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Big congrats to “Dancing Craze” inventor, Stacy Cho, the winner of HopeLab’s Ruckus Nation competition and recipient of $50,000 in prize money!

What is Dancing Craze? It’s not really like anything else on the market today, in fact, its more an expansion of real dancing and the sharing of that experience. Dancing Craze users will wear motion sensors which will replicate the user’s moves on screen, and then allow the dancer to share those moves with others all over the world. You can even try your hand at matching other’s moves that have already been submitted, or submit group dances.

Hopefully we see a strong community build up around this product and really do see more kids getting up and moving to use it!

Hopelab will now begin prototype development of Dancing Craze, and the second prize winner, iBlob. So its anyone’s guess how long these products will take to get to market. Hopefully not long.

Ruckus Nation’s competition to get kids moving…  moves on!

The semi finalists have been chosen and you can view the whole listing at http://www.ruckusnation.com/semifinalists.html. There’s some really wacky stuff there, but mainly a good solid group of products some of which you’ve probably even thought of yourself.

My favourite is “mile a minute” under the “other” catagory. The premise is that you earn points and other accolades which are tracked by a hybrid mobile phone/pedometer. The part I really like is the “getting free minutes” of talk time for your phone…

Having said that, I think we really need incentives which appeal to kids. So, I’m not sure how well this will apply… do kids need money these days? When I was that age I was glad to get a dollar to go and get mixed lollies at the local store. But then again there was no such thing as mobile phones back then either!

Congrats to the semi-finalists so far. I greatly look forward to seeing the finalists, and wish I had the time to make my way to San Franciso to see the whole shebang.

Tune in again soon for my secret dealings with… “The Colorado Experiment”.

I finished my Ruckus Nation Judging today. I can tell you it was a fascinating experience… but as to the details on what exactly I judged? Unfortunately I can’t go into that.

What I will say is that I got a lot of entries that used very popular current day technology and tweaked it to make it more enjoyable for kids, and to provide education at the same time. Some were much, much more successful at this than others, mind you. I really had a good chuckle at some of the entries, and some were quite mind blowing and wow worthy.

I can’t say I judged any entries which were cures to modern day obesity in kids… But who knows, I’m no Nostradamus.

Until next time, enjoy yourselves, and get active!