The Human Body - Your Body

• Platform:   Windows 95 / 98
• Media: CD-ROM
• Item Quantity: 1

The format is at first mildly perplexing, but on greater acquaintance hugely absorbing. Using the special Life Stages 'navigation ball' the viewer can scroll through six stages of human existence, from womb to wheelchair, taking in some highly involving videos, stills and sound recordings of important bodily processes, like blood circulation or hormone replacement. An authoritative medical dictionary allows you to understand difficult terms, or cherry-pick subjects of special interest; there's also a section, "YouWatcher", devoted to personal health, and offering dietary advice, lifestyle options, even a personal fitness programme based on questionnaires.

But perhaps the coolest bit is the interactive "Bodylabs" section. Here you can play some nifty games with, for instance, your on-screen sperm ("hit that ovary in sixty seconds"), follow the destiny of a meal as it's devoured and digested, and implant the egg you fertilised in the wall of a virtual uterus. You can also make your cyber-self hiccup, sneeze, cough, yawn and belch--a pretty much ideal antidote to that eaten-too-much-turkey post-Christmas dinner feeling. --Sean Thomas

Manufacturer's Description
Embark on an extraordinary voyage through the workings of one of the most incredible structures in the world - your body. This CD-ROM takes you on the journey of life itself from conception to death and decay - as well as allowing you to explore some of the amazingly complex systems that keep our six trillion cells working in concert.

Astonishing video, graphics, still images and text are woven together to illustrate and explain each of the body's key lifestages on its journey from birth to death. Images include astonishing new internal photography and graphic 3D constructions of medical data and scans as never seen before.

Eight Body Labs provide an interactive exploration of the body's key systems. Explore each lab, find out how it works, and actually take control of some of the systems within you, for example - adjust the lens of an eye to try and focus it or, guide sperm on their perilous journey to fertilise an egg.

Assess your own health and lifestyle with the Human Body 'You Watcher'. Three separate modules help you analyse and improve your own nutrition, fitness and lifestyle. A unique data tracker keeps a record of your progress over time.

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