10 Daily Things

Cabinet Magazine posted a great feature on the secret history of Cybex-like exercise machines. Apparently, the first “gym” filled with mechanical fitness contraptions was built by Swedish physician Gustav Zander in the late 19th century. Zander’s mechanical horse was an early version of the Stairmaster, a contraption for cardiovascular fitness designed to imitate a “natural” [...]

I still have no idea what I was supposed to do…