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Barca Lounger for Geeks
biggaloot writes "This contraption for computing from your favorite recliner is pretty tempting. Spring for the plush his and hers loveseat with built-in cooler and you'll seldom have to stand up. " I'm exceptionally amused that the model in the picture is wearing sweatpants.
Well, it's safe to assume that nobody takes this guy seriously. I also think he hopes that's true, because if somebody at GeoCities takes this thing seriously they're gonna boot him off and tell him to pay stupid amounts of money to his ISP to get a commercial account :).
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(and no, I don't know what that's from)
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You laptop jockeys may want to look at one of these; it's called the Laptop Laidback.
I prefer recliners. I also have a waterbed, a couch, and a floor. All provide great resting areas, but a recliner just seems to grab my ass the best. Unfortunately, it can only hold one person at a time, making the bed the most logical choice for nightime.
And to think I've been arguing with my girlfriend that guys don't always have holes in their socks... damn.
He could have at least put a pretty girl in the chair.
When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood.
-Tom Jones
at least one of the photos blatantly displays the lack of cords plugged into the CPU.
i might've been born yesterday, but i stayed up all night
Watch out that it doesn't heat your testicles or your wife won't be getting any.
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Never underestimate the power of wishful thinking to filter what the eyes see and what the ears hear
--BuSa
Umm, on thing about these are they are really bad on your back. If you have ever slept ona recliner or hunched up and read a book in your bed, oyur back hurts not long after you started. Look at the way the guys back is bent in the pictures. Inless you are sitting straight up, like you would in a normal chair, after a short period of time you are going to have some bad back pains. Do this everyday and you are going to be hunched over and crippled when you are older.
Jeff Knox
I'd rather go with a split keyboard (really split) from these guys. Yeah it's made for a chair, but I think it could be attached to a layzboy pretty easily. :)
You'll get testicular cancer doing that pal.
The lounge-O-computer-desk looks more like a joke than an actual product to me.
I'll stick with my Aeron, thanks.
The laptop is set so it is slightly higher at the back, slanting the keyboard down so I can see/use it more easily. In practice I do most of my net surfing from the tub, and then I can hunker down so the only parts of me above the water line are my eyes and the hand controlling the mouse. The power supply brick is in a splashproof spot and is on a GFI besides, so everything is safe - except, of course, for trying to explain things to my wife if I should ever actually screw up and drop the laptop into the water.
BTW, the shelf is about 18" wide, so my midsection is decently covered, and friends and family can wander in and out without any averted eyes or my scrambling for something opaque!
Seriously, I've got significant neck problems, and I spend maybe four hours a day under water, in much more comfort than sitting at a chair. If I'm not using the laptop, I'm reading, using a stand sitting on the shelf to hold my book upright hands-free. Oh yes, I also have a pair of "terminal glasses" so I comfortably focus at the two-foot distance of screen or book; trying to read something higher than my head with bifocals would not further the ultimate goal of making my neck feel better.
-- John Dierdorf, Austin TX
This thing may be nice for web surfing or completely paperless environments. But most people trying to do serious work will need another piece of furnature (or another computer).
Yes, I know it's theoretically possible to work without anything beyond the screen and what's in your head - if your tools (or your head's RAM) are good enough. But IMHO theory and practice have yet to meet.
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1280x1024 is evil. The pixels are not square!!!
Yup, I saw it on ZDTV last week. It was, sadly, the only source of Tech news that I could find in the Bahamas.
Opinionated Law Student Strikes Again!
I've been going to build one of those for ages now (thought of the idea when I was about 12 or so). I always figured maybe I'd run into some dentist's chairs at an auction or something but never did, so I'm figuring on building one from scratch. I was going to start on it this weekend but my favorite place to scrounge for unusual metals (like the stainless steel pole I'll need) was closed for the holiday. But mine's going to have motorized height adjustments and movable elbow joints on those monitor/keyboard arms, and a bookrest for when I have to resort to dead-tree edition reading material due to lack of electronic versions.
:-)
Someday I want to build an active-suspension lounge too - one that measures your body weight distribution and actively tries to equalize it for maximum comfort. It will be built for two of course.
You put your monitor and keyboard on a swivel mount.. and used a lazy boy recliner instead of a regular chair... and you think you're gonna patent that? Who do you think you are, Microsoft?
More seriously - I wouldn't recommend that kind of environment for any length of time. While it may *look* good, it most certainly will not *feel* good after long periods of use - there's a reason you should keep your feet on the floor, and your butt to the back of the seat - it keeps you a) alert, and b) minimizes back / neck pain.
