Tag: TREADMILL

One of the ironies of virtual reality is that the endless digital worlds which it provides require some real-life square footage in which to operate. Researchers and programmers have been battling this problem ever since VR's heyday in the '90s, coming up with weirder and weirder-looking contraptions to mask the fact that you're "walking" through a make-believe "world." German, Italian and ...

These days, an office desk or cubicle often resembles the control panel for a spaceship. There are enough gadgets, gizmos, lights, and monitors to have even the technologically inclined scrambling for an instruction booklet. We've chronicled this new wave of office accessories, and have mentioned the weird phenomenon of office treadmills. Now, Steelcase is introducing one more treadmill to the ...

New Scientist is always bringing us fun new inventions and advances in technology. The latest batch of inventions promises to make exercising easier for the morbidly obese, clear atmospheric disturbance from satellite images, and create energy from human motion. The treadmill bed attaches a treadmill (surprise, surprise!) to the foot of an adjustable hospital bed. The bed slowly tips the ...

Whether you've been injured or you're just plain lazy, you'll probably find that the treadmill can be an intimidating piece of machinery. Sometimes the idea of just standing and supporting your own weight on your two legs is a terrifying notion. But that is where the Alter-G anti-gravity treadmill comes in. The Alter-G uses a NASA-designed air pressure system to reduce a runner's (or more ...