Nepal, Jan. 14 -- With the New Year, resolutions are made every year to exercise more, stay healthy and walk and run more. But as with most resolutions, a few weeks into the new year, they tend to get forgotten. But if you could get paid for staying fit, would that encourage you to walk or run more?

This is exactly what a new mobile app, called Walkman Green Coins, aims to do. Developed by a company of the same name, Walkman keeps tracks of the total steps you walk with the app turned on and converts those steps into coins, which can then be used to redeem discounts at a number of stores across the Valley. The app also calculates the total number of calories you've burned and the amount of carbon dioxide you would've produced if you had ...