games are excellent for training, learning and self-improvement. This game will be a success if it helps the player keep fit and makes them feel like they are improving themselves at the same time. As Jane McGionigal said in her ETech keynote, technology is measured on its ability to improve the quality of one’s life.

Tying a digital game to the physical world is still novel. As sensors become cheaper and more accurate I think it’s one of the things that we will see more often in games. Sensors and games are both areas that I’ve been looking at for ETech (the CFP will be out soon); please leave any other interesting examples in the comments or mark them for me on Del.icio.us (use for:brady when bookmarking something).

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