10,000 steps at your desk.
- Quiet.33 to 45 dB, quiet enough to take a call on.
Every electric pad I tried got loud, then broke. So I built something different.
I went through five of them. I bought the cheap ones and then the expensive ones, and every one of them either got loud and died, or was so big it took over the room. The good manual ones cost thousands and looked like gym equipment. I did not want that next to my desk, in a flat with my kids in it.
So I built the Office Walker. There is no motor in it, so there is nothing in there that can burn out. The frame is wood and steel on Italian steel bearings, and I designed it to look like furniture you would keep, not a gadget you hide. If a part ever wears out, we send you the part and you fit it yourself in about 10 minutes.
I built it to be repaired and kept for years, not replaced. That was the whole point.
Quiet enough to take a call on it. The person on the other end will not know.
Nothing to plug in and no standby draw. The energy is your calories.
Every part swaps out in about 10 minutes. Tools and parts provided.
Furniture weight on front wheels. Rolls into place and stores upright against the wall. Ships free, as a standard parcel.
It moves when you move, and stops the moment you do.
Built by hand in Berlin, one batch at a time
Parts come from EU suppliers, and a small team assembles every Walker at our Berlin workshop. We test each one on our rigs before it is packed, so problems get caught here instead of at your desk.
The frame
Wood and steel, tested to carry 150 kg. It looks like furniture because that is what I designed it to be.
The bearings
Italian steel, industrial standard. This is the part cheap pads skimp on.
The surface
Soft touch covers on the slats. You can wash them, and if one wears out we send you a new one.
The testing
Two rigs run constantly, one here and one in Nuremberg. Over 3,000 km logged so far with no visible wear.
Pick the one that suits your room
The main specs
What you get instead of the cheap one on Amazon
- A hum sitting under your voice on every call
- It gets louder as the motor wears
- A sealed shell you are not meant to open
- Spare parts rarely sold on their own
- Mostly does not fold, so it lives on the floor
- 33 to 45 dB, so you can take the call
- 0 watts, because your legs move it
- Wood and steel on Italian steel bearings
- 5 year guarantee, spares stocked for 10 years
- Opens with two bolts, with a video guide for every repair
The questions I get asked most
No, and most people expect the opposite. Nothing sets a pace for you. Push off and the belt follows, ease off and it slows, stop and it stops with you. It feels odd for a day or two and then you forget about it.
It is what most people search for, yes, but it is the manual kind. There is no motor in it. The belt moves because you do, and that is exactly why it is quiet, draws nothing and lasts. I call it a walking pad.
Not perfectly on day one, and I am not going to pretend otherwise. It takes a day or two. Wrist rests help more than anything else. After that you are back to your usual speed, and because it only moves when you do, you can stop dead for the fiddly bits and start again without touching anything.
Most standing desks work. It adds 14 cm under your feet, so raise yours to a comfortable standing height and check it can go 14 cm higher than that. I am 183 cm, I stand at 107 cm, and I walk at 121 cm. If you are buying a desk anyway, a four legged frame wobbles less at walking height than a two legged one.
33 to 45 dB in daily use, depending on how fast you walk. In practice you can take a call and the person on the other end will not know. There is no motor, so there is no hum that gets worse over the years. What you hear is your own footsteps.
Faster than you probably will. We have tested it well above 3 km/h and nothing happens to it. The limit is you, not the Walker: past about 3 km/h, actually working and concentrating gets hard.
There is no daily limit, use it as long as you like. Our test unit has logged over 3,000 km with no visible wear, and a second rig presses 150 kg onto the deck for over 100,000 cycles. Maximum user weight is 150 kg, tested.
You replace the part, not the pad. It opens with ordinary tools, we send you the part, and there is a video guide for every repair. Inside the warranty, if the wear is not your fault, the part is free. Spares are stocked for 10 years.
It weighs 25 kg and rolls on front wheels. Stand it upright against a wall, put it on its side, or slide it under a bed with 21 cm of clearance. Most people leave it out though, because it looks like furniture.
Because it is built to a different plan. More than a year of prototypes, built by hand in Berlin, and a wood and steel frame instead of a sealed plastic case around a motor. A cheap pad is priced to be replaced. This one is priced to be repaired, with spares stocked for 10 years.
Every part comes off, and we send you the one that wore out.
You fit it yourself in about 10 minutes, with the tools that came in the box and a video guide for the job. Spare parts stay on the shelf for 10 years. This was designed to be repaired rather than replaced, and that is the whole point of it.
Get your name down for one.
Backers get theirs first. After that the waitlist orders, below the price the store will charge once it opens to everyone. Tens of thousands of people are already on it, so it is worth putting your name down now.