Gizmodo
Mitsubishi, Citizen, Sharp, Hitachi and Tanita are working together to create networked exercise equipment, which would track your progress across multiple machines and over time, giving you a detailed report of your time at the gym to go along with your anecdote about that dude who never wipes his sweat off the butterfly machine.
It's an interesting idea, and one that hardcore gym rats are sure to jump all over. It's also something that people with health conditions will probably use to give their doctors more info on just what happens to them when they're physically exerting themselves. Look for the project to pay off sometime next year, at least in Japan, with the results presumably making their way over to the US eventually.
Project Page (in Japanese) [via Digital World Tokyo]
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Until now, I had no idea that Japanese women worked out in power suits.
Isn't this the same thing as FitLinxx (http://fitlinxx.com/brand/about_tour.htm)?
My local YMCA already has all the machines on a network. You put your account pin into them before you start excercising and it tracks your progress, while providing you wil email updates on how you are doing.
There are similar devices already out there. The YMCA in my town (one of them, I should say) issues cards to members. You slide the card into each machine you visit and it has records of your past workouts. It can also be set to work as a personal trainer, telling you how many reps to do, how fast to run and for how long, etc.
I work for a company called Technogym that already has such a product on the market. It is called the Wellness System and it not only tracks your workouts but allows trainers to create workouts for you, gives you email notifications on your progress and has many more features. For more information you can take a look at our web site:
http://www.technogymusa.com/
Click on the wellness system link at the bottom.
This picture is awesome in that it actually reflects the sexism existing in Japanese business today. I salute you, Giz! Good on you for outing this problem to the world!
She is actually powering the PC with a pedal powered generator.
In an effort for Jails to go green all future inmates will be sentenced to X number of megawatts. Once you have generated enough power you are free to go.
Not a bad idea..... LOL
I do not want to exercize on a machine that blinks and beeps at me. Don't.
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