Treadwall Balances Your Love of Rock Climbing With Your Acrophobia
Yes there are pool treadmills, desk treadmills, and water-resistance treadmills for dogs, but the Treadwall throws the horizontal nature of previous treadmill innovations out the window. For 10-grand, you can climb yourself to death in your own living room without getting higher than 10 feet or so, making the inevitable fall when you fail to keep up with the scrolling handholds all the more manageable. But let’s see how some drunken Jackass wannabees fare in the following video.
AU: Wow. I was climbing something very similar to this at the local rock-climbing centre when I was in Cadets back in 1996. Unlike the US to be so out of date…
Yeah, not so good. [BornRich]
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I remembering first climbing something like that at around age 6 so around 1998. In the local Timezone centre. It calculated the metres climbed and adjusted the speed dependent on how long it had been since you’d fallen off. It would then give you a print out at the end of how many metres you’d climbed.