<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3c2e4abb-4fde-47de-8a78-d90de57ff791/D10D4D2D-3BB2-4937-8305-B0016B697A55/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.plasticbamboo.com/2007/07/18/coin-operated-exercise-machine/" href="http://www.plasticbamboo.com/2007/07/18/coin-operated-exercise-machine/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.plasticbamboo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.plasticbamboo.com/2007/07/18/coin-operated-exercise-machine/"><DIV id="post-1182" class="post"> <H2><A title="Permanent Link to Coin-operated exercise machine" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.plasticbamboo.com/2007/07/18/coin-operated-exercise-machine/">Coin-operated exercise machine</A></H2> <SMALL>18th July, 2007 </SMALL> <DIV class="entry"> <P><IMG alt="Conbini Exercise machine" src="http://www.plasticbamboo.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/conbini.jpg" /></p> <P>The thought of going to a gym can be negative, especially when you think of puffing away on exercise machines, and sweating so much that your hair sticks to your face. A machine in Japan called Conbini, a name taken from the Japanese for convenient store, is proving to be very popular though, as it prevents either of those off-putting aspects. The machine pushes the person’s feet up and down, and back and forwards, and a sweat is rarely broken, as it seems to be doing most of the work. A 500 yen coin ($4.10/£2) is simply inserted in the Conbini, and a 10 minute exercise regime begins. To prevent wandering male eyes, there are ladies only sections and partitions between machines to give you a carefree bounce about!</p> <P>Via <A href="http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/magazine/15-07/st_jsgw">Wired</A></p> </DIV> <P class="postmetadata"> Posted in <A rel="category tag" title="View all posts in Technology" href="http://www.plasticbamboo.com/category/technology/">Technology</A>, <A rel="category tag" title="View all posts in Life" href="http://www.plasticbamboo.com/category/life/">Life</A> by manda | <A title="Comment on Coin-operated exercise machine" href="http://www.plasticbamboo.com/2007/07/18/coin-operated-exercise-machine/#respond">No Comments »</A></p> <IMG alt="pink dots" src="http://www.plasticbamboo.com/wp/wp-content/themes/pbtheme/images/pinkdots.gif" /> </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D10D4D2D-3BB2-4937-8305-B0016B697A55/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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