Treadmill Workstation

coondoggie writes "Did you know you could lose as much as 66 pounds by sweating on your PC? Well using the Mayo Clinic's vertical workstation, that just might be the weight loss wave of the future. The vertical workstation is basically a desk mounted over a treadmill that lets office workers to kill two birds with one stone — send emails, check invoices and write reports and burn calories at the same time, say Professors James Levine and Jennifer Miller of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who came up with the machine/desk. There are other things you can try as well. For example, the FPGamerunner, a USB full-size treadmill that works with any first-person shooter (FPS) game, has you covered. Walking on the treadmill moves your character through the game. Handlebars and buttons at the front of the $1,299 treadmill control your direction and fire your weapons." This seems like a lot better idea than me trying to collect Pokemon on an elliptical trainer which will no doubt one day lead to a very embarrassing obituary.

Comments

Great

[thbigr]

I work for an Electric company. I suppose they will want to sell the power that is generated.

One consideration

[dreddnott]

I'd like to know whether this USB Treadmill is bus-powered, or if I'll have to deal with the inconvenience of plugging yet another power brick into my surge suppressor...

Riiiight...

[Mockylock]

I wonder how many people will get wrapped up in the game, bust their ass and get shot across the room after they've been "PWNED".

"Well doctor, someone was spawn raping us and the next thing I know, I was trying to pry my head from under the sofa. I was pwned."

My users can bearly walk and chew gum

[techpawn]

I'd love to see them walk on a treadmill and try to send email at the same time.
Granted, IT would get called to fix the treadmill if it broke.

Only for the hardcore gamer

[The-Ixian]

Imagine moving that treadmill controller around to LAN parties. Only the most dedicated to weight-loss would attempt it, but man would it be hilarious to see the 300 pound guy sweating his ass off getting that thing through the door.

Even better,

[Black Parrot]

Think of all the exercise you'll get while mowing lawns to raise the $1299 to buy it!

It really works

[pytheron]

According to xe.com, you lose 655 pounds straight away !!

Somebody help me out here

[Anonymous Coward]

If it's an urgent email do I have to run faster?

Geeks arguing about exercise

[etully]

Geeks arguing about exercise. Yeah - this oughta be good.

There3 Greate!!!

[Temujin_12]

I'm cucreantly oon a traedmill worksttatioan and I mu8tgst say that6y I lovwe it. It makeeks lossigsn weight so easty. Ittsw a littlwe buumpy but I dootn' think anyoeonq2 nottices.