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...current health--including the ideal fat-burning and carbohydrate-burning heart-rate zones for me. Then the New Leaf system generated an eight-week daily fitness plan and uploaded it to New Leaf's website. (Additional assessments are $150 per eight weeks--still cheaper than a real, live personal trainer.) Once that's done, just fill in your New Leaf user name and password, and the iPhone grabs your daily workouts from the server. (See the top 10 iPhone applications...
...this got into the 16 movies they made together in eight years. At their infrequent best, they had the sharpest mixture of foolery and character of all movie comedy teams. In the 1951 Sailor Beware, Jer has been suckered into boxing a much bigger guy. Dean, the kid's trainer, dispenses pre-fight advice (with many sly slaps to the gut and face) while Jer does such an acute impersonation of a punch-drunk pugilist that the tough guy and his team are scared away. In their seemingly artless but perfectly timed badinage, the two are slick, robust and funny...
...Stranger yet, Uncle Milton's Force Trainer wasn't the only levitational gadget at this year's American International Toy Fair, the four-day trade show that brings a gazillion manufacturers and retailers together every February in New York City. Also on display was Mattel's new Mindflex, which has players move a tiny foam ball through a mini-obstacle course with their thoughts. Or, more precisely, with their brain waves. (See the best toys from the 2008 American International Toy Fair...
...Just think of it as a drinking game, an onlooker said during the Mindflex demo at the toy fair - which, irony of ironies, does not allow any kids inside. The $79.99 game, like Uncle Milton's Force Trainer, is intended for ages 8 and up. (See the top 10 gadgets...
...Force Trainer - which is limited to moving a ball up and down in a tube - may not be as complicated as Mindflex. But it does have Star Wars branding, which possesses a magical retail power all its own. The toy features 15 levels of training: increasingly difficult challenges involving how high to raise the ball and how long to hold it steady before changing its height. Along the way, Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi offer words of encouragement as hopefuls try to attain Jedi Master status. May your limited discretionary-spending power be with...