Flash Focus Trains Your Eyes In Minutes A Day
It's funny that I saw this press release in mailbox this morning because I saw the commercial for Flash Focus:Vision Training in Minutes a Day just last night. I thought it was very similar to Brain Age, but for your eyes. Sure enough, here it is. This is a part of Nintendo's spiel about the game:
It might sound like a strange concept, but top athletes have long used high-tech computerized visual training programs to give them an edge on the baseball diamond, basketball court and football field. Now Nintendo makes this remarkable technology available to anyone who wants to have fun while tracking improvements in the various visual exercises. It's a great tool for moms who like to keep a "peripheral vision" watch on their kids or for people who want an edge spotting holiday sales.
It'll include activities such as flashing two items at once, leaving you to determine if they matched or not. I like visual games, so I might give this game a shot. If you've managed to get your hands on it, let me know how it is. For more details, make the jump.
Nintendo's Flash Focus Offers a New Vision for Video Games
Fun Eye Exercises Challenge Hand-Eye Coordination, Peripheral Vision
REDMOND, Wash., Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The new Flash Focus(TM): Vision
Training in Minutes a Day is like nothing you've ever seen before. Just as
Nintendo's brain-training games gave your gray matter a workout, Flash Focus
aims to train users' eyes in areas like hand-eye coordination, peripheral
vision and visual acuity. It launches today, exclusively for Nintendo DS(TM).
It might sound like a strange concept, but top athletes have long used
high-tech computerized visual training programs to give them an edge on the
baseball diamond, basketball court and football field. Now Nintendo makes this
remarkable technology available to anyone who wants to have fun while tracking
improvements in the various visual exercises. It's a great tool for moms who
like to keep a "peripheral vision" watch on their kids or for people who want
an edge spotting holiday sales.
"Flash Focus represents another one of our software titles that delivers
fun with a purpose," says George Harrison, Nintendo of America's senior vice
president of marketing and corporate communications. "Flash Focus should be in
the training arsenal of every coach in the country, but it's also ideal for
casual game players of any age who want to keep their vision sharp."
The first time users pop in Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day,
they take a series of tests to determine their DS Eye Age. As users spend a
few minutes each day with the activities, they get better and better at the
exercises and their Eye Age lowers to demonstrate their improved focus
abilities.
Some of the many fun activities in Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes
a Day include:
-- A variation of the hidden ball "hat dance" seen at baseball parks: A
circle is placed in one of three boxes, and the user must follow the
location of the circle as the boxes shuffle rapidly on the screen.
-- Watching two symbols flash on the screen, then tapping the touch screen
to indicate whether they matched.
-- Memorizing a target letter and counting how many times it appears in a
fast-moving stream of letters on the screen.
Super Timsy
Posted to Video Games on 15 October 2007
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