Dogfight [Video of Flight Simulator cum Exercise Bike in Action]

Electronic Sports has launched Dogfight – a next generation exergaming fitness product. Basically, a flight simulator and an exercise bike cobbled together. You pedal, the plane flies! Spring-loaded handles are provided for controlling the aircraft.

Talk about making exercise fun, if this doesn’t get the couch potatoes to hit the exercise bikes then nothing will. As an incentive to burn fat on the exercise machine, you get to enjoy virtual flight across several landscapes such as blazing deserts, through severe snows, and also a tropical archipelago.

You can move to the Dogfight phase only after having mastered the basics of flight. Hopefully this will mean that you have to sweat it out for a while on the machine. Once you are done with the basics, you can pit your skills against others in the gym or against online foes. You can play competitively in two modes – “Fly Solo” and “Dogfight”. I think this contraption could also help us improve our hand-eye-feet co-ordination. You can maintain scores and your win / loss record at Electronic Sports website, meet other enthusiasts, learn new tricks, and find out to what extent people have managed to reduce the inches from their waists.