The intersection of technology, mobile apps, and videogames is rapidly changing our daily lives. Gamification, the tactic of employing elements of gaming into other more mundane tasks, is the natural product of this development. With Yumit, eating a healthy dinner is transformed into a fun game for children.
Getting your kids to eat their dinner has never been easy, but getting them to play certainly is. That’s why Yumit seized an opportunity to make them one and the same. By connecting an interactive dinner tray to a videogame, kids are rewarded for eating more, and healthier, food. Yumit brings 21st century tech to the dinner table in an incredibly innovative way.
The app works with a tray, plate, and set of silverware that measure and record, by weight, how much food is being eaten — it even has a string of LED lights that turn green as the food disappears, tracking progress in real time. This progress is transformed into virtual powers, energy and add-ons for a character in a videogame that can be played after the meal is finished.
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Technology Pioneers are those who not only develop something new, but do it in a wholly innovative way — one that is emulated for years to come. The developers of Yumit have done that here.
The idea came during a conversation between the developers, in which all of them complained about the same problem: their kids weren’t eating their dinner. From there, it became obvious that a technological solution was not only possible, but highly marketable, in today’s world.
The idea of implementing software-based solutions to timeless problems like this one is indicative of a changing world. As apps become less of an addition to daily life and more of a standard part of it, the opportunities they hold for BRAIN-DING grow exponentially.
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