Exercise device electrically coupled to a computing device for powering the computing device and quantify the play of a video game associated with the computing device
OwnerNissim Amarinventor
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Abstract
An exercise device electrically coupled to a computing device for powering the computing device and quantify the play of the coupled video game through a video gaming software application is provided. The exercise device is adapted with an electromechanical energy conversion element for producing electrical power for the computing device. Also integrated to the exercise device may be one or more sensors sensing data that the video gaming software application may use to interact with or otherwise quantify the play of the video game, thereby providing incentives to encourage sustained play and, as a corollary, exercise of the user
Claims7
A system operatively associating an exercise device and a computing device, comprising:
- an electromechanical energy conversion element configured so that in order to power the computing device mechanical work must be applied to the exercise device.
A system operatively associating an exercise device and a computing device having a user interface, comprising:
- one or more sensors operatively associated with the exercise device, each sensor adapted to sense one or more data sets regarding the operation of the exercise device;
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- a video game software application loaded on the computing device, the video game software application coupled to the one or more sensors so that one or more of the data sets is input of a video game electronically represented on the user interface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.