About a week ago, in our post about treadmill desks, we were bemoaning (and marveling at) the concerted ugliness of treadmill design, wondering how we could ever improvise a desk that would be pleasing to look at. Then we stumbled on Core 77’s amazing in-depth post of attempts to rethink the treadmill (with tons of photos, including bedrooms blighted by dreary gunmetal gray exercise machines).

Our favorite (though untested) is the Nautilus Mobia, which can work as a stair-master or a treadmill, or a sort of elliptical-style combo of the two. It looks GOOD and we’re thinking that its counter-like design might night need much of a hack to work at it…

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