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more about #chairs lankysob: So, in calling the carbon fiber heating elements "undetectable", hopefully they mean "won't jab you in the ass." Cause I could care less if I could s... more » Edward's Sisters' Hands: This chair is not nearly wide enough to be marketed in the United States. Fail. Also, it needs a larger footing to displace those 270 lbs. more » Dr. Evil Genius is eagerly anticipating the Year of the Black Rainbow: I rarely get the heat needed during the wintertime months in my apartment so the features here would be good for my MW2 marathons. I can't wait to mo... more » Shamoononon: I shave my legs.: Wow, why would you heat your butt up to 140? more » Zordon: "How could I leave this Behind?" ♪ more » Crashproof: I hate to think of what the broken, mismatched, shoddy chairs in my workplace say about our status... more » FriarNurgle: You think this would be the only logical thing to sit on after spending all that money on the "best" stereo equipment. more » jepzilla: It's not something recent. I think you'll find chairs have been status symbols for a very long time. more » bucho54: There is no way I'd want this for my listening area. I currently have a 1960's era couch that looks horrendous, was free from someone I know and kept... more » OMG! Ponies!: Seriously... I'm just digging the name of it. In fact, if I have a daughter, I might name her Ballerina Sweetspot. Scratch that... Even if I have ... more » unique172: Looking at the price, now I want to leave my job and make these full time...I wonder what holds all those rods together. #deepforest more » electricarchie: Oh really Gizmodo? I see your 374 dowel chair and raise you a 7,000 nickel couch. This guy lives down the road from my aunt's place in vermont, and I'... more » Digo: Just the thought of what would happen if something went wrong is enough to keep me very very far away from this chair. #deepforest more » Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected: For $6500 this had better come with a harem to fan me and feed me grapes. Or at the very least it should be sanded down. more » Nathan Obbards: Do you think this would go well with my skull wallpaper? Cause if it won't, I'm not getting it. [www.rockettstgeorge.co.uk] more » The Lab: For $6,5oo I'd expect it to be very precisely made and you can see even in this small, compressed jpg that the dowels aren't cut cleanly on their blun... more » Xagest: Worse urinal ever #drinkingstrawchair more » MrBangBam: If you had diarrhea... #drinkingstrawchair more » tree-fiddy: Dammit! Came in to say "Well, that kinda sucks." #drinkingstrawchair more » Hackintosh: So it's a Holy chair? #drinkingstrawchair more » -
#chairs
Heated Portable Chair Will Keep Even Big Bottoms Warm
Sometimes I just like to sit outside during this time of year and have a beer next to a firepit. It's warm enough, but I would be even more comfortable with a folding chair that has a heated seat. More » -
#furniture
Ballerina Sweetspot: A Chair Designed Specifically For Audiophiles
There is just something about chairs. Just look around the office—they are not just places to sit anymore. Chairs have become super-engineered status symbols. Now audiophiles can have their own high-tech throne. More » -
#furniture
Chair Made From 374 Dowels Will Leave Fascinating Patterns On Your Butt
Kibardin Design's "Deep Forest" armchair is made from 374 shaped and creatively-joined dowels. It's as if you plopped into a giant container of different-sized dowels that retained your shape after you left. Pretty, but pricey, at over $6,500USD. [Core77] -
#furniture
A Chair Made From 10,000 Drinking Straws
Finally, a piece of furniture that goes with your drinking straw lamp. Perhaps next time designer Scott Jarve could create a bendy straw couch so that I could mold the seat to my ass better. [Jarvie via Make] -
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Motorized La-Z-Boy On Ebay, Slight Damage From DWI-Induced Accident
Remember the guy who got a DWI after crashing his motorized La-Z-Boy? While he's serving a 180-day jail sentence, the City of Proctor, Minnesota is putting his tricked out chair onto eBay, "Hell yeah, it's fast" bumper sticker and all. More » -
#design
Soft Tofu Chair Molds to Your Softer Tofu Tush
I've never been all that enthusiastic about eating tofu. But sitting on a gigantic piece of the stuff sounds just delicious. More » -
#design
Rocking Chair Powers Its Attached OLED Lamp Just by Rocking
The Murakami chair's attached lamp is powered by kinetic energy produced from the chair's rocking back and forth—deliciously simple and elegant. Oh, and that lampshade? Not a lampshade. That's the actual OLED light source, shaped like a lampshade. More » -
#robots
Todder-Sized Robotic Chairs Help Kids With Disabilities Get Around
When a one-year-old has difficulty with movement, it impairs brain development, since researchers say babies form neural connections through exploration of their environment. How do you get around this? With a bad-ass robotic chair. More » -
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#furniture
The Spider Phoebe Workstation Owes Purple an Apology
The truth is, the Spider Phoebe chair looks downright comfortable—until its legs close upon you and your laptop is repurposed to replay its Sesame Street casting tapes...from before the accident. [Limitless Sofa via Furniture Fashion] -
#review
