Pokemon Go’s Health Benefits are Moderate, Short-Lived: Study

Claimed to boost physical activity levels and promote public health, augmented reality game Pokemon Go’s health benefits are just moderate as well as short-lived, researchers say. Pokemon Go is a smartphone-based game that projects graphics onto the real world and has been downloaded over 500 million times since its launch in July 2016 in many countries. The findings showed that the game improves physical activity such as walking only moderately, and the effect is lost in a matter of six weeks. The first week of installation saw that the daily…

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Playing Pokemon Go May be Good for Your Health: Experts

Image via AFP Playing Pokemon Go may be good for health as the widely popular augmented reality game is making people exercise more, a UK doctor has claimed. According to an article in medical journal The BMJ, the location-based game is not marketed as a health app but gamers do a lot of walking while playing. The popular app has made the streets of Britain a “reclaimed playground to have interconnected fun,” Dr Margaret McCartney wrote in the article. McCartney noted that a player walked 225 kilometres and lost 12.7…

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Gripped by Pokémon fever? Try this nail art

  WHAT IT IS: A nail-art trend inspired by Pokemon. HOW IT STARTED: Augmented reality game app Pokemon Go has taken the world by storm and the craze has now extended to nail art. HOW IT’S DONE: Head to your local nail salon and ask them to give you anything Pokemon-related on your nails, like Pikachu, PokeBalls and anything from the game’s universe. You can go for straight-up replicas of their favourite Pokemon, or you can add embellishments like glitter and rhinestone to really make your nail art pop. [“source-ndtv”]

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