Having a look at Science Daily today, the Mayo Clinic has invented an app for the IPhone and the IPhone Touch that allows you to measure your low-level physical activity, such as standing. The app is the result of research showing that leaner people tend to spend two and a half more hours per day standing than did heavier people.

Both the IPhone and the IPhone Touch come with motion sensors, so the app just measures the level of activity. It is a sort of game without any pressure. There is a suggestion that the app will be ported on to other platforms as more and more smartphones come with motions sensors these days.

I don't own an IPhone or an IPhone Touch, and I don't plan to do so as I have another type of smartphone, but if anyone does, perhaps this app might be help as a motivational device. It can, according to the article, be downloaded free from ITunes.

Here's the Science Daily article:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 113106.htm

I checked this out on iTunes. It got some really good reviews, so I downloaded it. I'm going to give it a try.

Great! Let us know how you get on.

I'm curious too, I've been dragging that thing around for 3 years now. I'd love to know what I actually do in a week.