This week’s salacious patent description of the week is “Exercise device with elongated flexible member“, US patent #D507311, granted July 12, 2006 to Jaremy T. Butler and William T. Dalebout. The patent document features this drawing. Its shape may seem a bit counter-intuitive:
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Resonance: Aerobic exercisers shake skyscraper
Resonance is a simple physics concept (which can be expressed in lovely mathematics). Two Korean news reports tell about a recent example: Aerobic exercise blamed for tremor at Techno-Mart A form of aerobic exercise performed by dozens of people caused the vertical vibration felt in certain floors at Techno-Mart, a 39-story shopping mall in Gwangjin-gu, […]