Vertical Workstation??
Did you know you could lose as much as 66 pounds by sweating on you PC? Well using the Mayo Clinic's vertical workstation, that just might be the weightloss wave of the future.
The vertical workstation is basically a desk mounted over a treadmill that lets office workers to kill two birds with one stone - send emails, check invoices and write reports and burn calories at the same time, say Professors James Levine and Jennifer Miller of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who came up with the machine/desk.
A study conducted at the Mayo Clinic and published in the British Journal of Sports medicine found the average obese person burned 100 calories an hour while walking about one mile an hour while working. The treadmill desks cost about $1,600.
The desk isn't exactly a new idea. The Mayo Clinic has been working on such a prototype as part of its Office of the Future research.In fact in a Network World article from 2005 Levine said that instead of sitting on conventional desk chairs, workers in the Mayo Clinic's prototype environment stand at their desks with a moving treadmill surface underfoot.
The vertical workstation is basically a desk mounted over a treadmill that lets office workers to kill two birds with one stone - send emails, check invoices and write reports and burn calories at the same time, say Professors James Levine and Jennifer Miller of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who came up with the machine/desk.
A study conducted at the Mayo Clinic and published in the British Journal of Sports medicine found the average obese person burned 100 calories an hour while walking about one mile an hour while working. The treadmill desks cost about $1,600.
The desk isn't exactly a new idea. The Mayo Clinic has been working on such a prototype as part of its Office of the Future research.In fact in a Network World article from 2005 Levine said that instead of sitting on conventional desk chairs, workers in the Mayo Clinic's prototype environment stand at their desks with a moving treadmill surface underfoot.
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