this is like Bigend's bed in Gibson's 'Spook Country'

cybergrunt

The back could have some nice flexible ergonomic blending into where your not flat-as-a-baking-sheet backside would rest and they could come a little closer to the term "comfort" while maintaining the rad look. They might be able to get away with cushions, but I don't know if I'd be able to sit in it for very long.

whiteknight

how does it balance as you get in and out of it

and will it rock? can it seat 2? you know for like movie watching, yeah thats it

and yes, cushions!!!!

godwhacker

I wouldn't mind having something like that. Too bad it'll probably cost an arm and a leg to get one when/if they come out.

Zodiack

This chair actually represents an example of pseudo levitation. Notice the handles leading from the floor? Those are mechanical constraints. Not sure how much this chair'll be but let them come out with a fully levitating version and my interest will be sparked a bit more.

-Scott

Netscott

@AlexTheSane:

350? Christ man. Do you realize that you're fatter than Homer Simpson in the episode where he shot up to 300 lbs just to work at home and wear a mumu? That would be a wake up call for me. Sorry, don't mean to fat bash ... but yikes.

dead_red_eyes

I'm willing to bet that my 350 pound ass would make it no longer hover.

AlexTheSane

I think a "sizemodo" needs to happen with the burger-filled fat-Americans who'll be sitting in this thing... not much levitation happening - sorry!

"Up the power scotty! I'm sitting on the ground!"

"I'm giving it all she's got captain, you're just too fat!"

zarchitect

Links to pics broken :(

iridius

Kan i haz kooshun?

EBone

By the looks of it, the second you step out of it, the seat rockets upward due to the sudden lack of weight, slamming into the armrests, if not forcing them off their bases and propelling the seat into the ceiling.

I could be completely off base, but methinks this idea may not have been completely thought out.

JediMasta

"Honey? I put your laptop under that chair you love sitting in!"
"OH MY GOD NO!!!"

Jud

@92BuickLeSabre: arguably one of the least inviting looking pieces of furniture...second only to the bed of nails of course.

What it is

This thing is gonna pick up fingerprints like crazy.
I mean assprints.
Whatever, I hate it.

senorbelly

I don't see that plastic chair and my fat ass having a beautiful relationship together. Wake me when it's made of steel.

FrankenPC

Look - even the CHAIR is frowning. It's like, "Please let me down..."

So sad.

blacksamurai87

Is it really hovering with those armrests keeping it together?

ProsumeThis

Looks too medical...and executioney.

92BuickLeSabre

...unless, of course, that clear plastic happens to be a superconductor, that is.

Adam Rock

Not pacemaker safe, not cell phone safe, not HDD safe (iPod = formatted), not electronic device safe.

Nice concept, but there's a reason most people don't sit on magnets.

I once had a strong magnet (3"x1"x6") that formatted my 486's hard drive because my younger brother placed it on the case. Not sure how solid state would handle, but probably not much better.

Adam Rock

me wanteeeeeee

Sheemo44

Definitely not pacemaker safe

xacked

Definitely not pacemaker safe.

What do you think mates?

xacked

Perfect for relaxing in the waiting room inside the UFO anal probe center.

DeadWriter

how long before we see this in a movie?

txturbo930

Think very expensive and horribly uncomfortable "Sky Chair" that they try to hawk at the RenFaire that makes you uncomfortable as you wait for your drunken mate to bring you a turkey leg.

Kendra

Wait, so this is just a CAD based rendering? Ah well, its cool anyways, can't wait to see a video of the real thing! Its definitely odd to think of sitting on magnets. I could imagine larger people of stature maybe not floating so high...hehe. Also, it looks like the arm rest poles are what keep you from sliding horizontally off the magnets repulsion fields? I remember as a kid trying to push the magnets together as they bounced off away from each other. If the poles allow for someone to bounce up and down without flying off the magnet supports, it could be very relaxing, indeed.

leadster618

this thing is just plain silly, the amount of gauss would be through the roof and screw with magnetic materials. Who wants to worry about your credit card when you sit down? And on top of that even if its using NIB magnets then shit will be attracted to it and it will be very expensive. Stupid pipe dream, floating chairs will have to come another way

CrashingOut

Put a sexual spin on it and you'll sell a gazillion of them. That's it! SPIN!