Task Chair Battlemodo: Herman Miller Setu vs. Steelcase Cobi
Two of the biggest names in office chairs, Herman Miller and Steelcase, both recently released a relatively affordable task chair, each with its own quirks and charms. But which should you convince your office manager to buy? More » -
#chairs
Please Take a Seat
It's comfortable. I promise. Really. OK, fine, be that way. If don't believe me, just click and see for yourself. More » -
#design
Fotel Designer Chair Transforms From Rocking to Stationary in 20 Seconds
If you're a grass-is-always-greener type, you might have trouble settling on one type of chair: Arm or rocking. This Fotel chair is actually both, and manages to look pretty slick at the same time. More » -
#chairs
Steelcase Cobi Designer Puts Your Design Skills Where Your Ass Is
The Steelcase Cobi, starting at $400, is unique in that it's a higher-end office chair that you get to customize quite a bit of how it looks—avoiding the late '90s dotcom sea of chairs that look exactly alike. More » -
#furniture
iBum Photocopying Chair: Because "The Ass Is The Window Of The Soul"
According to the designer of the iBum, "the ass is the window to the soul." I suppose that is true for the kind of person who would buy a chair with a built-in butt photocopier. More » -
#furniture
Finnish Chair Has One Priority: Your Balls
See this chair? It is designed with the comfort of your genitals in mind. Don't believe me? Just listen to a no-nonsense Finn describe its advantages over close ups of comfy, comfy balls. More » -
#design
Zune Logo Spotted In Avant Garde Furniture
I couldn't help but think this chair looks a lot like a three-dimensional butt-friendly Zune logo. And it got me thinking, what else could the Zune logo be made into? I got as far as hammock. [Dezeen] -
#officechairs
Herman Miller Setu Chair Is a Poor Man's Embody
The new Herman Miller Setu is certainly not the Herman Miller Embody. But then again, its $650 price tag is not the Embody's $1600. And for a good reason. More » -
#wtf
Canon Employees Are Forbidden to Sit Down, Walk at Normal Pace
You might think your job sucks, but at least your boss wasn't insane enough to remove all the chairs and install security so an alarm goes off if you don't walk fast enough. More » -
#chair
Chair Spells Chair
This Chair/Chair from Erik Ku disassembles easily into the word "chair", which is great if you want to teach your toddlers spacial coordination as well as the ability to spell one word. [Eric Ku via Like Cool via Craziest Gadgets] -
#space
Wing Lounge Chair - The Only NASA Certified Chair
This chair is notable in two ways. One, it's the largest single piece of bendwood used to make a chair, and two, it's the only chair tested by NASA and certified by The Space Foundation. More » -
#design
Jet Armchair Questions the Validity of La-Z-Boy Design
For thousands of years, chairs have settled for arm rests. Now the Morfojet Armchair has upped the ante by eschewing tradition and deploying jet engines for the mundane task of supporting one's arms. More » -
#racing
Elite Racer Pro Is More Fun Than Watching Vin Diesel Act
This Elite Racer Pro setup, with a 32-inch Sony Bravia, built-in gaming PC, race seat, optional Vuzix Eye-Goggles and built-in audio and vibration effects looks much more entertaining than the latest Vin Diesel vehicle. More » -
#restraint
Houdini Chairs Ensure Your Guests Will Stay for Dessert
That is, unless they are Houdini incarnate. Or maybe David Blaine. These are made by designers CTRLZAK and will debut at an Italian design show next month. [Core 77] -
#concepts
The Silent Farter Chair Has a Crude Sense of Humor
Finally, a chair designed to amplify one's farts. (Yes, the name is ironic.) More » -
#furniture
Tank Chair Prefers Backyard Lounging to International Destruction
When you think Tank Chair, you might consider something more imposing than what's presented here. But then you realize it's inspiration does indeed come from the treads of a military tank. More » -
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Yet Another Completely Mundane Rocking Chair
The Ruby Rocking Chair is somehow slightly different than every other rocking chair we've seen ever, but we can't quite put our finger on it... More » -
#manvsmachine
Boy Killed Anally When Office Chair Explodes
Well, stories don't get much worse than this. A 14-year-old boy in China was killed when his chair exploded, sending chunks of metal into his rectum. The bleeding this caused killed him. More » -
#toyfair2009
Important Chairs From the World of Design, Shrunken For Six Bucks
Out of all the miniatures at Toy Fair, these famous chairs by Eames and many other bigtime designers are the ones I want most. [Toy Fair 2009] More »
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#concepts
In Case of Emergency, This Guest Chair Pops Out Like a Lifeboat
The Pack Chair is a concept (with five working prototypes in development) by designer François Azambourg. Stored rolled like a tiny sleeping bag, the chair inflates instantly when needed. More » -
#furniture
Extreme Ergonomic Seating for 'Him' and 'Her' (NSFW)
To most of us, comfort is sitting on a soft cushion.To others, comfort is sitting on a sheet of molded plastic that rides up one's butt crack. More » -
#tgif
10 of the World's Most Comfortable Office Chairs
With the holidays behind us, it is time to buckle down and get some work done in 2009. With these chairs, you might actually enjoy sitting in front of the computer all day.
