Gizmodo: saunas

Röger Leige Wave Infrared Sauna Is One Swank Torture Device

Mark Wilson — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:50:00 EDT

It's 2009. And to sweat your balls off, you shouldn't need to squeeze into a little room with a bunch of other sweaty men.

Those blue lights actually have nothing to do with the heating system, nor do they serve as UV tanning bed lights. They're just LEDs that futurize the wood decor a bit.

Röger's Leige Wave actually uses a carbon fiber system to produce infrared heat that "penetrates deeply and directly into the body and provides an intensive deep relaxation." In other words, you'll be roasted over cherry wood, the results of which should really be quite yummy. [Aqua Emotion via Born Rich]

Sauna Gondola Car is Perfect Mix of Snow, Skiing and Nudity

Kit Eaton — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:15:00 EDT

Screw jacuzzi-ing on top of Mont Blanc, or shrinking your unmentionables in a freezing ice sauna, this is the best kind of winter sport relaxation: a ski gondola has been converted into a sauna. Ohboy yes, you can dangle free and naked over a snowy mountain in the Lapland resort of Ylläs. Après-ski? Nah... with passengers like these two it'd be more like instead-of-ski. Much more fun. [TheTelegraph]

Infrared Sauna, Burn Calories While Doing Nothing

Gizloco — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 12:32:20 EDT

Healthmate's sauna uses infrared technology to make your sauna-going experience all the more pleasurable. Rather than having to heat the air and have steam do all the work, the infrared heats the body directly. The company claims that within 30 minutes users can lose up to 1,000 calories. Additionally, all that warming warmth has other health benefits, including an increased blood flow that may help with things like arthritis and sprains.

Compared to regular saunas, which only eliminate three percent of body toxins (which are...?), this sauna eliminates up to 20 percent of said toxins, doing so while operating at a lower temperature. It's made from spruce or cedar and costs only about 50 cents per hour to run.

The single-person version costs $3,500. For people who aren't terribly lonely, the five-person version costs $8,250. Before you know it, your house could end up like Mr. Hefner's mansion. – Nicholas Deleon

Product Page [Healthmate via TechEBlog ]