In my mind relaxing means being on a white sanded beach or at home plunked down in front of the TV. But if you’re always on the go and happen to have a few minions to help you drag your crap around, plus can’t find a better way to unwind than drowning your sorrows at the hotel bar, then you might want to take a look at the Pure Lady portable massage chair.
It’s finished in synthetic leather and folds up into a neat little cube for easy storage or travel. And don’t let this thing’s diminutive size fool you. The Pure Lady can massage the whole body including the calves, feet, back and waist – well, almost the whole body.
No word on price, but there’s a product page, so it’s gotta exist some where.
Although it might be a bit far from reality the Murakami Chair is one slick design that has my head nodding with agreement. The attached OLED lamp, which requires less energy than a standard light bulb to operate, draws energy from an on board battery pack that is powered by the kinetic energy found in the chair’s rocking movement. Oh, and that lamp shade you see; that’s the actual lamp. …Continue reading: OLED Lamp Powered By The Movement Of A Rocking Chair
This is a seemingly obscure bit of gaming news that I found whilst cruising the wilds of Canadian blogging. It’s a recurring theme around several items about the Taco Bell Fill Up On Game Gear contest which offered several prizes, including that behemoth you see before you.
That thing is the ten thousand dollar (Canadian, I presume, so here in the States it’s roughly eighty five hundred, though that changes almost by the minute) Emperor 1510 gaming chair. I don’t know what kind of weird gaming the Canadians are up to up there but it’s clear, based on the Emperor 1510, that they’re about to develop a hive-mind and completely become the Borg.
Considering how many times the word “redonkulous” came up in describing this monster, you’d be amazed what it comes equipped with: three flat-screen monitors wrap around the user, and a full surround-sound system is also included.
But this isn’t even the top of the line. Dark rumors persist about a version that includes its own air conditioning and costs fully forty grand.
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By now we’ve all heard about the benefit to keeping a light or two on in the house when you’re away so as to discourage burglars. But the problem with this is that, one, you leave a light burning nonstop and you boost your power bill, and two, the burglars may eventually figure out that it’s the same light in your house that’s always on. Thus, some turn to timers to make their lights switch on and off at prearragned times, and one of the best is the Emerson Digital SmartSet Lamp Control Security Timer.
This remote will actually allow you to PROGRAM your lamps to come on at different times of day, much like how you would if you were home personally. You don’t turn your lamp on promptly at eight PM every night–some nights you’re five minutes late, or ten minutes early, or an hour late. The Emerson will actually allow you to simulate that, being programmable to turn devices on and off at certain times.
You can even set the device to “random” operation and the preprogrammed times will be varied by as much as an hour and fifteen minutes either way.
I have to admit, if I did more traveling, I might well want a device like this in my house, trying to fool burglars into believing I’m home, even when I’m not.
This may well be a truly pompous pronouncement, but the worst of it is that this sheer pomposity is in the NAME of the product. From Hammacher Schlemmer, it’s called the Only Whole Body Massage Chair, and it is, pretty much, what it says on the box. It is a full body massage chair that will deliver, at the press of various buttons, Shiatsu, penetrating kneading, and gentle traction to over twelve hundred square inches of your body. It also includes twenty two inflating air cells in JUST the armrests for massage, and optical sensors that the chair will actually use to build a complete program of massage around your body.
Not bad for a $6,000, huh?
Now, seriously, while this definitely sounds like it delivers in every particular, I can’t help but find something truly ego maniacal about TITLING your product Only Whole Body Massage Chair. It’s like buying, for example, Only Good Showerhead In The Store, or maybe Every Other Pancake Mix Tastes Like Rat Poison.
But when you deliver as well as this seems to, maybe you’ve got a right to a bit of egomania.
Big news out of the CEDIA Awards down in Atlanta–the D-Box GPH-120 just took home a big win as their EXCITE award winner for the home theatre division.
Just in case you’re not familiar with a D-Box GPH-120, they’re motion controllers. They’ve actually been installed in some movie theatres, like those inside the Mall of America, and are available for home purchase at various home theatre stores throughout the country.
What these things do is they essentially provide movement for your home theatre chair in tune with the action on the screen. If you’re watching Top Gun, and Maverick jinks right to dodge a Soviet MiG, you’ll jink right too. Rather, your chair will. This is actually a pretty sweet development in gadget tech, and the EXCITE award probably went to the right guys.
September 8th, 2009 7:48 PM | by Christen da Costa
When I was ‘corporate’, to combat long and drawn out meetings bosses would implement the ’standing meeting’. In short, employees were required to physically stand during the meeting which in turn would force them to get down to brass tacks.
The TimeTable incorporates a similar philosophy, but instead of requiring workers to stand a set of LED lights built-in to the translucent surface of the table countdown indicating how much time is left for them to present. Once the total meeting time has transpired a record voice is played to let them know their time has expired.
The TimeTable is currently a design only, but they’ve got a working prototype up and running at the “The Cole” building at Wieden and Kennedy London.
Bear with me for a sec and think Cookie Monster. Yeah, this Cookie Monster: yum, yum, yum, yum, yum.
The shark bean bag chair is both brilliant and scary. And how fitting that an Australian retailer should carry it. You know, because they surf a lot and from my understanding they have their more than fair share of run ins with the razor sharp toothed fishies.
It’s $19.95 AU, and you’ll need to bring your own beans. 200 litres worth to fill its hungry stomach, otherwise you’ll be sitting on a polyester shark skin.
Break out the chocolate, marshmallows and graham crackers! The ‘Fire’ coffee table features a mini fireplace on its surface, which comes in your choice of an ebony high gloss, colored or natural stone finish. It burns some sort of bio-ethanol, which I can only assume is free of smoke and other carcinogens since it will be at the center of your living room. Pricing starts at about $4,300.
Step stools are practical and all, but a complement to your kitchen’s stainless steel appliances and rain forest safe wood finish, I think not. The Franklin Chair looks and functions like an everyday chair, but with a quick flip of its top half and you’ve got a sturdy and completely functional step ladder. It’s available in white, black or oak for $149.99.
