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According to the doctors, children aged 6 and up should get at least an hour of physical activity every day to be healthy. However, nowadays children tend to stick to the screens of their tablets, PCs and laptops, and getting enough exercises is a problem.
The solution might be the invention by a British student called «Square-Eyes» — a word denoting people who watch too much TV. «Square-Eyes» is a mini-computer that fits into children’s shoes. It counts the number of steps a child takes during the day and sends this information to the «base» — a family computer, for example. The more a child exercises, the more time they can spend passively — watching TV or playing computer games. One hundred steps equals one minute of TV. If a child wants to watch more TV, he or she has to take more steps. Gillian Swain, the inventor of this device, says children generally should spend no more than 2 hours in front of TV or a computer. The optimal steps travelled are 12,000 for girls and 15,000 for boys, which means roughly 15 minutes of television time is earned by travelling 1,500 steps.
Many researchers consider this new technology to mark the start of computers becoming a part of our clothes. What we wear will soon examine our health.