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My apartment gym has a Nordictrack treadmill that I hate nearly every aspect of. First of all, it requires you login to use any of the programs, which doesn't really work with 200 potential users. It has lost internet every single time I've used it and needs a restart, even though I use manual mode, the UI buttons are tiny and impossible to read while you're running, and don't respond correctly, and worst of all, there's no goddamn place to put your phone so you can watch Netflix.
You lost me at “login” on a treadmill lmao.
Treadmills are already pretty niche considering walking/running is free.
Why would you login to...a treadmill? Why would it need internet? So you can watch Netflix on the world slowest Public computer?
The trend of having touch screens on things is horrible enough. We definitely jumped the shark with technology long ago
Your history, prob one of those gameified ones where you run on google maps like trails
imo my ideal one would just have an adjustable phone dock with wireless charging.
kagis
Hmm.
Yeah, I was thinking that it'd have some kind of bike-style handlebars or something, but nothing quite like that.
thinks
So, there are these...I don't know what they're called. "Gooseneck leg camera tripods"? They're intended to let you mount a camera anywhere, but if you feel strongly enough about this, I'm sure that one can get one of those and I'm sure that someone makes a quarter-inch-bolt
which camera tripods use
adapter to a smartphone holder. Can probably stuff a phone on pretty much anything with that.
goes looking
Okay, I don't know if anyone else makes this. I thought it was a whole class of devices, but maybe it's just one manufacturer. Basically, three gooseneck legs with grippy things down them, "Joby Gorillapods". Just wrap the gooseneck legs around whatever you want to mount the thing to.
https://www.amazon.com/gorillapod-original-tripod-point-cameras/dp/b0087fftt2
And once you have your quarter-inch tripod mount from that, there are a ton of different products that will let you mount a phone on a tripod bolt.
https://www.amazon.com/phone-tripod-mount/s?k=phone+tripod+mount
Can probably even get some sort of telescoping counterweighted-arm thing that'd let you jam it right in front of your eyeballs
I have a mic boom like that on a tripod
though I dunno if you want to deal with lugging something like that into a gym. And if the treadmill is vibrating at all, an arm would amplify the vibrations.
Holy crap, you put a lot of thought into my issue, lol thank you.
That's not quite what we have though, the display is like a modern tablet, and if, and only if you login can you watch the Pelaton-style videos, which are your only options for workout programs.