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Treadmill Bed Sends Mixed Signals to the Morbidly Obese

Posted by Adam Frucci at 12:30 AM on September 3, 2008

This handy invention is a combination of a treadmill and a bed. It automatically props your fat arse up and puts your feet on a treadmill. Apparently, you can exercise this way. Wait, what?


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Treadmills Used to Play WoW (Result: Usain Bolt Couldn't Cut It as a Blood Elf)

Posted by John Herrman at 11:00 AM on August 26, 2008

Most avid World of Warcraft players don't wonder too much about what it would be like to truly run as often and as far as their avatars, because a.) that sounds hard and b.) they're too busy wondering would it would be like to run at all. Nonetheless, some crafty young WoWers managed to hook up a couple of treadmills and joysticks to their computers in such a way as to simulate actually running across Azeroth. Even when some handicaps were programmed into the system, the (sort of) reality was clear: WoW characters are FAST.

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