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NEW YORK (UPI) – A personal trainer at a New York gym said she has been using a Nintendo Wii on a 20-foot TV screen to help her clients shape up.

Dorothy Evans, a personal trainer at Gravity Fitness in the Le Parker Meridien hotel, said she first instructs clients in actual sports — for example, boxing — then has them play the Wii Sports counterpart to the activity, the New York Post reported.

“I use it in what we call ‘active recovery time,’ during which normally I would have them do a wall sit,” she said. “But this is like a reward.”

She told the newspaper the video games give many of her clients more of a workout than they were expecting.

“You’d be surprised. It may have little to do with the real sports, but we get people’s heart rates up to 140 to 150 beats per minute — although some of that may just be the excitement of the game,” Evans said to the Post.

The trainer may be on to something — a recent study by the American Council on Exercise found Wii Sports games to burn nearly as many calories as the real thing, the Post report said. Boxing, for example, burns an average 10.2 calories per minute, while Wii Boxing burns an average 7.2 calories per minute.

Copyright 2008 by United Press International

SEMINOLE, Fla. (UPI) — Authorities in Seminole, Fla., said a five-car wreck was caused by a motorist who was distracted by a naked woman changing clothes in her back seat.

Pinellas County sheriff’s deputies said Teah Limitone, 22, was traveling north in the middle lane of Seminole Boulevard when she heard her changing passenger, Ayla Gabriel, make a distressed-sounding noise, the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times reported.

The deputies said Limitone turned her head to see if Gabriel was alright and ran a red light while she was not looking at the road. Limitone’s 2003 Acura struck a 2000 Saturn in the intersection before sliding between two cars in the southbound lanes and striking a fourth vehicle.

Deputies said Limitone was issued a citation for running a red light after the July 21 incident. No serious injuries were reported.

Copyright 2008 by United Press International

Announcing the new Built-in Orderly Organized Knowledge device, otherwise known as the BOOK.

It’s a revolutionary breakthrough in technology: no wires, no electric circuits, no batteries, nothing to be connected or switched on. It’s so easy to use even a child can operate it. Just lift its cover. Compact and portable, it can be used anywhere — even sitting in an armchair by the fire — yet it is powerful enough to hold ass much information as a CD-ROM disk.

Here’s how it works: each BOOK is constructed of sequentially numbered sheets of paper (recyclable), each capable of holding thousands of bits of information. These pages are locked together with a custom-fit device called a binder which keeps the sheets in their correct sequence. By using both sides of each sheet, manufacturers are able to cut costs in half.

Each sheet is scanned optically, registering information directly into your brain. A flick of the finger takes you to the next sheet. The BOOK may be taken up at any time and used by merely opening it. The “Browse” feature allows you to move instantly to any sheet, and move forward or backward as you wish. Most come with an “index” feature, which pinpoints the exact location of any selected information for instant retrieval.

An optional “BOOKmark” accessory allows you to open the BOOK to the exact place you left it in a previous session — even if the BOOK has been closed. BOOKmarks fit universal design standards; thus a single BOOKmark can be used in BOOKs by various manufacturers.

Portable, durable and affordable, the BOOK is the entertainment wave of the future, and many new titles are expected soon, due to the surge in popularity of its programming tool, the Portable Erasable-Nib Cryptic Intercommunication Language stylus [PENCIL].

SALINAS, Calif. (UPI) — Police said a Salinas, Calif., man stole a Chevy pickup truck only hours before the vehicle was taken from him at gunpoint.

Police Cmdr. Kelly McMillin said Edward Bishop, 33, admitted to police he stole the Chevrolet Silverado truck at about 1 a.m. Saturday, the Salinas Californian reported.

However, Bishop said that later that day, a second man — identified by police as Jomo Sexton, 34 — entered the truck and pointed a gun at him. He told police Sexton made him drive around Salinas until the truck ran out of gas, at which point Bishop said he escaped and phoned police.

Bishop was arrested on suspicion of vehicle theft and booked into the Monterey County Jail.

Sexton was taken to a hospital for treatment after crashing the stolen truck into a flag pole in front of Salinas Fire Station II, and was then released into police custody. He was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, carjacking, reckless driving, driving under the influence, unlicensed driving, hit and run and violating his parole.

“You couldn’t make up something stranger than this,” McMillin said.

Copyright 2008 by United Press International

The telephone rings in the principal’s office at a school.

“Hello, this is Dunn Elementary,” answers the principal.

“Hi. Jimmy won’t be able to come to school all next week,” replies the voice.

“Well, what seems to be the problem with him?”

“We are all going on a family vacation,” says the voice, “I hope it is all right.”

“I guess that would be fine,” says the principal. “May I ask who is calling?”

“Sure. This is my father!”

“Busted! See you then.” says the principal and then hangs up.

It had been snowing for hours when an announcement came over the high school intercom: “Will the students who are parked on University Drive please move their cars so that we may begin plowing.”

Twenty minutes later there was another announcement: “Will the twelve hundred students who went to move 26 cars, return to class.”

A redneck wanted to learn how to sky dive. He got an instructor and started lessons. The instructor told the redneck to jump out of the plane and pull his rip cord. The instructor then explained that he himself would jump out right behind him so that they would go down together. The redneck understood and was ready.

The time came to have the redneck jump from the air plane. The instructor reminded the redneck that he would be right behind him. The redneck proceeded to jump from the plane and after being in the air for a few seconds pulled the rip cord. The instructor followed by jumping from the plane. The instructor pulled his rip cord but the parachute did not open. The instructor, frantically trying to get his parachute open, darted past the redneck.

The redneck, seeing this, yelled as he undid the straps to his parachute, “So you wanna race, eh?”

WASHINGTON (UPI) – The U.S. space agency is commemorating its 50th anniversary with an interactive multimedia Web site that details its five decades of exploration.

“Combining current and historic video with state-of-the-art computer animation, the virtual exhibit takes a World’s Fair approach to NASA history, featuring pavilions that host each decade of the agency’s challenges and achievements,” the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said in a statement, adding visitors will be presented with unique insight into NASA’s activities over the years.

“We’re very excited to have people come and take a look at NASA’s history,” said Brian Dunbar, the space agency’s Internet services manager. “We’ve been able to take a wide range of material and weave it into a virtual tour that allows people to explore at their own pace.”

David Mould, NASA’s associate administrator for public affairs, said the Web site marks the agency’s “first real foray” into animation.

“It represents a new communications medium for us and we have been fortunate to get the support of a lot of people that has enabled us to include some recognizable historic figures as part of this interactive commemoration,” said Mould.

The Web site is available at http:///www.nasa.gov/50years.

Copyright 2008 by United Press International