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If you sit in a chair for 14 hours a day like the inventor of this chair does you will develop life threatening blood clots in your legs. It doesn't matter how many ultra marathons you run the other ten hours a day. Your heart can't actually pump the blood out of your legs so your body is designed to have muscle activity in the legs do the work. If you sit for 8 hours you are at serious risk for blood clots (this is why doctors tell you to get up and walk around on a coast-to-coast or trans Atlantic or trans Pacific flight).

And yes, I'm a guy in otherwise great shape who was rushed to the ER with a potentially life threatening blood clot caused by sitting at my laptop in coffee shops for 8 hours a day coding. All that hyper attention and focus capability may be great for coding or gaming but it's a serious risk factor in other ways. The best solution is drink lots of water (so you feel the need to get up) or get a Fitbit and pay attention when it tells you you haven't walked around recently.

So what you're saying is the chair needs a leg device the periodically squeezes your legs a little to pump out those clots. Gotcha.

Would some sort of g-suit help?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-suit

I've often wondered the same but not found any studies answering the question.

Nah dude, amputate and prosthetic. There's no excuse for people to doing marathons on million year old tech when you can be running on carbon fiber springs

I suddenly feel much better about my ADHD making it impossible for me to sit still for longer than maybe 90 minutes at work.

How much, and how often, do you need to walk around to reduce the risk of this? Is going to the bathroom every hour or two enough?

My understanding is that's fine. Fitbit encourages you to walk 250 steps every hour (which is a default goal so likely somewhat more than most people do every hour or it wouldn't be a good default goal)

Maybe one could make a cross-breed with something like this armchair-cyclette:

https://www.technogym.com/it/recline-excite-forma.html

one could additionally power the monitor from batteries recharged by a generator connected to the pedals.

My inability to focus without a lunchtime walk might be good for me. I’m probably the most frequent coffee breaker too. Usually my body feels too awkward and I have to move.

It needs driven wheels. Programmer spaces could be large empty warehouses, these mobile workstations gliding across the open space. If you needed to collaborate you could drive over to colleagues, be latched together for pair programming, able to move as a unit. Team meetings could have a flocking function to literally bring everyone together. Team leaders could have an override summon for those recalcitrants who are tardy attending the “stand-up”. There could be coffee-maker modules bolted on too, like saddle bags. ...jk

Fits right into the Wall-E universe!

Just make it self driving and roadworthy, with a hardened shell to double as a residence and 180 degree tilt to go flat as a bed, and now you can live in SF rent free and never leave the chair.

Mildly intriguing. My personal cavils would be:

-No desk space and only token storage space. If one needs to access books/paper documents, have additional computers & hardware (yes, we exist), or just needs a place to sketch or write something, this doesn't seem very practical.

-16:10 monitors are not mentioned in the monitor mount configuration section; hopefully that's just an oversight, not an actual limitation.

-Monitor distance is non-adjustable, an issue for older developers or those with vision problems

-No headrest; a serious omission for a reclining seat, particularly at that price point.

-How on earth does one get out of this thing when the power goes out?

> -How on earth does one get out of this thing when the power goes out?

I guess they figure if you're the type of person to drop $3600 on this, you'd also have sufficient battery backup.

On a more serious note, I assume the "button" is just a mechanical latch to prevent it from opening during use. I'm just speculating, so I'm interested in knowing the answer to this question myself.

I have a hard time believing this is a serious product, the number associated with this, is someone's person cellphone.

and never in all the years have I been coding have I thought, you know if I was just pitched at 140 degrees, my life would be so much easier.

but hey, if someone has 3600 bucks to throw away on an awkward "nerd throne" this is the place to pitch it right?

> "but hey, if someone has 3600 bucks to throw away on an awkward "nerd throne" this is the place to pitch it right?"

I blinked at the price as well but it's actually not that bad; ergonomic office furniture is surprisingly expensive. An Aeron with a third party headrest plus a hand-crank height adjustable desk is about $2000 already.

I suppose it boils down to need, I find that I can be just as happy with a standard height desk, and a $200~ range chair from amazon, as I was with the Aeron and fancy desk.

At a price point difference of nearly $1700, I know that my spartan needs aren't perhaps typical, but I just find all the fancy trapping a waste, once I find a functional, durable, reliable, and replicable set up, I tend to stick with it.

What works for me, cost about $400 every 3-5 years depending.

The idea of spending 14 hours a day in a chair reminded me of a particular Homer Simpson invention:

https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Lazy_Man_Toilet_Seat

> I spend 14 hours in a chair

That is unhealthy to spend 14 hours in a chair. If someone finds themselves spending 14 hours in a hair unnecessarily (i.e. they can't walk) then they should probably re-eavaluate their life.

I’m picturing a room full of these in the next season of “Silicon Valley”...

Given the styling I think the subtitle should be "Ultimate workstation for male programmers" because really, how many women do you know who would look at that and say "oh I definitely want to sit in something that looks like that!"

https://preview.redd.it/l0vx7t2vkk5z.jpg?width=960&crop=smar...

Reminds me of the movie Grandma's Boy:

https://goo.gl/images/mk6nvU

It would help if this company posted a pic with someone actually sitting in it/ using it.

You need to change position every couple of hours max to avoid RSI, it's critical for me that desktop can change from sit to stand position Otherwise nice idea, hope they keep improving

Apparently the competition is on: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Hwkbj26BQxM

Intriguing, but I think I would fall asleep in it, when reclined. It looks just too comfortable.

Is this for PHP programmers? Laravel?

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