The American Heart Association is a non-profit organisation that aims at facilitating better cardiac care and treatment, and reducing death by way of cardiovascular diseases and other heart-related problems. It has recently been announced that the Association is set to make a joint announcement on May 17th, along with Nintendo of America. The announcement and press event, which will take place in New York, will be attended by senior executives from both companies. 

While this is hardly enough information to consider any sort of “confirmation” regarding the device, it is quite possible that this announcement involves the Wii Vitality Sensor, revealed at E3 last year, in some way. The Vitality Sensor is a device with the ability to detect the pulse of a human being, in addition to other signals transmitted by the body, set to revealed in full at E3 2010 in June. 

So far, the only “game” that supports the Vitality Sensor believed to be in development is WiiRelax, discovered by us in a trademark last year.

http://www.siliconera.com/2010/05/14/american-heart-association-and-nintendo-working-together/

It could be wii vitality, but also money or publicity or something

You can see the brilliance brimming at the corners here. With the Heart Foundations backing they're going to tap a whole new range of customers. Wii Fit lightning strikes again.

I predict the Vitality Sensor will be responsible for a 'Nintendo Wii Saved My Life' headline in the next few years.

Maybe they should just concentrate on good games rather than useless peripherals.

You can only call Wii Relax or the vitalitysensor bad, if you played it.

OT: good move from Nintendo. They are making big plans for Wii Relax. 

Yes, because Super Mario Galaxy 2 is obviously not a good game.

@ Wagram - I agree - this Wii Fit thing they've recently announced is going to flop! I doubt it'll be used in a single game other than Wii Fit and I think Wii Fit will sell 300 k maximum.

Anyway, most likely a Wii Relax announcement

Interesting for sure. Absolutely Nintendo is looking to expand the blue ocean again. Can't wait to see what they are up to.

Or Metroid Other M, or Zelda Wii...