At 30 years of age, I’m experiencing what’s often referred to as “middle age spread”, meaning my size 32 pants no longer fit. I finally see why my fellow geeks wear T-shirts emblazoned with dragons and wolves and Geordi La Forge: it distracts the eye from the Mountain Dew belly.
I don’t want to be one of those guys, I look bad in shirts with Xbox logos. But I spend ten hours a day sitting at a desk, and drive my ass everywhere (edit: Hickey has a drivable ass. – Blake). And I’m too busy for a gym. I’ve been hoping for a solution, and the nice people at Slim Geek have come up with a something that looks perfect.
It’s a desk with a built-in recumbent exercise bicycle. It is a work of genius. Don’t let the circa-1997 Compaq 5800-series computer in the logo fool you, friends, these people obviously know their target audience. There’s even a girl in the photo. Yes, that’s what they look like, and after a few weeks at this desk, maybe you can meet one someday.
Geek-a-Cycle [Slim Geek]
Fitness technology is long overdue. I’ve been waiting for an onslaught of technology products with a focus on improving fitness to hit the market for awhile now.
I love to workout and I make time for it, but like Matt, it is a challenge because I am sitting most of the day at a desk developing applications and work long hours. So innovations in this area will be much appreciated.
I also think tech companies should find some innovative solutions for human-computer interaction with devices that provide a fitness benefit. I think the interface gloves used by assclown Tom Cruise in “The Minority Report” would be a tremendous success. Imagine interacting with the computer for 12 hours while moving your arms independently (and better yet while standing). You could be a geek with tickets to the gun show!
And worse case scenario, if nothing develops in this area of consumer computing and electronics…Joel Johnson has provided us with today’s blog entry, “Damn You, Mom: Style Tips for Fat Men”. LOL. :-P
http://dethroner.com/index.php/2006/09/28/damn-you-mom-style-tips-for-fat-men/
This is like the desk advertisement in Woody Allen’s “Bananas”. Yet I still want one.