Participants exercised at 60% of their maximal heart rate twice a week for 1 h under professional supervision, plus once a week at home or at the sports centre with the same intensity; they were given a sport-tester Polar FT4 (Polar, Kempele, Finnland) and a pedometer (Omron HJ-113, Omron, Kyoto, Japan) for individual physical activities and were repeatedly instructed on how to use them.
Testers are given a private e-mail address and encouraged to treat it as they would a conventional personal assistant.
"I haven't focused too much on speedy speedy stuff, but it was good yesterday giving myself a tester.
Then, for example, 'a child with autism may only be able to participate as a tester given no support; however, given a one-on-one special education aide plus a communication device, the child could be a full design partner'.
You can sign up for the beta here, but Cogenz is only offering one invite per industry sector, so be quick now!? Beta testers will be given a 100-seat license of the system when it is out of beta.
In another, a real estate agent refused to meet with a black tester who was not prequalified for a loan, while a white tester was given an appointment without being asked if she had prequalified.
Meanwhile, our older child testers gave a big thumbs up to the Science Museum Crystal Laboratory Kit, which they said had great play value and achieved results that impressed family and friends.
Christian Negouai, who had been fined £2,000 after missing a drug test last season, had to drink water to give a urine sample when testers from UK Sport again picked the City player for a test after training on Tuesday.
The service is being launched into a managed beta which will give a select group of testers 500MB of free online storage space.
This year it has given testers a new version that is 100 kilowatts; at about 150 pounds it is one-third the size of the old one.
