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Soyuz Chair Transforms Lay-Z-Boys Into Cosmonauts

Sitting in the typical recliner has become the weeknight sex of the furniture world—a comfortable task for your body while your mind focuses on TV. The Soyuz Chair hopes to break the mundanity with vintage Soviet space craft design.

Intended to “accurately reproduce” the three stages of a Soyuz rock launch, the you recline, put on eyewear/headphones and input your requested ride into the control panel (should they prefer a single stage or full-out rocket launch). The chair then rattles its way from a mundane home to…well, it doesn’t go anywhere. But maybe you won’t realise that until you take off the mask and return to Everybody Loves Raymond reruns. [Design Interactions via Core77 via OhGizmo!]

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  • DaSmith

    Armchair granny goes "weeeeee!" and unfortunately suffers a heart attack because of too many "g"'s experienced.

    DaSmith

  • SnowPower

    I would not trust this chair. BRAINWASH! :)

    SnowPower

  • modzs

    @SewerShark: it's just you.

    modzs

  • SewerShark

    Its just me, or it looks like a dog?

    SewerShark

  • Die Fledermaus

    Okay I have to say it, if the chairs a rockin don't come knockin.

  • Dr.Remulak

    Also includes massive Russian rocket failure explode on the pad mode where the chair burns you into a small chacoal brickett....

  • modzs

    Early Russian spacecraft design? I'll pass. There are hours upon hours of footage of Russian spacecrafts crashing and burning. Plus their economy can barely support the production of paperclips (not that ours is much better right now).

    Where can I order one?

    modzs

  • facepuncher

    That first sentence was great. Kudos to you, Mark Wilson.

  • Kaiser-Machead

    @mikeness: Hippies don't know the first thing about kidnapping, and wouldn't know the first thing about brainwashing, as they'd be so adamantly trying to avoid being brainwashed themselves, donning bandanas lined with silica and aluminum foil to keep the satellite signals out of their heads, and popping shrooms and hitting bongs to have an otherworldly experience.

    Kaiser-Machead

  • TheCrudMan

    Soyuz isn't vintage, they're still in use and being built new.

    TheCrudMan

  • darknecross

    Main picture looks like a remote-control puppy.

    Cannot unsee.

    darknecross

  • Hello Mister Walrus

    @closhedbb: Silence your blasphemy. All hail Xenu!!

    Hello Mister Walrus

  • closhedbb

    @mikeness: I had a similar experience, though it was at a Scientology center.

    closhedbb

  • Digital9

    hilarious.@mikeness:

    Digital9

  • alexvanduyn

    What is up with that second pic? The chair looks crooked!

  • Skeetz

    Also known as: How I shot my mother-in-law off the balcony.

    Skeetz

  • mikeness

    I have a meat rocket that hot old lady can ride to pleasure planet if she's interested...

    Ok gotta go throw up now.

  • Purple Monkey Dishwasher

    "the three stages of a Soyuz rock launch"

    Although I know that's a spelling error, that might be right way to explain a Soyuz launch

    Purple Monkey Dishwasher

  • alexvanduyn

    Whats with the old Russian mother in the chair? She the cosmonauts wife?

  • mikeness

    WTF? I was kidnapped and strapped into one of these and brainwashed at a hippy commune once.

  • Die Fledermaus

    It comes with its own babushka, or is this an additional feature. Either way she does not look comfortable, then it must be Soyuz chair.

  • Digital9

    really?

    Digital9

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