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The book "Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men" by Leonard Sax goes into a lot of detail behind some of the underlying problems causing this.

I'm building what I hope is an educational and entertainment project for when my son is older. It's a cross between Dynamicland[1] and Osmo[2], that combines a projector, camera, and computer vision to hopefully bring programming and creativity out of the monitor and into a semi-real world. I'm just designing the system now and I posted on reddit[3] to ask the machine learning community for advice. I'm also reaching out to computer vision engineers to offer to pay them for a few hours of their time via Zoom to get advice. Some examples of similar systems are [4] and [5].

I don't have a name for this yet.

[1] https://dynamicland.org/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87hKzrjRWww#t=1m10s

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/fl2akd/d_a...

[4] http://tablaviva.org/

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfFwz5Qjr3c#t=40s

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This can be done by searching for a person's name, clicking "see more results for X". Then click on the magnifying glass beside the person's profile, and click photos.

In addition to the comments regarding exercise causing an increase in the length of one's life, don't forget about the dramatic increase in the quality of life due to exercise. If you feel better you'll be more productive.