When a suitcase just won’t do.
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Flexispot Deskcise Pro V9: Half desk, half exercise bike, and you’re all sweaty. How much does it cost again?
Tech journalists don’t exactly file copy from the front lines, testing software while dodging AK-47 fire. The major risk to our health - like millions of office workers - comes from dozens of Mars Bars or other snacks eaten while tapping away on the keyboard at home.
Billed as a fix for this sedentary lifestyle comes the Flexispot Deskcise Pro V9, which we tried out so you don’t have to.
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“eh - it’s a living.”
I have a colleague that takes meetings on a treadmill desk; he sometimes does 40k steps in a day full of meetings. On one hand the idea really appeals to me, and then I remember to be lazy again.
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Why was it discarded? Customer dissatisfaction? Warranty not covered? Enquiring minds want to know!
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Bad decision to take it out on your balcony on a windy day?
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Rapture!
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Alex, I’ll take “What is pivot?” for $500…
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Honestly, it’s the best possible outcome in a capitalist industry. Those executives are not going to walk away from the money. Much better that they pivot to safer, healthier, more environmentally-sound ways of making billions.
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With any luck his venture will be a template for the fossil fuel industry to follow.
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A trio of boffins at the Georg August University Göttingen and Münster University have put together a low-cost yet high-resolution microscope for educational users – using smartphone parts and Lego bricks.
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Technical information about the development of the microscope and its capabilities are available in a paper published in The Biophysicist under open-access terms.
The instructions themselves, meanwhile, can be found on GitHub under a permissive Creative Commons licence.
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A British government minister has claimed that cannibalism on the high seas should now be a thing of the past, as modern navigation and safety technology have made it very unlikely sailors will find themselves in circumstances where they might want to eat each other.
This hopeful statement came during a debate in the House of Lords on human rights at sea when Baron Mackenzie of Framwellgate stood to ask a question of Charlotte, Baroness Vere of Norbiton, the Conservative government’s Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport.
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Since most of Franklin’s expeditions ended up with cannibalism, this isn’t as weird as it sounds.
Gloucestershire Constabulary has announced it is the first police force in the world to use a centralised doggy DNA database to clamp down on pet theft - but it’s relying entirely on a commercial provider for both the tech and the database.
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