This counts as exercise, right?

Achieve maximum hand fitness without going broke on Kleenex

If evolution didn’t want you to play video games, you’d have tentacles instead of hands. So don’t go and squander your birthright by catching carpal tunnel. Wrist guards and gel pads are for old mammies—that, you know. Thankfully, there’s a new device called the PowerBall Gamer that claims to keep the upper extremities of chronic button mashers in tip-top shape.

The pixie dust at the heart of the $60 PowerBall is its internal gyroscope, which spins faster and faster with the more resistance you apply. A built-in speed meter measures your top speed and maximum RPMs, allowing you to keep tabs on your “workouts” while bragging to friends about how freakishly awesome you are at . . . spinning stuff.

Not only will PowerBall’s magical orb help prevent repetitive stress injuries—it actually promises to improve your gaming prowess by providing you greater range of motion, flexibility and increased dexterity. And just think: If you ever get the hangnails and clamminess figured out, you’ve got a shot at someday owning a halfway decent handshake. Go on, get huge.

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