How about a desk peddler that controls power to your monitor? You have keep the cadence above x RPMs or the monitor shuts off. Pedal faster, it comes back on. You'd need:

1. Desk Peddler with a...
2. Cadence Monitor hooked up to a...
3. Programmable RPM Switch

Hook the switch inline on your computer monitor's power cable and start pedaling!

Imagine if companies installed these under each desk in the office. And... imagine if they were hooked up to a battery that charged from your pedaling and powered your monitor and computer?

I'm not drunk... I promise!

"The truth is, you and I owe quite a lot to religious people before us, who put their lives second to the lives of the poor and oppressed. It's hard to find the motivation to do that if life is simply from dust to dust."

That just seems bass-ackwards religious brainwashing to me. If you truly believe in an everlasting sky-fairy heaven following this life, then what does human suffering matter in this life? I mean, what's the motivation beyond the self-centered motivation of getting one's soul into heaven? This is just a temporary hold-ground where you're waiting to ascend up up and away and through those pearly gates, right?

Whereas, if you're an atheist like me, you understand this is the only life any of us has, and that you MUST do the most you can with it! For what? For my children and theirs! For my friends! For my species! For life!