1. A wheelchair accessible treadmill, comprising:
a treadmill with a base with a movable belt on which both wheels of a wheelchair rest; and
means to secure the wheelchair to two or more linear bearings, said linear bearings adapted to longitudinally slide along the sides of the treadmill in close proximity to the edges of the movable belt.
2. The treadmill of claim 1, wherein the linear bearings slide along rods affixed to the treadmill base.
3. The treadmill of claim 1, wherein the linear bearings slide within tracks in the base along the sides of the treadmill.
4. The treadmill of claim 1, wherein the securing means comprises two or more straps, each with a first and second end, said first end adapted to be affixed to the front of the wheelchair and said second end affixed to the linear bearing.
5. The treadmill of claim 4, wherein the straps are elastic in whole or in part.
6. The treadmill of claim 4, wherein the straps are removably attached to the wheelchair at the first end, or to the linear bearing at the second end, or both.
7. The treadmill of claim 1, wherein the linear bearings only slide for a portion of the length of the belt.
8. The treadmill of claim 7, further comprising one or more rear stops, said rear stops placed so as to prevent the linear bearings from sliding back to a position that would allow the wheelchair to go off the end of the belt.
9. The treadmill of claim 8, further comprising one or more switches or sensors located at one or more of the rear stops, said switches or sensors causing the treadmill to stop or pause whenever one or more of the linear bearings reaches a rear stop.
10. The treadmill of claim 1, wherein one end of the treadmill is low to the ground to allow easy mounting by the wheelchair.
11. The treadmill of claim 1, further comprising a ramp removably affixed to or placed adjacent to one end of the treadmill to allow easy mounting by the wheelchair.
12. The treadmill of claim 1, further comprising a control panel, said control panel providing an option for a user to select wheelchair user settings or ambulatory user settings.
13. The treadmill of claim 12, wherein the wheelchair user settings have lower maximum treadmill speed and incline values than the ambulatory user settings.
14. The treadmill of claim 1, further comprising an optical sensor on the treadmill, said sensor adapted to monitor the forward and rearward motion of the wheelchair or user on the treadmill belt.
15. A wheelchair accessible treadmill, comprising:
a treadmill with a movable belt on which both wheels of a wheelchair rest; and
means to secure the wheelchair to two or more linear bearings, said linear bearings adapted to longitudinally slide along the sides of the treadmill at or near the same level as the movable belt.
16. A wheelchair accessible treadmill, comprising:
a treadmill with a movable belt on which both wheels of a wheelchair rest; and
means to secure the wheelchair to two or more linear bearings, said linear bearings adapted to longitudinally slide along the sides of the treadmill alongside the movable belt at or below the height at which the securing means is secured to the wheelchair.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A system for providing access to content or services, the system comprising:
one or more servers, each server operative to store content or service preferences for a plurality for users and to determine content or service sources for a given user based on the given user’s preferences;
one or more client software applications, each application operative to deliver content or services based on a given user’s preferences, the client software applications residing on hardware devices at customer locations;
an internal network accessible at a client location;
a content management system for receiving data describing content or services over the internal network from the client software applications and for managing such data; and
a network access device communicatively coupled to the internal network and receiving content or service for presentation of content or services to the user through the media viewer.
2. The system of claim 1 wherein the content comprises music content.
3. The system of claim 1 wherein the content comprise video content.
4. The system of claim 3 wherein the video content comprises one or more television programs.
5. The system of claim 3 wherein video content comprises movies.
6. The system of claim 1 wherein the services comprise an instant messenger service.
7. The system of claim 1 wherein the services comprise a music engine service.
8. The system of claim 1 wherein the services comprise a toolbar service.
9. The system of claim 1 wherein a given user’s preferences comprise input from the given user.
10. The system of claim 1 wherein a given user’s preferences actions by the given user.
11. The system of claim 1 wherein the content management system resides on the network access device.
12. The system of claim 1 wherein the content management system resides on an external network that is remote from the client location.
13. The method of claim 1 wherein the content or service sources are maintained by one or more third parties.
14. The method of claim 13 wherein a given third party content source is identified by the given user’s preferences.