Treadmills

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An Overturned Army Tank Is A Treadmill For Olympic Athletes

9:40PM June 6, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

They wanted to use an American tank, but weren’t allowed – that’s why the American team exhibiting at the Venice Biennale used an overturned British tank for their treadmill masterpiece, Track and Field, instead. More »


Science

Milking Cows For Electricity

10:40AM April 17, 2010 | Kevin Lee

The livestock power mill makes cows even more productive turning farms into virtual power plants. More »


Gadgets

NordicTrack X7i Could Allow You To Jog On The Moon

5:17AM March 2, 2010 | Mark Wilson

Your Technotronic playlist aside, running on a treadmill is inherently boring because you are stuck in a room running on the same platform. But what if you could switch things up and simulate actual, real world topography? More »


Mobia From Nautilus Is The iPod Of Treadmills

8:20AM October 23, 2009 | Sean Fallon

The Mobia treadmill has a couple things going for it. Right off the bat you notice the clean and simple iPod-esque aesthetics from Frog Design. It also has an approach to fitness that could finally help get you in shape. More »


Review: SurfShelf Treadmill Stand For Laptops Is Brilliant

8:00AM September 2, 2009 | Jason Chen

The SurfShelf does what many home-made and Ikea-bought shelves, tables and stands do: put your laptop in front of your face while you’re on a treadmill. And it works beautifully. More »


Sit-to-Walkstation Gives You The Option To Be Lazy

11:40AM June 10, 2009 | Andi Wang

Treadmill-desks aren’t knew. But the $US4900 Sit-to-Walkstation is the first we’ve seen that has a space for a chair, giving you the option to exercise while you work or, once again, stay lazy. [Product Page via BoingBoing] More »


Gadgets

This is Stephen Colbert’s NASA Space Station Treadmill

4:10AM May 8, 2009 | Jason Chen

The Stephen Colbert treadmill looks tiny, but there isn’t a lot of space to go around up there on the ISS. How does this work?

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Entertainment

NASA Names Treadmill, Not Toilet, After Stephen Colbert

12:34PM April 15, 2009 | Jason Chen

After almost getting a toilet named after him, Stephen Colbert will be surprised to know that he’s getting his name on a treadmill instead. Our surprise? NASA picked the EIGHTH most popular name instead.

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Gadgets

Treadmill Bed Sends Mixed Signals to the Morbidly Obese

12:30AM September 3, 2008 | Adam Frucci

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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Gaming

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

11:00AM August 26, 2008 | John Herrman

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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