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Stanford student's game helps fight child obesity - San Mateo County Times(Childhood Obesity News)

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When Stanford University design graduate student David Ngo wondered how to get kids to exercise, he immediately rejected the adult solution — the gym. The new competition, sponsored by the Redwood City-based nonprofit Hope Lab, aims to generate ideas for products to fight childhood obesity, said Fred Dillon, director of product development. Ngo, a former aerospace engineer and now a student in Stanford’s Joint Program in Design, designed the product in less than a week, after he woke up one morning with the idea. To serve a more practical purpose, Ngo designed a translucent sake carafe that lights up from the bottom so drinkers know how much of the beverage is left. Hope Lab, whose first product was a video game called Re-Mission for kids with cancer, plans to try turning between two and five of the contest entries into prototypes that may later be developed into actual products, Dillon said. Read Childhood Obesity

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