Ha - that reminds me of the Internet Bikes we had at our gym several years ago. (forgot the exact name of them, as well as the manufacturer). It was a recumbant bike, with a computer screen and keyboard (kind of a twanky keyboard - one of those flat surface ones). This was probably in 1999-2000 now that I think about it - we didn't have a computer at home at the time. Anyways, as long as you pedaled, you could access the Internet, news, TV, etc. They were semi-popular - especially with my Jim, since we didn't have the Net at home and at the time our library had only a few terminals for the World Wide Web, it was definitely an incentive for him to get to the gym
After oh, about a year or so, the Internet Bikes disappeared from the gym and the company went out of business shortly thereafter...