Exercise

This screen replaces the dumbbells and the trainer

Almost two decades into a Silicon Valley career, Aly Orady quit his job at age 35 after developing health problems that included Type 2 diabetes and sleep apnea. “I was the guy who had the gym membership but went sporadically,” he says.

Orady started working out religiously and over the next couple of years lost 70 pounds. But he worried about keeping the weight offwhen he returned to work. “I remember sitting at the gym at 6 a.m. thinking, How the heck am I going to balance a full-time job, family, another startup, and still come here every day?” In 2015 he began prototyping a way to digitize those racks of free weights and turn metal into pixels. Same pain, same gain, from the comfort of your living room.