Burning those unwanted calories has always been a great trouble for corporate employees. The busy schedule has kept them earning with least emphasis on personal care. How hard they wish burning those calories, while receiving those paychecks.
Perhaps the happy days are here, if your one from them - Grand Rapids-based Company, Steelcase Inc. has developed Walkstation - the first height-adjustable workstation with an integrated treadmill to hit the market - use demonstrated.
Designer James Levine, researcher at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn, touts of having taken science from the lab to a product that could potentially help millions of people. Levine spent the past 15 years studying energy expended during daily activity, before he finally came up with Walkstation - that he a developed in collaboration with office furniture making giants Steelcase.
The Walkstation combines the facets of an office workstation with a treadmill and is aptly designed to help improve employees’ health while they work. The adjustable product offers users a low-impact slow stroll rather than a sweat-inducing run-walk.
The quiet-running treadmill operates at a maximum speed of 3.5 mph, and will sell for about $4,000, while the company is expected to begin taking orders for its Walkstation from Nov. 19. The key to fighting obesity and other health problems, we know is to keep ourselves more occupied with other things than just spending time over the desk. Therefore, I agree with Levine, when he projects Walkstation as the next iPod, saying everybody is going to want one.
