I read this over at techcrunch, about the CEO of ChaCha and his home workstation.
An 8 monitor (19″) setup that is equipped with an exercise bike at the bottom. I’ve always thought a way to help people who sit all day and all night at their computers, is to make their system powered by the electricity created from pedaling a stationary bike. Some of you may think, “but wouldn’t that kill everything if you stopped?” … yes, that’s why you don’t make it kill the computer, just the monitors. If you want to see what’s going on, pedal. It might suck at the beginning, but after a while, it becomes a habit and you’re burning calories.
The CEO of ChaCha, Scott Jones’ setup is very close to my idea, so maybe he’ll read this and take it a step further to invent it. With everyone sitting behind computers these days, why not have the option to force you to exercise a bit while on the computer? Even save a little electricity.
Do yourself a favor and watch the MTV Cribs they link to over at TechCrunch.
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That is one sweet crib…
Hm…. triple and quadruple monitors! I can easily envision this. Tone up while furthering my cause to be the greatest workaholic ever!
You are a genius Ron!
whoa…easy there on the G word! Ask what my SAT score was. Errr, nevermind, it’s not good.
Ahhh i do my “multi thousand dollar spam affiliate codes to the masses” business on an 13 inch mini laptop and it works great. I dont think the bigger the better (did i said this? lol).
Maybe thats why his site needs more than 10 seconds to load? Exercise bike and long loading? Hit the pedal!!
those are great points Sven-chky
and when you use 13″ and “mini” in the same sentence, I think it makes you modest. HA!
HAHAHA
At first glance I thought this was Ron’s office! Then i read about the exercise bike requirement…
MegaD
I’d tried the whole “blogging from the treadmill” thing and found I just didn’t like it. Besides sweating all over my keyboard — something the exercise bike would prevent, it looks like — I found I couldn’t be creative at all while also exercising.
But that monitor spread is amazing. Maybe I should look into putting something like that above my bed?
Personally, when I’m exercising I’m just trying not to puke, so I’m not sure I’d be a great candidate for a person powered workstation.
I am a radiologist in a large group- looking for a stationary bike to be built into a functioning ergonomic workstation to read our imaging studies- need comfortable, workable space for 2 monitors, tracking system (mouse, etc) and dictating equipment- all at arm length reach.
Could this work?
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