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#furniture
Relaxation Chair: Back Bliss Machined from Aluminum
So you got a job, moved into your own place, picked up an IKEA Poang and then felt pretty good about life. Things were working out alright! Then you saw the Frederic Sofia Relaxation Chair... -
#chairs
GAMEROX Chair Rocks Gamer Kids Into Shape
In an attempt to combat child obesity while obese children combat each other, the GAMEROX chair strengthens your child's midsection(s) and improve their posture while they play video games. More » -
#robots
Six-Legged Robot Chair Makes a Statement in the Office
These days, you've gotta do everything you can to stand out at the office so you don't get laid off. Like tromp around in a terrifying, six-legged robo-chair. -
#furniture
Iconic Ovalia Egg Chair Reissued With Tech Upgrades
You may not know it by name, but the classic Ovalia Egg Chair probably streamed into your consciousness via the background of some MTV hipster video or the seating at a really, really cool grandma's house. (Actually, we're sure that you spotted an Ovalia chair in the shot after the jump, at minimum.) Now the Ovalia Egg Chair is getting reissued with the support of JBL. More » -
#review
Herman Miller Embody Review: The Best Chair We've Ever Sat On
As anyone who's worked in an office would know, Herman Miller's Aeron is the chair to have at your desk for both comfort and status. As a guy who's worked at his share of Silicon Valley startups the net boom and bust, I've only had the privilege of stealing Aerons from coworkers when they weren't looking; never actually being actually senior enough to sit on one full time. Things are different now, my fellow prisoners, with Herman Miller's latest creation, the Embody. Its $1600 body was designed by Bill Stumpf, who was also responsible for—among other projects—its famous predecessor, the Aeron. It's no surprise that the Embody feels very good. More » -
#chairs
British Designer Makes Insane Looking Chairs Out of Hard-To-Recycle Trash
British designer Osian Batyka-Williams has gone on a recycling bent, turning unwanted, but hard to reuse objects into unique, if not particularly comfortable looking chair designs. For instance, his cutlery chair draws attention to the fact that some restaurants change their cutlery as often as every nine months, which is interesting, but all I can think about is how it'll put a fork in my butt when I try to spoon. Check out some of his other chair ideas. [Toxel] More » -
#furniture
Chair Burns Calories For You (Through Torture)
The Hobart I-Cool seat concept has your best interests at heart. It wants you to lose weight but knows that you shouldn't have to leave your chair to do so. Using a "proprietary" system for "temperature regulation," users are said to shed pounds while just sitting there in a fashionable "micro environment." But to us, the seat eerily resembles a George Foreman Grill. More » -
#furniture
Modular Kar Chairs Reward the Skinny-Butted
For those who enjoy pizza by the slice, these Kar chairs operate in a similar fashion. Each piece is ordered individually to add a layer of thickness to the seat until your desired dimensions are met, combined until you build a chair (small), loveseat (medium) or football bench (X Large - future gastric bypass). Also of note, those who enjoy numerous pizza slices will find a corresponding satisfaction sitting in the seats with more slices. Each Kar module runs $150, so plan on eating in for a while to afford an entire chair. [Opulent Items via bltd] -
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Chair Made from Torpedo-Lifting Jaws from a Nuclear Sub Will Cradle Your Explosive Parts
I can't say that the Matrix Unplugged Chair looks very comfortable, but it certainly does look badass. That's because it's made from the torpedo-lifting jaws of a nuclear submarine. That's right: the parts that used to handle delicate explosive torpedoes will now be handling your delicate ass. More »
