Exoskeletons are a great idea, but perhaps they are a lot of hard work to use. Finally, an exoskeleton for the rest-of-us. ( http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/20/tech/innovation/the-chairless-chair/index.html ) "It's like a chair that isn't there, but magically appears whenever you need it. It's called the Chairless Chair and you wear it on your legs like an exoskeleton: when it's not activated, you can walk normally or even run. And then, at the touch of a button, it locks into place and you can sit down on it. Like a chair that is now there."
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(Score: 5, Funny) by bart9h on Thursday August 21 2014, @03:21AM
While sitting down all day is so detrimental to health that it will shorten life expectancy, standing up in order to work is also a source of problems.
So maybe working is the problem?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday August 21 2014, @03:34AM
Tell it to the chronically unemployed.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 21 2014, @07:00AM
The problem of the chronically unemployed is not that they have no work, but that they have no income (other than welfare) and a low social status.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 21 2014, @12:19PM
No, they simply have no income, as food assistance and unemployment insurance have been cut so much as to be non-existent and both have been made unavailable to so many as to be pointless.
(Score: 2) by SlimmPickens on Thursday August 21 2014, @03:41AM
Obviously! If people weren't working they'd be free to choose infinite possibilities in between sitting and standing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 21 2014, @04:01AM
As the space is quantified to Plank length, you are technically incorrect.
(Score: 2) by SlimmPickens on Thursday August 21 2014, @04:24AM
Well if that's the level of the discussion, I haven't specified the size of my subject. However the lack of that infinity was indeed my point, so thank you.
(Score: 2) by davester666 on Thursday August 21 2014, @05:11AM
but they can't choose a specific position when anybody else is looking at them.
(Score: 2) by nitehawk214 on Thursday August 21 2014, @03:10PM
This is going to turn out to be an elaborate "plancking" joke, isn't it?
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by silverly on Thursday August 21 2014, @03:37AM
We first start with exoskeleton chairs. Then we can boost our workforce by providing them spring attached to the legs allowing them to move quicker.
Then we integrate some muscle replacing robotics.
Then we are robots. With just a fancy brain.
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Thursday August 21 2014, @03:43AM
As long as I have a large enough battery for the commute home, cheap electricity, work provided maintenance, and broadband internet, I'll be alright.
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday August 21 2014, @04:04AM
Another one that knows for sure "sex organs" is a misnomer, as they are (now) only good to take a leak.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday August 21 2014, @05:04AM
This is what you call revolution? Mate, tell yea... we reached that point, even without exoskeleton or other implants, so what you said just isn't a revolution anymore.
Now, for the real revolution: what will the future Ballmers do if every chair in this world would be worn by somebody (or left at home)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by rts008 on Thursday August 21 2014, @02:13PM
I wonder how far Ballmer can throw himself while wearing one of these?
Maybe this would make for an amusing poll question. ;-)
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Thursday August 21 2014, @05:23PM
Better question, if Ballmer tosses an invisible chair, will anybody see it?
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Rivenaleem on Thursday August 21 2014, @10:30AM
My daddy brought me to work once to have me "tested" and we got to wear really neat springy shoes. It was great fun, and we had cake!
(Score: 1) by jbWolf on Thursday August 21 2014, @04:10AM
I skimmed the articles and saw the pics. It's a neat device, but chairs are going to be a lot more comfortable if a choice is given. They envision it used mostly on a factory floor which I can see it being useful especially as a person ages. They also have a pic of someone on a subway or bus but I don't think that idea will work. Those modes of transport seemingly pull some high g's at times. Still, an impressive little device. They say it works with a 6 volt battery for 24 hours. Of course, that's marketing speaking.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by frojack on Thursday August 21 2014, @05:57AM
It also seems likely that once you start to tip over, you are going down fast.
Several of the pictures show people sitting in unstable positions supported only by the heels of their shoes.
As soon as you start leaning backward for what ever reason, even a couple degrees, that position is pretty much unrecoverable.
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(Score: 1) by wantkitteh on Thursday August 21 2014, @08:25AM
Centre of gravity outside floor contact boundaries = ouch. Unless you're Dynamo, of course.
(Score: 3, Funny) by nukkel on Thursday August 21 2014, @04:53AM
I hear Ballmer already placed a pre-order.
(Score: 1) by rfree on Thursday August 21 2014, @07:42AM
Lol :&
(Score: 1) by PlasticCogLiquid on Thursday August 21 2014, @09:51AM
:D
(Score: 2) by present_arms on Thursday August 21 2014, @09:43AM
Now when I approach a lady and ask "Is this chair taken?" She'll reply "why haven't you brought your own?" damn science :P
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(Score: 2) by randmcnatt on Thursday August 21 2014, @10:24AM
The Wright brothers were not the first to fly: they were the first to land.
(Score: 2) by BasilBrush on Thursday August 21 2014, @12:47PM
More than a century old.
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(Score: 1) by mrkaos on Thursday August 21 2014, @11:54AM
and a bear as well.
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(Score: 2) by mrider on Thursday August 21 2014, @02:47PM
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(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Thursday August 21 2014, @10:10PM
Given the amount of force necessary for such an exoskeleton to maintain a sitting posture on an average adult, it seems more than sufficient to snap your knees 90 degrees in a wrong direction. I hope it is physically unable to move in any other direction lest hackers try their hand at kneecapping.
Also, woe to the person who wears these backwards.
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