You know how you work out in the gym, with the crazy techno music and the stair-climbers, and you need motivation aside from not succumbing to a lifetime of obesity, diabetes, and dirty looks? Now you can have that motivation. With music-playing pants.
Music-playing pants. You’ve dreamt about them for years—pants that can serenade you to sleep, keep a dance party going, that you can pretend to play guitar to—and here they are. At least, conceptually. The Dancepants Kinetic Music Player was an entry in Designboom’s Green Life competition, designed by Inesa Malafej and Arunas Sukarevicius from Lithuania. Not only are their names brilliant, so is the concept. Kinda. That as long as you keep moving, the Kinetic Music Player will power your music player. When you stop, so does the music. So, in a sense, they’ve invented the exercise version of Guitar Hero.
There are a number of issues with this, the most ruinous also being the most obvious: Don’t you need that music most when you’re right about to give up? You know, so the Scorpions can rocket you back into your workout schedule? Also, just for a fun juxtaposition, have really depressing music powered by the device. So you’ll have to do jumping jacks to listen to Morrissey.
Also, they’re leggings. But a cool concept, nonetheless.
Comments
james
November 18th, 2009 - 1:28:32 PM
exercise version of guitar hero was done a long time ago. they called it DDR.