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OSIM uSpace Full Body Massage Chair Balances Your Body, Bank Account
Posted by Jesus Diaz at 4:15 AM on September 6, 2008
At US$6,000, this OSIM uSpace full body massage chair better do what it says in addition to just looking all sci-fi and space Pac-Manish. According to the manufacturer, the chair fixes you using mood lighting, massage, and music. They say the uSpace has three different modes: "revitalize", "relax" or "balance" you.
They explain that using specific lighting colours, with something called "synchronised" music will activate certain areas of your brain, putting you in any of those states. I don't know if it works or not, but the idea of putting my head inside the mouth of space Pac-Man here only makes me anxious. [OSIM via Dvice]
Comments (AU Comments · US Comments)
Jackie
Posted September 9, 2008 8:38 AM
I saw this before; kind of interesting. It's cool looking but will it fit into a house without looking kind of bizarre? I'm all about massage chairs, don't get me wrong, but I just bought an iJoy from Ultimatebackstore.com and I like it because its not huge and clunky and gaudy. Plus, the website had tons of beige and light colors that make it easier to blend in. Not to mention is comfortable as heck!
Phenostar
Posted 4:44 AM 6/9/08
@Kaiser-Machead on the Edge: Like the one from THX 1138?
Phenostar
Kaiser-Machead on the Edge
Posted 4:35 AM 6/9/08
For a moment there, I thought that the remote on the holder was some sort of Happy Ending machine.
Kaiser-Machead on the Edge
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
Posted 4:34 AM 6/9/08
It looks like a foot ball helmet, and the second picture freaked me out.
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
SilenceisGolden
Posted 4:34 AM 6/9/08
SOLD !
SilenceisGolden
Enigmaaron1
Posted 4:33 AM 6/9/08
Does the top rotate all the way down to make a sweet video game chair as well? That would be awesome.
Enigmaaron1
oxcar17
Posted 4:29 AM 6/9/08
Calf massages are the best!
oxcar17
Kaiser-Machead on the Edge
Posted 4:21 AM 6/9/08
It's all fun and games until it plays Mr. Mouth with poor wallet-hemorrhaging victim.
Does it come with the levitating butterfly?
Kaiser-Machead on the Edge
Con Seannery
Posted 5:06 AM 6/9/08
That's no massage chair...that's a space station.
Con Seannery
bosskev
Posted 4:57 AM 6/9/08
This chair seems like total hippie-dippie overkill. And it takes what is already a hideous beast of burden--a monstrous massage chair--and somehow manages to make it even more imposing and unsightly. And $6,000? Ugh. But let the new-age fools line up with their credit cards to buy this monstrosity. (Indeed, once they achieve enlightenment through repeated use of this chair, perhaps the woefully-wealthy will have the chair's "standard" electric cord replaced with a high performance power cord with multi-bundled wire technology from Monster Cable.
* sigh *
Still, in the interest of full disclosure, I need to point out that I myself have actually bought a high-end massage chair (not all that unlike the one in this story, just minus the touchy-feely womb features). And I bought it a couple years ago at, drumroll please, The Sharper Image. And I say, quite unashamedly, I love it.
Franco (uh, that's the name I gave to it) has been a wonderful addtion to a corner of my bedroom. Any time of the day or night I have ready access to a faux-masseuse, and he...err, it...does a reasonably good job, all things considered. It has proven to be an excellent expenditure for me--got it for half of list price, brand new--and I use it all the time.
In fact, I'd write more about it, but I hear Franco calling for me now...
OT: -41
bosskev
JEmlay
Posted 5:26 AM 6/9/08
The butterfly seems to like it...SOLD!
JEmlay
BigDogues
Posted 5:16 AM 6/9/08
uSpace? I guess iSpace was already taken?
BigDogues
GlazedDonut2186
Posted 5:42 AM 6/9/08
Who wants a body massage?
G.I. JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEE!!
GlazedDonut2186
DeusExMach
Posted 6:04 AM 6/9/08
"Space Pac-Manish..."
Read: "Space Mac-Fanish"
DeusExMach
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
Posted 5:53 AM 6/9/08
@GlazedDonut2186: I'm speechless.
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
bitgod
Posted 7:08 AM 6/9/08
That so needs to come in yellow.
bitgod
antitrust311
Posted 9:55 AM 6/9/08
Whoa, I just saw these in Singapore three days ago at the Vivo City Mall! This company also sells this line of head massagers and fat butt zappers. They had advertisements for them plastered all over the SMRT trains. Too funny!!!@bitgod: I told my wife the same thing when we saw them, all I could think about was pac man!
antitrust311
rdarwin
Posted 11:56 AM 6/9/08
you're*
rdarwin
rdarwin
Posted 11:55 AM 6/9/08
Are you kidding! Add a jet, drop-down mac computer and a waste disposal system and there would be no reason to ever get up. Plus you can look like your from wall-e
rdarwin
Roddy
Posted 11:43 AM 6/9/08
I have a $5000 human touch chair (just got at 1/2 price). The only real difference from the pictures looks like the cocoon part which I would gladly do without because my wife would have a F-I-T!
I'm in love with mine. Just got out of it before I saw this article!
Roddy
bfg0620
Posted 1:41 PM 6/9/08
I saw something similar up at Carnegie Mellon. They said something about one of their students designing it for and winning some contest? I think. And they said something about Google ordering a whole bunch of them. Same premise as this chair and it kind of looked just like it.
bfg0620
Tonicboy
Posted 4:24 PM 6/9/08
I demo'd this massage chair yesterday and I have to say that it is, without a doubt, the Mercedes of massage chairs. I've tried other Osim chairs in the past (I think they have the best chairs overall) and was blown away before but this takes the cake. It makes the Sharper Image chair look like your grandma's rickety old rocking chair.
Tonicboy
jfreel
Posted 7:15 AM 8/9/08
This chair looks like it may service me sexually if I were to ask it nicely enough.
jfreel