the digital monitor display can be difficult to read in low light. However, these minor inconveniences don’t detract from the overall effectiveness of the Sportsroyals Stair Stepper for Exercises.

Before LEDs became cheap enough to be ubiquitous, flip-card displays were about the only way to get a digital clock ... attached to frames that hold a stepper motor and a Hall-effect sensor.

We love them all, of course, but the great thing about [aeropic]’s display is how quiet it is — the stepper is mostly silent, and the segments make only a gentle clunk when they flip.