Comments on: Stay Fit While Surfing the Web

By: gperron

gperron — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:18:47 +0000

Great, but sometimes you have to leave the office!

By: LuvZ

LuvZ — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 03:26:00 +0000

It may not be the most practical idea out there, but hey.. let’s give them credit for trying to increase physical activity in the lives of such a large group of people who are at risk for living sedentary lifestyles. The concept may not be the smartest one out there, I agree, but despite that, it got your attention didn’t it? Take it as an PSA at the least: They’re bringing awareness to a population that has increasing rates of obesity. I commend them for that. Plus, with a few tweaks, this walkstation could probably double as a regular workstation as well. LOL!

By: beni

beni — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:51:25 +0000

I like the idea, but they would have a lot of tweaking to do with it. First of all they should have a touch screen instead of a key board – something like this ( http://youtube.com/watch?v=g8pxDvuSnQQ )- , to make up for the lack of steadiness, and they should make a separate desk space for sitting and not centralize the the computer system. Or you could just but a treadmill and put it in your office and get a young and eager(desperate to get to the top) intern to read you the daily report cause i would rather spend $6500 on a personal “slave” then on this, but thats just me.

By: jbkmo

jbkmo — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:32:05 +0000

Agreed with most people. How is anyone able to focus on their work while running? Work and working out should be two mutually exclusive events that should never come together…unless of course your work is as an Olympic athlete or whatever.

In addition to wasting precious attentional processes, this has to be terrible for your eyes. It’s bad to read in the car because your ciliary muscles have to adjust so much and so often, and it must be hell for your visual system to have to correct for the parallax of your walk, not to mention squint to adjust to the projections of your monitor.

It’s just, frankly, a huge waste of time and money. With $6500, go on a mini-vacation, get away and go for a run along the beach someplace foreign. Do work with your work time and focus on it, and when you’re on holiday play hard. No sense in combining the two and making both suffer.

-j

By: kristurr

kristurr — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:21:23 +0000

6500!? i think i’ll just remain in an out of shape status. lol

By: benmanners

benmanners — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:08:50 +0000

um, but the 6500 dollar pricing is a little out of range. a regular treadmill is about 400, a desk is about 400, and a comp even at a good price is about 1-2000 dollars. +since its a walkstation…how much exercise could you achieve…

basically..i think this idea is a complete waste of parts and time. if someone were to buy it, they would probably be only using it minimally if any at all..i mean..you cant do any real work while running/walking..

By: benmanners

benmanners — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:06:19 +0000

i agree with most of the previous posts. honestly, how lowly has mankind become to have a need to exercise during a business situation? i understand the practicality of such an invention, but at the same time, this combination of a treadmill and a desk is highly recruited as a naive idea.

By: vm3z9

vm3z9 — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:03:24 +0000

I think the computer would be more of a distraction than anything. If you get tired you’ll tend to lose focus on your work. If you’re really concentrated on your work you might slow down and not get the full exercise you need. That’s just my opinion, but I wouldn’t waste money on that.

By: djmikey

djmikey — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:36:05 +0000

I hope you’re not doing any design work that requires pixel perfect selections! :)

By: mattsfolio

mattsfolio — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:15:53 +0000

Pretty cool, I wonder if it’s water proof from those sweaty people ;)