Are you ready to get fit while surfing the net? Here’s the webcycle for internet savvy. It’s a gym bicycle where the speed of pedaling determines the speed of the internet. The internet goes faster as the pedaling too. The software increases the bandwidth for faster surfing.

There are foil sensors on the bike that are connected to the pedals and are interfaced with an Arduino. A laptop running Ubuntu receives the number of cycles being read by the Arduino. The limiting of bandwidth is lesser when one pedals faster.

The webcycle has been featured in Popular Science Magazine and at MakerFaire UK 2010. So better to give it a try.