Project excitebike for gaming and exercising fun in tandem

The idea of marrying exercise with gaming isn’t all that new, but it’s different each time. The exercise bike controller here is a true justification to the fact that it’s getting better with time. Now, instead of wasting those hours putting on weight playing games, come grace you a** onto the excitebike, an exercise bike hocked to an Xbox, which lets you control the in-game acceleration pedaling it. The creator has stuffed a magnet on the wheel to trigger a series of sensors, which is a tinker only worth some $70 to the exercise bike. The “frequency with which the sensors are hit determines the “pressure” on the analog stick,” so I think it’s going to be some task to efficiently manage the Xbox controller while you pedal, but you’ll have to get used to it to lose the extra calories you’ve added being lazy all these years. What’s your thought? Okay save them till you've seen the video after the jump.

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Via: Reddit/CrunchGear