NeuroActive Bike promises to train your brain as you work out
By Donald Melanson 
posted Jan 6th 2009 6:50PM
posted Jan 6th 2009 6:50PM
Ok, so it may not be quite the brain-wired contraption that the name suggests, but this so-called NeuroActive Bike is still pretty unique in its own right, and it could possibly be headed to a gym near you. Apparently, the bike has already turned up at a handful of gyms in Canada and France, and the company behind it, Brain Center America, has now announced that it'll be headed to some Lady of America Fitness Centers in the US. The bike itself is basically a standard exercise bike with a built-in Brain Age-type game, which BCA says includes 22 different "brain-stimulating exercises" that'll train different parts of your brain as you work out. No word on a home version just yet, unfortunately, but the basic software is actually available separately if you want to have a go at building your own rig -- and if you do, be sure to send us some pictures.
It increases intelligence, stimulates neurons, and it's a great way to stay in shape.
sounds to good to be true.......
YES! Finally my brain will be as well muscled as my bulging biceps!
so you dont learn much from beatin off do you ?? :P
O my gosh, i love CES but its so time consuming to read and see everything, and im so anxious i cant sit still reading one post, thats how much i get into it, and i MUST read everything, you know the feeling or am i the only one. Feels like I wotn be able to keep up with engadgets 10 pages a day for CES, lol, but I must. Thou G4 is gonna be showing off on thursday and all week so that will save me some time by watching it
We have these recumbent cycle's at our gym, however the monitor is usually is showing R.O.B., or some talk show of some type. It actually makes me go to one of the older ones without a monitor.
Interactivity would be nice though, to keep yourself interested in something other than listening to music while warming up on the bike.
i want to learn while sleeping... would that be considered multi-tasking?
would you like some soma with that ??
Mouse controlled??? How 'bout a touch screen.
Make that capable of holding my home computer - Monitors, keyboard, thumbball and Game controller.. Then make an addon for WoW that you have to be pedalling for your character to move.. MMO's could be a cardio workout!
Talk about an Epic Excercise program!!
Oh come on, just do what I do and use an ordinary excercise bike with the handlebars modded to lay horizontal, then put your laptop on said handlebars, I've been at this four nearly an hour and a half now barely noticing I've ridden about thirty kilometers because I've been on facebook, engadget, and msn the whole time.
Works well. Seriously.
If you would like to learn more about the NeuroActive Bike and the the Complete Brain Training program bike, see their site: www.braincenteramerica.com
Sweet - talk about the future of exercise. I'm getting my dad one of these things for Christmas: http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/software/comp067.html