what's your favorite gadget you own that many people probably don't?

Don't know if it qualifies as a "gadget", but can't live without my under-desk treadmill 🙂

Been walking while working since ~2016. Had my first treadmill die on me finally within the past several months, such a quality of life downgrade that I replaced it almost immediately!

Founding team @pods | Engineer | Farcaster OG #481

Ugh I’ve been meaning to do this – have a good rec?

Product & /ux researcher – looking for my next role | also building /firstdraft | markfishman.xyz

Unfortunately, this is currently more complicated than it ought to be!

Back in 2016, I bought a Lifespan TR1200-DT3 and was pretty happy with that over the years. However, when it finally bit the dust earlier this year, after a brief research stint, I gathered that Lifespan isn't quite what it used to be.

It's way pricier than my original Lifespan, but it seems pretty high-quality and I've been happy with it thus far! Seems like it'll last a long time. And, it's hard to put a price on health and feeling good 🙂 

Unfortunately, in 2023, there's not a lot of great options (having spent time looking around recently).

There's a lot of options on the cheap, low-quality end, but they end up dying or otherwise having issues in relatively short order (and at this point in my life, I prioritize minimizing hassles!).

On the other end of the spectrum, there's a few higher-quality options, but they're pricier. Very little in the middle!

TL;DR: based on my research, it seemed like the Unsit (at ~$2500 USD) is basically the "best" option circa 2023.

I've logged probably 1-2 hours a day on average since February and it's been working great for me! Very little maintenance (e.g. lubrication), quiet, plenty of space to walk on, etc...

Something about it getting taken over by a private equity or management company iirc, and they let go the original team and started using lower-quality parts to juice profits (something like that).

Long story short, I ended up ponying up and getting an Unsit this time around (via Fully, the desk/office company).