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The Chairless Chair, an invisible chair that you can wear
- tofof 12y agoSure playing fast and loose with "invisible", aren't we CNN?
- crazypyro 12y agoClearly, invisible only means able to be hidden by cloth.
- swombat 12y agoAwesome invention. If they can make it even less intrusive people might start wearing it in daily life. Not sure how to feel about the "Chairolution" slogan, though.
- kalendae 12y agofound a 2008 article on similar honda 'legs' http://www.wired.com/2008/11/honda-announces/ http://www.wired.com/2008/11/honda-announces/
- josephschmoe 12y agoThis sounds really useful. If it's less than 100$, I could see it selling very well outside of a convention. If a future iteration is cheap, light and can be worn below clothes, I could really see this catching on.
- fnazeeri 12y agoSitting is the new smoking. This thing is like the e-cig of chairs...
- crazypyro 12y agoI don't understand this analogy. Care to explain?
- anigbrowl 12y agoSitting too much can cause health problems (not because of the sitting itself but the lack of exercise that often accompanies sit-down jobs). It's been fashionable to say 'sitting is killing people' and suchlike in the popular media.
- crazypyro 12y agoAh, makes sense, but here I was thinking the standing desk hype from a couple years ago had long since faded.
- tveita 12y agoSpending too much time sitting down is believed to increase mortality even if you exercise regularly. E.g. http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/too-much-sitting-linked-to-an-early-death-201401297004 http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/too-much-sitting-linked-t...: “Even if you are doing the recommended amount of moderate to vigorous exercise, you will still have a higher risk of mortality if you’re spending too many hours sitting,” says Dr. JoAnn Manson, one of the study’s authors, and chief of preventive medicine at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
- fidz 12y agoWhat is "too much"? So what should we do? In school, we studied in class by sitting on the school chair. That habit continue in campus. Also, some worker are forced to do their job by sitting (e.g. taxi driver, pilot). Btw, The article said that 8+ hours and it applies to woman.
- pedalpete 12y agoSitting for long hours is 'claimed' to be bad for your health. Not that I am disputing the claim, I actually agree and have gone back and forth between standing desk and sitting desk. I say 'claimed' because I think more research is still required. Standing all day can be quite fatiguing as well.
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- jasonkester 12y agoA few hundred years late, and a bit on the expensive side compared to its competition: https://www.google.com/search?q=strap+on+milking+stool&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=strap+on+milking+stool&tbm=i... I built one of these for backpacking trips for a little less than $5 for a wooden disk, a couple plumbing bits and a clip belt. Silly looking when you're walking around with it, but infinitely better than sitting on a wet log next to the campfire.
- maxharris 12y agoThe "strap-on milking stool" is not the same thing at all. The chairless chair supports in a range of positions, from standing to sitting. Also, having to balance on two axes with the milking stool is much harder than with the chairless chair, which only requires you to balance on axis.
- rosser 12y agoIt may be more difficult, but it's probably better for you. Before I went full-time standing desk, I sat on an exercise ball all day for years, and my core strength and sense of balance reflect that.
- wdewind 12y agoI hear this a lot. Unfortunately the science does not support the idea that sitting on a ball all day will significantly strengthen your core, but it may habitually force you into a better posture (or it may not - be careful). Functionally you'd have the same effect from sitting on a padded stool without a back.
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- ajcarpy2005 12y agoI'm not familiar with the studies you refer to (and you don't explicitly refer to them so I can't check them) but just thought I'd note that core 'strength' could mean either muscular development or neural development of the control of those muscles.
- anigbrowl 12y agoI expected the worst from the headline but this is actually pretty neat. Seems like it could improve safety as well in production environments where workbenches or sit stools could present a trip hazard (eg if you're manhandling large objects that obstruct your view of the ground).
- stang 12y agoInvisible chairs have been around for a long long time: http://i.imgur.com/tIIBKCY.jpg http://i.imgur.com/tIIBKCY.jpg
- socceroos 12y agoYou are correct sir. And as an added benefit, it keeps you nice and limber.
- wuliwong 12y agoMy buddy has been pitching the idea of "chair pants" to me for a decade at least. Glad to see someone finally executed on this. :)
- rsl7 12y agoNow we just need those keyboard pants. you know, with half a keyboard on each thigh.
- skeoh 12y agoKeyboard pants exist! http://www.nieuweheren.com/products/beauty-and-the-geek/ http://www.nieuweheren.com/products/beauty-and-the-geek/
- zheshishei 12y agoIt's too bad they didn't split up the keyboard. Putting your fingers on the home keys looks like it would basically put your right hand over your crotch.
