The GymyGym is like a Bullworker combined with an office chair. The admittedly rather comfy-looking chair, comprising a frame laced with bungees in place of seat-squabs, is further enhanced with exercise equipment, meaning you can visit the gym without leaving your desk.
More bungees with various handles and ankle-cuffs sprout from various spots on the chair, letting you work-out your flabby office-bound body. It certainly is ingenious, and you can pump pretty much every muscle with the right exercises. But I imagine it is also doomed to the same novelty graveyard as the car-seat bead-mat, and Jack Donaghy’s wonderfully mis-named Funcooker.
First, if you’re going to change into sports gear to work out (like the people in the demo videos), then why not just go out and take a walk. Second, you’ll look ridiculous exercising amongst your co-workers as they munch on bagels and chocolate, snickering at you. And they will, because you don’t have your own office. If you did, you could afford a gym membership.
You know what this chair will actually be used for? A nerd torture device. With all those bungees, it will be ideal for tying up the new guy on his first day and descending upon him, Nerf-guns loaded. $600.
GymyGym product page [GymyGym via the Giz]
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