NOT A NEW IDEA!
noticed today that reblog has a reference to an MIT project called cyclescore. you gotta love the hype… jonah brucker-cohen and survivor thailand and survivor all-star contestant shii-ann huang did a project like this many years ago (1999) called net gym - there’s even a New York Times article which mentions the project:
… Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Shii Ann Huang created Netgym, connecting stationary bicycles to computers that showed a virtual bike trail. Connecting bikes to computers is nothing new, but the students hoped to create something more: an Internet-based game, where people on exercise bikes anywhere in the world could race each other in a virtual world while pedaling in their own homes.
and hey… aren’t there tons of companies trying to do/sell this stuff by now?
UPDATE: in addition to the CatEye gamebike mentioned in the original we-make-money-not-art post - there is also the computrainer. just a quick bit of advice: if you’re going to “invent the future” just make sure the future isn’t already here, okay? 
August 24th, 2004 at 7:12 pm
amen!
August 24th, 2004 at 7:21 pm
August 25th, 2004 at 6:35 pm
Hi,
well, i did welcome your feedback: it’s always amazing to see how much of the stuff that lands on the market today is in fact the “recycling” of what students had imagined years before.
we-make-money-not-art has no ambition to invent the future, but i’m probably the one to blame for that ambiguity since i’ve never clearly written what the blog is about (maybe it’s not clear to me either
Anyway, you’ll have to be patient with me as i am quite “new” and discovering with naive eyes what’s being done, blog it freely and have no pretention to be exhaustive or anything.
August 25th, 2004 at 6:39 pm
hey regine! the comment about “invent(ing) the future” was not directed at you! it’s the slogan for the MIT media lab… just a playful poke at their hype machine, nothing mean-spirited…