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Traditional Playgrounds Go High Tech to Fight Obesity
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Traditional Playgrounds Go High Tech to Fight Obesity
VINCE HORIUCHI
Salt Lake Tribune
First Posted: June 01, 2012 - 9:20 am
Last Updated: June 01, 2012 - 2:48 pm
The Republic
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/playgrounds-tech/playgrounds-tech
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SALT LAKE CITY It's not the same as saving Earth from an invasion of
aliens bent on world domination, but climbing the jungle gym at several
local parks does offer something video games don't -- actual exercise.
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Yet the challenge children's playgrounds have had in attracting kids is
first pulling them away from their Xbox or PlayStation.
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So parks officials are starting to fight fire with fire.
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Salt Lake County's Evergreen Park is constructing a children's electronic
playground set that includes blinking lights, an LED controller and its
own computer server to ignite the same senses in kids that video games do.
It will reopen in August after a makeover.
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Salt Lake County Parks & Recreation Project Manager Morgan Selph turned to
Danish playground equipment manufacturer Kompan, which produces play sets
that offer different electronic games built into the climbing and spinning
on the set.
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Evergreen Park has built two separate electronic playground sets, the
Swirl, which has spinning bars that kids can grab, and the Nova, a
spinning platform similar to a merry-go-round. The Swirl has a separate
electronic controller that a child stands on and then chooses one of three
games the other kids can play. In Colour Catch, for example, a child
assigned to a different color must find a flashing button to press for
points. In another game, Direction Correction, kids run on the Nova's
spinning merry-go-round and line up a yellow dot with a light display in
the center. The games also record high scores like video games do.
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"These are physically challenging games, and that's what appeals to the
older kids. And that's the challenge -- to get older kids back to the
playgrounds," said Bob Ross, president of Play Space Designs, which sold
and installed the playground.
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