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a hole in his sock, too ! At $500 a pop, you'd think he could get some good socks...
Too bad I don't have $490, so I'll have to settle for the computer on a table next to my recliner and couch. Almost as good, but not much room for adjustment. I hope to see something like this in stores soon as I would be tempted to charge it.
This is just too funny! Looks like somebody just got hisself a parallel port cam or perhaps a scanner. He just looks soooo pleased with himself. Hehehe.
Reminds me of our 5 person network Quake ][ bash in a friend's friend's apartment, all of us laying back in easy chairs and couches with our monitors on the floor, keyboard/mice in laps, and cpu boxen lost in a huge tangle of cables and networkingness. Man that was fun.
Oh, that was when we went to Seattle to watch Almost Live! live. Bastards! They just canceled the show after 15 years. All good people need to let forth a terrible sigh and then go burn down the KING5 studio. (HEHE. For those out of the Seattle area loop, they also own KONG TV. Get it?? King Kong. hahahahaha!)
*totally offtopic* Red Hot Chili Peppers New Cut Californication is a bumpin' disk!!!
"I want peace on earth and good will toward men." "We're the U.S. government. We don't do that sort of thing!!"
For what he's charging he should.
My gramps has a chair like that, its exactly the same! Even the handle on the side looks the same!
It was probably an analytical engine chair.
I think this might be great until you want to stand up.. then you might have a slight problem on your hands (or floor).
Believe me, staying in one position for a long, long, long time (representing anyone who reads slashdot and stays at the computer for many hours) is really hard to re-cover from, and get the blood flowing again.
Cheers to anything that makes your foot fall asleep.
Matthew
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If you noticed, that swivel rack with the monitor seems to have a "slight" bend. Which for that 17" (?) monitor, it is okay, but some of us have 21" monitors. I wonder how sturdy that thing REALLY is. :)
...you could buy a Twiddler and relax for 40% of the price.
I've rigged the furniture in similar ways back when I played red alert for about twenty hours a day. It fucks your back something awful. A good hard chair is your only man.
... but doesn't the smile on that dude make you think he is about to go for your jugular?
He looks like he's a few megs short of a gig in his cabeza to boot.
Killing spammers is too good for them.
It looks from the pictures as if there is no tilt control for the keyboard. This would be horrible, since it would cause your wrist to bend in unnatural ways when reclining.
Looks easy enough to build ...
I was wondering where you could get so many long cords to hook everything up to the monitor, but then, looking closer, it's not even plugged in for any of the shots!
There's a 68.71% chance you're right.
You call that a computer chair? My gramps has a chair like that, its exactly the same! Even the handle on the side looks the same!
Anyone else think this think is well on it's way to becoming a full fledged Dentist's rig? Add in a motorized lazy boy and you're done.
This thing looks like a disaster waiting to happen. It's REALLY important that your wrist joints are straight while typing. The surface of the keyboard stand on that contraption is not going to be parallel to your forarms. In addition, can you imagine the inconvenience of adjusting the height while sitting in the chair?
Buy this *only* if you feel like suing the smug looking guy in the photos a couple of months after purchase. Doesn't look like he's worth much though...judging by those socks!
Notice that in all pictures, the device is to the right of the bed or chair. I've thought about having a bedside computer, but I'd want it on my *left* since that's the side I sleep on. Wonder if this gadget can switch sides with some wrench-twidding?
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I like this guys idea. But an LCD display with a swivel arm would do nicely for me. And I prefer to have my trusty old keyboard simply resting in my lap. Only problem: when wil there be affordable 1280x1024 LCD displays?
I'm sitting in my recliner right now with my feet up and my laptop on my lap. (Hey! I never thought about why they call them laptops.) It doubles as a leg warmer too.
/. or usenet all at the same time!
A laptop is also not as obrusive as that monstrosity either. This way I can talk to my wife (well, listen actually), watch a game on TV and work or read
If I tried to put a monstrosity like that in our house things would not go well for me. First I would have to listen over and over again to the whining and complaining about how ugly it is and how it doesn't go with the furniture and how she would be too ashamed to ever have company again. And then because it would consume so much of my attention I would be accused tearfully of never wanting to talk to her and how I must not love her anymore. Then before you know it those special little moments when she replaces the laptop lapwarmer with a much more cuddly one would cease. Then I would be just like you guys and not getting any.
No thanks. I'm going to stick with my laptop. It is light enough for my wife to pick it up and put it on the floor and join me in my barco-lounger.
or maybe we just need those chairs they had in the matrix, so we can jack in through a pirated signal and defeat the machines!!! or play some mad q3 games =]