This is a video demonstration of a phone cradle spotted at a restaurant in China that swings your phone and tricks it into registering those swings as steps, apparently so patrons who work for companies that offer healthy insurance discounts for walking a certain amount of steps per day (typically 10,000 — roughly 8km/5-miles, or about an hour and forty minutes of walking) can meet their quota “while dining, drinking, and smoking.” Cheating the system, I like it. My girlfriend actually signed us up for a similar program and I showed her this and she told me she’d actually prefer to get the exercise and that I should stop being so lazy. *tapes phone to dog harness, lets her loose in backyard* How we’re together I’ll never know.

Keep going for the full video in case the gif wasn’t enough for you, even though it definitely should have been.

Source: Geekologie – A Phone Swing That Tricks Your Phone Into Thinking You’re Walking