Just crossing our radar screens is an interesting little add-on device for the Nintendo DS that aims to prevent avid gamers from overindulging in their favorite pastime. The Health Control Game Timer integrates a timer system with a proximity sensor in order to make sure that gamers are spending an appropriate amount of time with their handheld and to ensure that those gamers are maintaining a safe face-to-screen distance at all times.

Now, any gamer in a frenzy could simply tear the little thing from the DS and hurl it across the room, but at milder emotional levels, the Health Control Game Timer might just come in handy for gamers whose…