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i.play, also known as the Intelligent Play System"A Playground for the 3rd Millennium", North-West Evening Mail
/ref> is an interactive
playground A playground, playpark, or play area is a place designed to provide an environment for children that facilitates play, typically outdoors. While a playground is usually designed for children, some are designed for other age groups, or people wi ...
"i.play intelligent play system by Playdale", Core77.
/ref> designed in collaboration between Progressive Sports Technologies Ltd and Playdale Playgrounds. The i.play has switches and lights which light up and make sounds, requiring participants to push them to earn points. The development and evaluation of the i.play system is being conducted by Phil Hodgkins as part of a
Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...
in sports technology at
Loughborough University Loughborough University (abbreviated as ''Lough'' or ''Lboro'' for Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a public university, public research university in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It has been a university sinc ...
. The world's first i.play system was opened to the public at Barrow Park,
Barrow-in-Furness Barrow-in-Furness is a port town and civil parish (as just "Barrow") in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. Historic counties of England, Historically in the county of Lancashire, it was incorporated as a municipal borou ...
, UK on 20 July 2007.sport-kit.net
/ref> Image:Boy on i.play.jpg, i.play tournament, Barrow Park July 2007 Image:Children jumping.JPG, Children celebrate the launch of i.play at Barrow Park, July 2007


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External links


i.play site

Playdale website
Play (activity) Loughborough University