Geek-a-Cycle: Blog Your Way to Fitness
- September 28th, 2006
- 3 Comments
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]
webonics (Who am I?)
1 year ago
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!
webonics (Who am I?)
1 year ago
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/
Nate (Who am I?)
1 year ago
This is like the desk advertisement in Woody Allen’s “Bananas”. Yet I still want one.