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pedal desk
exercise whilst working - pedal to keep your juices flowing | |
idea - either use an excise bike or treadmill when at
work on computers.
problem:
At work i sit on a desk, gradually blood flow stops, the
only moving parts of me are my eyes and fingers. I'm
sure the brain does the same. I know whilst focussed on
a task for hours, somebody's spoken to
me and i've
mentally struggled to use 'human' communication. I've
also felt myself 90% fall asleep at the desk. My body
feels enourmous. Like i'm a little controller inside a
massive robot. You can still work... but i'm sure your
body is starting to sleep. And in the winter you have to
heat the room to 40 degrees centrigrade to stop your
core temperature from dropping off the bottom.
So - why not have an excersise bike underneath your
desk? Could you concentrate? would it Help you
concentrate? At the worst it would get you a bit of 'free'
exercise. Killing 2 stones at once - you don't have to go
to the gym after work.
I've had this idea for years, as usual everybody thought it
was a rubbish idea. So i 'borrowed' a excercise bike off
somebody and made a standing-height desk.
My conclusion, after 6 months and well over 1000 miles?
it's great. There is No Reason why everybody in the world
doesn't have one. In winter you can sit doing computer
work in an un-heated house. I find i pedal about half the
time. I used the computer for _many hours_ a day - so
that's fine. Occasionally the pedalling stops (i think it's
when i come accross a new problem) but i start again
because the seat is less comfortable when you're not
pedalling.
The daownside is that in the summer you get WAY too
hot. And you need fans to cool you down. But, the
benefits all are true. Make one today!
I know this is a slightly cheaky entry to a half-bakery -
because it's been made. But - i recon the idea is half-
baked enough to be worth a mention...
If people say i should remove it i will...
[edit 1] - i re-wrote the description. previously i
suggested that it could make electricity to power the
computer (which i will do one-day) but this got people
saying "it's the gym which generates electricty" - which is
not idea. The focus is to get some movement whilst at a
desk.
Here's one i baked earlier
http://nicholaswhitworth.com/desk/
Pedal Desk has exercise bike underneath. It's fun. [nicholaswhitworth, Apr 10 2010]
there's this one.
Pedal_20powered_20office
[po, Apr 10 2010]
Low-resistance Model
http://www.amazon.c...Pedal/dp/B001421L06
Yours is better also because it is stabilized by your body weight on the seat, allowing less wiggly resistance. [swimswim, Apr 15 2010]
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...still, [+] for your great illustration of the idea. I also like that you point that it helps keep you warm. I've seen too many people buy electric heaters for that purpose in cold offices. (Expect your sales to be seasonal though.) |
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EDIT: formerly preceded by a beautifully-worded opening anno by Po. |
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Goodness! What are you doing actually making things you've dreamed up? That sort of behaviour just will not be tolerated! This is the HALFbakery by Jove, not the Fullbakery!!!! Fulmination and frothing!!!!eleven!! |
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No, in seriousness, splendid work that man. [+] |
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yep, I said it was most probably redundant as a power gym. deleting annos is not a sensible thing to do. |
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And if I might add... Aside from deleting annos, posting an idea every half-hour or so is also frowned upon. If you spaced them out a bit, this would still be the halfbakery, as apposed to the nicholaswhitworth and shawnbob show. |
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My suggestion is to use capital letters and format your ideas so they don't look like you took a big dump all over the website. |
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Admirable work on your own site though. |
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[Marked-for-Deletion] redundant. |
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It's not a gym which generates electricity! No
electricity is generated. |
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I deleted the posts because they applied to the
previous wording of the idea, which i totally re-
wrote. This is not a power-gym. It's an exercise desk.
No electricity generated. |
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I understand more of what the half bakery is about
now. It's not the forum for ideas I was
hoping. |
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It's about 20-40 'regulars'. New users post *actual*
ideas, and are often slayed for it. The more
experienced users post "joke" ideas... which are
more of a 'joke comment'. The ideas which ARE
excellent (hot ice cubes is GENIUS) can be well
received here - but should probably go into
production instead. I've seen good ideas not
recognised at all. You've got some REAL regulars
here... people that have been on this website
daily for 5 years? But i don't think they're
particularly interested in ideas. I guess it's more of
a "ha ha" site where people laugh at the crazy. It's
not that bad though. Often the 'annotations' box
along the side is for "the crew" to just makes
jokes between themselves. |
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I've had some interesting feedback on some of my
ideas, but there have often been occasions when
people have Not read the post, or not understood
it, or ... are just plain rude (see above) - really for
no reason. |
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It's an odd community, it's not the "mad ideas"
haven i was hoping it would be... but i guess it's
about as good as you're going to get. Also - the
actual website Could Be A Lot Better - and i'll
happily make it for you (bakes person). The half-
bakery is an excellent name - I couldn't ever top
that. |
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You sir, need to delve more deply before making such generalizations.
Most of the regulars have become jaded when it comes to ideas which constantly pop up over and over.
'Every' regular I've been privilaged to encounter is interested in anything new. |
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I've lost count of how many times my ideas have been slapped down for lack of basic knowlege...recently in fact. |
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It is the "mad ideas" haven you was hoping it would be...you just have to smelt a lot of ore in order to find the nuggets and that my freind...is how it should be. |
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Stick around. Several of your ideas have gotten me to thinking and that's aces in my book. |
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New wouldn't be new if it was easy. |
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You're a poopiehead [nicholasshitworth]. |
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However I noticed that your suicide (even though it looks like you're leaving your smelly old corpse behind) post is full of gem taglines. |
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"It's not the forum for ideas I was hoping."
"It's not that bad though"
"It's an odd community"
"It's about as good as you're going to get"
"The actual website Could Be A Lot Better" (without caps)
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dude... your actual idea is "use an exercycle while sitting at a tall desk". |
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[nw], I've been a n00b since 2007. Don't worry, and most of all don't be offended -- as you can see, some like the ideas, some don't. |
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I was quite happy with my Googolplexidecimal idea -- but I offended ALL of the math-centric personalities here, of which there are many, and it was boned into oblivion. |
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[edit] - well, not quite oblivion, as not too many people even voted on it. But it still makes me giggle. |
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