From yesterday’s ridiculous to today’s sublime. Not one of you reading this right now would underestimate the importance of good seating, especially for the baby whose future entails a high likelihood of editing a gadget blog. Ladies and gentleman, we introduce the Bloom fresco.
The Lula Sapphire website tells us this seat is a firm favourite with the Hollywood A-list. Gosh, it must be good. It was created, we are told, by European design house Bloom to “encompass state-of-the-art functionality and bring premium quality infant fashion into the home for the first time”. Infant fashion. Because infants care.
It’s got everything that the 21st century baby/infant/toddler should have and be able to enjoy in a quality chair — multiple configurations, pneumatic assistance, five-point harness, enclosed castor wheels, 360-degree swivel seat and, of course, the all-important enclosed storage compartment for small parts and instruction manual.
Yes. Instruction manual. Of course, you know you’ll never read it. What kind of tech-head are you, anyway? Hell, the kid can’t read, not for a while yet, so why bother with a freakin’ instruction manual? And a compartment to keep it in? Well, because it’s satisfying, that’s why. When lesser mortals (ie your parents) are struggling with that five-point harness and swivel seat, you can tell them in a self-satisfied tone that an instruction manual is available should they require it. And that it has its own compartment.
We’re pretty impressed with this sleekly-styled marvel of child containment technology but a little disappointed about what it’s missing. There’s clearly room for a touchpad and a 5in OLED screen on that tray. Modders, to your workbenches!
Ryan
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at 10:27 AM“encompass state-of-the-art functionality and bring premium quality infant fashion into the home for the first time”
Yes, but is it easy to clean?
Lee
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at 10:41 AMThat all sounds great, but I know a few people who have these seats and unfortunately the people that matter – the kids that sit in them, can’t stand them. They are much happier in a $40 high chair from Ikea. Kids eh? – no accounting for taste!
Peter McHardy
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at 1:17 PMClever posts and right on the mark, however, What most people want to say is ‘What a load of crap’. Chairs for kids … with idiot parents!
Rod
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at 4:29 PMWe have had one of these for about a year and my daughter is very happy in it – not that she isn’t happy in the ikea one at my inlaws ;)
Kelvin
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at 6:29 PMI like the design especially where it allows you to swing the seat to eighter upright or basically lying down for newbown babies. Is there any minmum & maximum age guide on these funky chairs?