Keeping fit while having fun! If you own a Wii, here comes the motivation to do some exercises. Wii Fit is a new game that works with the new Wii Balance Board. The Wii Balance Board is a wireless pressure-sensing device, that is able to calculate your Body Mass Index (BMI) and your center of mass.

The combination means the ability to provide you with about 40 fun activities to do at the comfort of your home!

Activities include:

• Yoga Poses
  Deep Breathing, Half-Moon, Warrior, Tree, Sun Salutation, Standing Knee, Palm Tree, Chair, Triangle, Downward-Facing Dog, King Of The Dance, Cobra, Bridge, Crocodile Twist, Shoulder Stand.
• Muscle Workouts
  Single Leg Extension, Press-Up and Side Stand, Torso and Waist Twists, Jackknife, Lunge, Rowing Squat, Single Leg twist, Sideways Leg Lift, Parallel Stretch, Tricep Extension, Arm and Leg Lift, Single Arm Stand, Press-Up Challenge, Jackknife Challenge, Stretch Challenge.
• Aerobic exercise
  Jogging, Step aerobics, Hula Hoop, Rhythm boxing.
• Balance games
  Ski jumping, Ski and snowboard slaloms, Heading footballs, Table tilt, Tightrope tension, Balance Bubble, Penguin slide, Zazen.

Wii Fit was released in Japan on December 1, 2007, in Europe on April 25, 2008, and May 8, 2008 in Australia. The game is scheduled for release on May 19, 2008 in North America. Get notified by Amazon when Wii Fit is available.

Nokia has announced a recall of 300 million of its batteries, which are manufactured by Matsushita between December 2005 and November 2006. This is due to over 100 overheating reports from around the world.

Fret not, HipTech readers never get cellphones exploding on them.

Affected model: Nokia BL-5C battery

This battery is used in the following Nokia handsets:

Nokia 1100, Nokia 1100c, Nokia 1101, Nokia 1108, Nokia 1110, Nokia 1112, Nokia 1255, Nokia 1315, Nokia 1600, Nokia 2112, Nokia 2118, Nokia 2255, Nokia 2272, Nokia 2275, Nokia 2300, Nokia 2300c, Nokia 2310, Nokia 2355, Nokia 2600, Nokia 2610, Nokia 2610b, Nokia 2626, Nokia 3100, Nokia 3105, Nokia 3120, Nokia 3125, Nokia 6030, Nokia 6085, Nokia 6086, Nokia 6108, Nokia 6175i, Nokia 6178i, Nokia 6230, Nokia 6230i, Nokia 6270, Nokia 6600, Nokia 6620, Nokia 6630, Nokia 6631, Nokia 6670, Nokia 6680, Nokia 6681, Nokia 6682, Nokia 6820, Nokia 6822, Nokia 7610, Nokia N70, Nokia N71, Nokia N72, Nokia N91, Nokia E50, Nokia E60

To verify if your particular unit is affected, check out Nokia’s Battery Replacement site.

It may look like the good old PSP, but the new PSP Slim slated to launch in September this year is 30% lighter and 19% slimmer.

Other improvements include faster game-loading and a TV-out feature to output your favorite games, photos, and movies to your big bad HDTV.

It comes in three different colors: Piano Black, Ceramic White, and Ice Silver.

Price: US$199

Zune seems to be fairing pretty well in terms of cult fans compared to other Microsoft products. You don’t see people tattooing Windows logo do you?

Well, this is mszunefan from ZuneScene’s Forum, showing off his new Zune tattoo which took 3 hours to complete.

I hope he doesn’t start regretting when Zune gets phased out eventually.

“As promised, here are some shots of Half-Life 2 running in my Windows VM on my MacBook Pro. If I find some time this weekend, I’ll shoot some YouTube videos of these apps running so you can see how fast they fly.”
- Parallels official blog

I’m really interested to “see how fast they fly.”

Another great feature in Parallels 3.0 is the SmartSelect. It allows you to open a file in either a OS X or Windows program directly, skipping the hassle of having to run the Windows program first and opening the file from it.

The new version will be available in a few weeks, with a new copy costing US$79.99 and an upgrade costing US$49.99. But if you purchase the upgrade before June 6, you’ll knock US$10 off the tag.

Gaming on a Mac has just gotten better!

Halo 3 fans sit tight, ’cause Microsoft has announced the launch of a special Halo 3 edition of its Zune portable music player! Available for pre-order now exclusively from GameStop, the player will cost $249 and ship from June 15, 2007.

The Halo 3 Zune comes with:
Videos:

• Halo 3 “Starry Night” advertisement
• Halo 3 E3 2006 announcement trailer
• Halo 2 theatrical teaser trailer
• Three Halo 3 “making of” documentary videos
• A custom episode of Red vs. Blue – just for Zune!
• The first six episodes of Red vs. Blue Season 1

Music:

• Halo Original Soundtrack – Complete Album
• Halo 2 Original Soundtrack, Volume 1 – All tracks by Marty O’Donnell and Michael Salvatori
• Halo 2 Original Soundtrack, Volume 2 – Complete Album

Artwork:

• Over 120 different images, including game concept art, storyboards, paintings, and conceptual marketing imagery

The sleek black Xbox 360 Elite is finally shipping. But if you had been slow in pre-ordering, it looks like you will have a bit of waiting to do as most online retailers already ran out of stock.

The Xbox 360 Elite sports a HDMI port and a 120GB HDD and will retail at US$479.99. Microsoft also released Black Wireless Controller, Black Rechargeable Battery Pack, and Black Play & Charge Kit to match the black console.

Yes, April’s coming. But according to Game Informer magazine, a black Xbox 360 is in the making and it is no April Fool’s joke.

The new Xbox 360 will feature a larger 120GB hard drive, HDMI output, and includes a HDMI cable. It is expected to retail for approximately US$479.

The Champagne Gold Sony PSP will launch in Japan only, unfortunately. So you bling-lovers should start watching eBay from February 22, 2007.

The new color will sell at 20,790 YEN (~US$172), which is similar to what the other colors go for.

During a PowerPoint presentation for Samsung’s latest 1.8-inch 60GB hard drive, one of the slides contained a picture of something that looks exactly like a PSP.

Does it mean the Sony PSP will be getting some of those 60GB love?

PSP has been out for a while and probably due for an upgrade soon. But, discussions in the blogosphere have shown that most are skeptical about Sony ever putting something non-proprietary in.

What do you think?