The Brothers Karamazov*
That's one seriously over-enguineered piece of furniture.
A title was required so I borrowed one from Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Japan's Oki has developed an office chair that, it claims, can jump. And we thought all they were good for is spinning around and skating along on the casters. Oki's chair, curiously codenamed 'Leopard', employs what the company's boffins call a "robot leg", with the bit for your bum equivalent to the thigh. The calf, ankle …
Do you reckon if i strapped two of these bad boys to my existing legs that I could propel myself into the record books ahead of Usain Bolt in 2012?
If not at least i'll be able to be comfortable whilst watching said event.
-- Mine is the coat that give you a clip round the ear and tells you to "wise up" from time to time.
There've been TV ads around since Jesus was a lad offering "chairs that help you stand up" which seem to work in pretty much the same way. There's a general tendancy to "velour armchair that your granny would like" in the more standard product though.
I wonder what the size of the "techy office chairs for coffin-dodgers" market is?