While the machines, staff, and members at Nutley's PureGym are all a pleasure, you will not find any worse music in the town of Nutley.

You are also assaulted with television screens everywhere showing dancing prostitutes, gang bangers, and other degenerates

Avoid PureGym's horrible music

This stream was initially created to also demonstrate a point.

I believe any gym should have a goal of getting folks to remove their headphones or earbuds. This way when two people pass each other at the gym they can say "hi" and exchange a few words easily. When one or both of the people has headphones or earbuds in they have to stop their music and remove their listening devices from their ears so as to talk to others in the gym. This discourages people from talking to each other at the gym.

I would submit that this creates a barrier to people easily talking to each other and, I believe the more people are able to talk to each other in the gym, the more likely they are to become friends. The more people at the gym are friends with each other, the more they can encourage each other. I believe this would also encourage people to go to the gym more, because when you go to the gym in this manner, you're not just working out, you're also meeting and hanging out with your friends.

Therefore, I believe every gym should have music that is mostly instrumental, in the background, and most importantly is not so bad that people wear headphones or earbuds to listen to their own music to avoid the music coming out of the speakers. Granted, some or many will want to listen to their own music, but I believe there is a significant number of people at the gym that listen to music through their headphones or earbuds only because the music coming out of the speakers at the gym is offensive to them or so horrible they just cannot stand it.

I would go further. I would say that every gym should have some kind of process to determine how successful they are at getting people to remove their headphones. There should be a measurable metric that gym management looks at each month that allows them to tell if people are removing their headphones. Without this metric, it will be impossible for a gym to determine if their goal of having people removed their headphones or earbuds is successful or not.

Many gyms now have cameras virtually everywhere. I would submit that one process for the metric I mentioned above would be to use the video from those cameras to identify the number of people with headphones earbuds or neither programatically. Once this count can be done changes in the count overtime can be measured. That is just one method that comes to mind. But, without a method and a metric it will be impossible for a gym to determine if they are succeeding or not.

•     •     •

We don't currently have a solution for the screens of dancing prostitutes, gang bangers, and other degenerates, but we are working on it.

Casper™ Cloaking Technology by Designtex has a film you can put on glass that believe it or not, when you look at a TV makes it look like the TV is off.

We have written them, got samples, and played around, attaching them to safety glasses. We brought them to the gym and used them while on the stationary bike and believe it or not.... it works. So, in theory, someone could make a set of glasses with that, which would allow you to walk around in the real world and when you looked at any television screen or computer screen, you would not see any dancing prostitutes, or anything actually.

Personally, my manual dexterity is very poor. So, the idea of me making this, even just one for myself is pretty much out of the question.

And let's face it, there is a multi billion dollar industry pouring money into forcing you to look at screens. So the idea of glasses like these becoming popular or readily available is probably not on the horizon. It's probably as likely as a device that should've been invented 50 years ago that would adjust the volume of your TV automatically anytime a commercial came on to either reduce the volume or completely mute it until the show came back on having been made available.

It's an easily built device electronically, but, I would submit that if any company made such a device, the CEO of the company would be found murdered. Society wants to force you to watch television and screens, and it will be a fight for anyone that wants to go against this trend. But... I can dream can't I?