If you’re on a cycling holiday where you spend all day in the saddle, there’s nothing like getting back to your accommodation and flopping down in front of the TV for a well deserved rest. But for guests at one UK bed and breakfast, it really is nothing like that … because Cottage Lodge in Brockenhurst has installed a bicycle-powered television in one of its rooms.

Guests at the retreat in the New Forest National Park have the option of pedaling away to generate the electricity needed to power the LCD TV on their wall – which might make them reconsider what they’re watching. “It isn’t a gentle speed – but equally it is not going to kill you,” B&B owner, Christina Simons, warned Gizmag when asked just how much pedaling it takes to get the TV running.
via gizmag

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