- rsl7 12y agoI had one of those old split Apple ergo keyboards back in the day and when trying to use it on my lap one day this occurred to me but I thought it too ridiculous. Also there were no wireless keyboards that weren't terrible. But hey, you know with the right cargo style pants you could just conceal the halves and...
- wuliwong 12y agohahahaha, awesome!
- iovar 12y agoIt looks really uncomfortable to me. Straps holding it in place, only two pads beneath your butt and no back support. Maybe in a two minute demonstration it's ok, but wear it all day and I bet it will feel like a jail. As for the assembly worker video example, it doesn't seem like a well-thought use case. Why not use a stool? Cheaper and might have some back support. Also, off the top of my head: What happens if you forget and lean backwards, even a bit ? How much time does it take to put it on and take it off? How easy is it to put it on in a slightly incorrect manner and twist and break your leg?
- Guvante 12y ago> Why not use a stool? Cheaper and might have some back support. Look at what the guy is doing. A stool will probably only cover 30% (if that) of his work. > What happens if you forget and lean backwards, even a bit ? What happens if you are on a stool without a back and lean backwards? > How much time does it take to put it on and take it off? It sounds like you only put it on once per day and just leave it on disabled without significantly impacting your movement.
- snowwrestler 12y agoIf you lean back on a stool you will kick your legs out to cancel the momentum. It's an unconscious reflex. Can't do that if your legs are strapped down though.
- drcode 12y agoIt's gotta suck or be vaporware, given that no single video exists on the entirety of the internet of the device in action... only cheesy renderings and stills.
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- wehadfun 12y agoseems like it would hurt.
- ChuckMcM 12y agoInteresting concept. I used to carry a 'nada chair'[1] in my backpack when hiking, I suspect this is much heavier though. I could totally see it as a huge win for folks who had to stand while customers were around (think the guy selling food from a cart on the street). If you motorized it so that it helped older people stand up then it could be a double win for them. [1] http://www.gingerbreadshows.com/nadachair/ http://www.gingerbreadshows.com/nadachair/
- mcguire 12y agoAlso found at: http://www.nadachair.com/ http://www.nadachair.com/ Reasonably comfortable, too.
- bane 12y agoThis appears to be something that's solved with the Asian Squat. It's not fashionable in the West to do this so we don't build up the right flexibility and tendon strength to do it comfortably. But if you can train yourself to do it, you can do it for hours. It's basically human's default "sitting" position. http://www.mykoreanhusband.com/asian-squatting/ http://www.mykoreanhusband.com/asian-squatting/
- atwebb 12y agoThat doesn't look as good for production line work where you'll need to be working on something a few feet off the ground and doesn't have nearly the amount of positions or support. It's definitely a lot cheaper though.
- yareally 12y agoLooks very similar to the position a catcher in baseball would take.
- aabajian 12y agoCrossfit emphasizes keeping your feet flat, butt down, and back straight while squatting. After a few months of it, you can squat like this for hours.
- skeletonjelly 12y agoBack squat in general yeah.
- ohitsdom 12y agoCompletely different from the use case shown in the video. Looks like the chairless chair works at many angles.
- Widdershin 12y agoI gained this skill thanks to a high school production in which I played a gargoyle-esque character, who spent a lot of time squatting on rocks.
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- mivanov 12y agoThe name reminds me of this SNL sketch: https://screen.yahoo.com/art-dealers-susan-greg-meet-000000810.html https://screen.yahoo.com/art-dealers-susan-greg-meet-0000008...
- ScotterC 12y agoGuessing that a lot of people are going to read the name as no-one.
- allochthon 12y agoA tiny step closer to mass-market robotic exoskeletons.
- trhway 12y agoLast slide suggests that RyanAir would love it.
- jonknee 12y agoWe've come full circle--from a standing job to a desk job to a standing desk job to a standing job where you can sit on your pants.
- reddog 12y agoThis would perfect with my standing desk!
- EGreg 12y agoI remember when I was singing in the Juilliard pre college chorus as a kid, we had to stabd for hours on end in a concert. I wanted to make pants that go above the knees and lock into place, so they support me standing. So I wanted to build a low tech version of this when I was a kid :)
- haversine 12y agoI bet pregnant women would like a version of this which supported their body weight sporadically throughout the day, especially in the late third trimester. Hell, I want one to help me do the dishes. There's somewhere a stool wouldn't make much sense.
- colordrops 12y agoThis seems to be a stepping stone to widespread fully powered exoskeletons. I could imagine the next version of this supporting lifting capability.
- 2810 12y agoI think it can be even more invisible.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkmkGFHTjRg
- m-app 12y agoThese guys are definitely streets behind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxzypwdDdo8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxzypwdDdo8
- Shivetya 12y agoQuestion, if standing desks are so great then why is standing at work considered bad? Only reason I can come up with is that with the desk you can set its height