Mobile outdoor treadmills: a new trend?

Long time readers of this blog will remember this post about the Treadmobil, a ungainly device for people who want to use a treadmill outside. Who could imagine there would be call for such a thing? Who could imagine there would be a call for two versions of it?

And, yet, here's a second outdoor mobile treadmill device. This one, at least, looks a heck of a lot more maneuverable than the previous one.

Just what we need: Treadmobil

I hope everyone has enjoyed whatever winter holidays you celebrate, and I hope you've had a chance to get out and about on foot. Here in the Boston area, almost all the snow we got a couple of weekends ago has melted, making walking once again easy and enjoyable.

Did you get any good walking gifts for your holiday of choice? If not, you could consider this extravagant absurdity:



(Click through to the YouTube page for [some profane] the amusing comments, if you're so inclined.)

This thing is hilarious. Tip o' the sneaker to agile reader Mark for pointing this out to me.