The Personal Energy Orb might be just the thing to encourage physical activity

Sep 10, 2012 13:48 GMT  ·  By

Two scientists recently came up with this highly innovative gadget, which basically makes it frustrating – to say the least – to use your computer unless you first ride your bike for a sufficiently long amount of time.

To cut a long story short: the Personal Energy Orb is designed and manufactured in such a way that it connects to both your computer and your bike.

Whenever one goes bike riding, this gadget gets recharged, and the energy built up in this manner allows one's mouse to move across the screen.

Once the energy levels go down, the mouse gets ever slower in responding, so naturally – sooner or later – one has no choice but to go out, pedal and gain back the possibility to use the computer.

From where we stand, this innovative technology could very well help us choose a more active lifestyle, and even get us to cut down on current pollution levels, seeing how it promotes an environmentally-friendly way of getting around.