CaliforniaKid

I came up with this idea a long time ago:
[nickmcglynn.blogspot.com]

nmcglynn

Those of you bitching about the armrests...how else do you expect the chair to be aligned to the base and be kept from flying to the ceiling?

AJ_Syrinx

this screams "needs a pillow" or ten

kendra68

Hey, how come my Debit card doesn't work anymore?

lionelbob

I would love that, but don't want to pay for it. And you know they're going to get a lot of suckers hook-line-and-sinker with this pseudo science:

"Hoverit also suggests that the magnetic forces can "help back, muscular problems and headaches"

photophile

I heard a rumor that in Minority Report Two, Tom Cruise uses one of these to hover to future murderers and then converts them to Scientology.

Ben

Ahhh, if you look really, really close you can see the fishing line the chair is hanging from! lol jk

Ben

@photophile: true

@AJ_Syrinx: it is actually possible to do. it won't fly to the ceiling because the force drops off too rapidly. it would balance with a different alignment of magnets, just may flip over. and stick. hard. better hope those are electromagnets.

The Lab

force increases as the cube of the distance so, yeah, it will support your fat ass.

The Lab

The first thing I thought about when i saw that picture was "Company introduces new 'Flight of the Navigator' chair line".

theespacepope

Because when I think of relaxation, I first think of hard plastic floating deck chairs.

@lionelbob: only if it gets up around 1000 gause. Though, with the amount of power to lift a person with magnets, I would assume that it probably does break that threshold.*

*I really don't know what I am talking about beyond what I learn on mythbusters, so any of you smarty pants want to argue with me, bring it on! You can't have a battle of wits with an unarmed person!

zenpoet

I might be interested if I could just install magnets in all the floors of my house, so this chair just levitated me from room to room.

jetexas

Are the magnets strong enough to keep the chair hovering with somebody in it?

majortom1981

So basically I will lay down on this, somehow throwing it off balance and flipping over and then crushing me when the magnets connect. Sign me up

thegoonie

What- no floating armrests?

DeadWriter

That thing doesn't resemble anything in the neighborhood of "comfort". What it does resemble is some 80's miami vice furniture.

and another thing WTF happened to my watch? Awww Maaaaan!

evan394

How is a flat piece of lucite bent into a 90 degree angle comfortable?
More like, loss of blood flow to your legs and premature death due to blood pooling in your ass. Upon your death, it will whisk you effortlessly to the morgue. Yes, a floating gurney everyone!

kmpu-tah

Somehow I doubt laying on a big acrylic platter, even one that's levitating, really makes you feel like you're "floating on air".

Interesting concept though.

BadMedic

Didn't Malachi Constant have one of these in his office in "Sirens of Titan" by Kurt Vonnegut? I think he ended up being a scapegoat for all the world's problems by a newly formed Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. So I think reformatting a hard drive would be the least of the worries associated with the chair given the clear hovering chair-antichrist collation.

kylebdoeden

'Alright ready to lounge in my favorite chair with my new laptop. Wait, what is this? 'Corrupt HDD', that can't be right. I'll reboot. 'Corrupt HDD'. Hmmm. I wonder if these 50lb magnets have anything to do with this? Hmmm... wonder if my iPod works....@#%@^&!(@&!(@#$&%^@!!!!!!!!!'

Their new slogan:

Official chair of SSD.

link12245

This product so reminds me of those ads you see in the back of tech magazines with the little kid sitting on an alien looking hovering machine, you know the one that the item in question looks as if it has big plates on the feet and you have to order the plans...

circuitbomb

If they decide to make a magnetic floating bed I might be tempted. As long as I provide the mattress.
Still, they better factor in all the stuff that might get ruined by the magnetism, like credit cards, cell phones, ipods, watches etc. Not wrecking those would look good in the sales pitch.

JesusDeSaad