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If you eyed up the flexible spine of the Herman Miller Setu earlier this week and thought “nice, but I’d like more rotational combination of axial forwards, backwards and sideways movements” then you’re obviously bizarrely well-read on ergonomic seating and probably already know what we’re about to say.  If, however, you know little about pivotal sections but would just like to sit for a few hours without ending up stiff, then Wilkhahn’s ON chair may be the answer.  Unlike regular task chairs, which mainly permit forward/backward movement, ON has an artificial hip-joint with “two swing plates that are just as supple as thighs”.

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Like any geek who spends more time on their hiney than in sunlight, we’ve a soft spot for high-priced ergonomic furniture, and when it comes to such things the inescapable name is Herman Miller.  Father of the classic Aeron and the bizarrely-beehive-like Embody, they also have more affordable options such as the Setu.  Nearly half the price of an Aeron, it’s billed (almost) as Herman Miller’s sop to the masses, and Core77 have not only reviewed it but caught up with the team responsible for its manufacture.

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It’s hard to find a single screengrab to illustrate this great video of craftsman Brian Grabski’s work-in-progress furniture: that’s because it hides a fiendishly clever mechanism by which you can open a secret drawer.  The hand-crafted chest-of-drawers demands you pull open each of the visible drawers, before a hidden control springs out and allows you to trigger the secret compartment built into what looks like a normal molding.

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As someone in the market for a new desk chair, I’m now hopelessly in love with these Motoart seats.  Reclaimed from authentic, Vietnam-era fighter jets and bombers, the ejector seats are freshly padded, newly upholstered and given aluminum bases with double-wheel casters.

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We’re told that water and electronics don’t mix, but word obviously hasn’t made it to iHouse.  The company has been demonstrating their SmartFaucet, a touchscreen-enabled tap that also includes a camera for face-recognition.  If you’ve ever wanted to check your email and calendar from your bathroom sink, here’s the faucet for you.

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In an ideal world, this would be a jet-propelled butt-cradle.  However it’s not, it’s actually a combination chair and music system by designer Gianni Pedone, part of the Morfonauta collection going on show at Milan Design Week 2009.

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DIY Shopping Cart Go-Cart

By Chris Davies on Friday, Jan 30th 2009 No Comments

It’s almost the weekend, which means only one thing: a desperate race to find an all-consuming project lest one be found for you by your nearest-and-dearest.  You could do a lot worse than put together a Shopping Cart Go-Cart, the entertaining end-result of MAKE’s shopping cart chair tutorial.

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As multifunctional furniture goes, designer Michiel van de Kley’s intent with Globus – to create a swivel chair and desk when open, and something that “evokes curiosity” when closed – certainly isn’t in keeping with the must-do-everything convergence ethos.  However we’ll forgive it because it’s so darned lovely.  A moulded plastic globe with a cast aluminum base on casters, the portable workstation automatically locks its wheels when opened, revealing a swivel chair and height-adjustable desk.

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version3In an effort to prevent everyone from leaving their products back in the 90’s, Sonic Chair has added a 20-inch “touchscreen” iMac to their popular Sonic Chair. The Sonic Chair Touch features the same built-in speakers and input jacks that we have grown accustom to with the addition of a computer that is quickly growing in popularity.

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GAMEROX gaming chair

By Chris Davies on Monday, Dec 15th 2008 1 Comment

If your kids aren’t interested in a Wii but you’d still like them to get some exercise benefit out of their console, the GAMEROX gaming chair might be the solution.  Resembling a couple of mudflaps, the GAMEROX chair moves in all three axis and, by making the child support themselves rather than slump, trains core stability, tones muscle and improves posture.

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Video demo of the GAMEROX gaming chair after the cut

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