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The Ultimate Computer Chair?
An anonymous reader writes "Check out www.mypce.com. They address the idea
of the computer workspaces by treating the it as an overall environment
instead of the desk and monitor we're all used to. Hopefully, the industry will
start moving in this direction and address more of the physical issues of computing.
No idea on pricing, but very cool nonetheless."
It appears to be a Medieval torture device!
Just wire your brain into the computer. Oh, and if you refuse to do so and especially if you don't want others doing so, you'll likely be killed by cyborgs toting guass rifles.
-Libertarian secular transhumanist
The ultimate computer chair is self-cleaning...pr0n!
...to be running its own built-in server... which is now slashdotted.
is a fridge for cold beer and toilet paper dispenser...
IANAL, but imagine a beowulf cluster of in Soviet Russia all your belong are base to us welcoming the new SCO overlords.
Can someone explain to me WHY I'd need a sport bucket seat to use the computer? I mean does this thing come with neon and Type R stickers? Yeah, I've got a nice force feedback wheel for playing Colin McRae 3 but I don't think it's *that* good.
Oh...and if they really want to sell then where's the fat person version? Cuz I can tell you the only way to squeeze me into something like that would inolve more Crisco than I'd care to contemplate.
"Where quality is like a dead stinking rat - you just can't miss it."
I took one look at those chairs and the first thing I thought was "These look like the design of a dentist on a bad acid trip."
Comfortable? Maybe, I've never tried one, so I can't say.
Eye-searingly awful looking? You better believe it.
"I won't mod you down - I feel the need to call you a twit explicitly, rather than by implication."
a computer chair with frikkin LASER
Indeed. For those of you who can't access the site (which is slowing down already!), it is just a dup of the iLoo announcement.
Devices like this ensure that geeks do not get laid by the cute coworker down the hall.
just needs a caff IV and a cath, and half the folks here would never leave :)
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
That thing looks like if you lean too far to the left or right, you're rollin' (At least for those fat bastards that really need a reclining chair to complement their sedentary work-style.
Get some fat-bastard playing Grand-Tourismo 4 too into the game, he starts leaning into the turns and WHAMMO!!!
Not to mention the collateral damage if your dog happens to be in the way.
..holder for the box of tissues???
Is to be combined with barstool racing technology!
... and you're all set. Is this straight out of Dilbert or what? How more anti-social can you get? Yout Personal Space is now guarded by 120VAC and large poles of steel. Great. This is a one-stop divorce mill.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
... oh, sorry, right. don't need to imagine - they already have this - the towers full of red caged humans lulled into behavior by their own personal fantasy - in the Matrix.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
"you must be THIS TALL to ride"
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"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
A real ultimate computer chair has a toilet... It also wipes.
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The last time I tried to sit in one of those someone tried to stick things in the back of my skull...
Whaddya mean it'll feel "WEIRD"?
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Anybody who finished the Nod campaign in the original Command & Conquer saw these puppies years ago. The end cinematic goes into the secret room and there's the hackers in these chairs and they go through cyberspace to steal the orbital ion cannon while hooked up in chairs like these.
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Very cool if it works, except for the 2/3rds chance of being electrocuted by force-feedback when you hit a firewall.
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"You'll be a dentist!"
Oh, Yeah! My wife is going to let me bring one of those into the house!
Well, not everybody is a whipped-up husband. Some of us are hopelessly single losers who can't get any unless it involves a financial transaction so we get plenty of space to fill as we see fit.
Now, all we need to find is a way to smuggle this monster into the basement without mom finding out.
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was built from a hospital gurney. There was a cutout for your head, much like a massage table, and the monitor screen waas facing up. The keyboard was a split-design, which was the one difficult part to get used to, and your arms would just hang straight down. The mouse was a trackball mounted horizontally.
Drool gutter optional.
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Purchase Order Request #15398
Vendor Name: Personal Computing Environments
Ship To Name: Mindragon
Purchase Request:(1) MasterPeace Personal Computing Environment
Price: $7,000.00
Purchase Reason: An ergonomically designed space will reduce the risk of repeatitive strain injury (RSI) and increase my overall productivity while I'm in the office thereby decreasing expenses and generating additional revenues for the company.
Real Reason: This looks way cool!!!
From the Mind...of a Dragon...
Just add {In Space!} to anything.
Seems like it would be a few grand cheaper to just mod a Real Doll. The ultimate intersection of computing and....*ahem* comfort.
If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten. -George Carlin
Main problem I've experienced first hand: Even VPs can't bury farts in the mesh.
Made for quite an embarassing moment in the meeting, that's for sure.
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
...to allow you to hang a CRT from there.
sooo.. you want an adapter to hang a 50+ lbs CRT monitor from a LCD mount two feet above your nuts. Am I the only one thinking this might be a bad idea?
--I don't want the world, I just want your half.
>instead of ..in bed! it's with a laser!...
... chyea, right. For $7,000 I better be sitting on Claudia Schiffer's lap for 8 hours a day.
Actually I keep a laser under my pillow. Because you never know.
No joke.
I was pretty seriously contemplating one of these chairs until I saw the $2,800 - $7,000 price tag
Glonoinha the MebiByte Slayer