That's one seriously over-enguineered piece of furniture.

A title was required so I borrowed one from Fyodor Dostoevsky.

A great idea ... until the machines rise up and users are thrown headlong into the nearest wall when they try to get up.

There've been TV ads around since Jesus was a lad offering "chairs that help you stand up" which seem to work in pretty much the same way. There's a general tendancy to "velour armchair that your granny would like" in the more standard product though.

I wonder what the size of the "techy office chairs for coffin-dodgers" market is?

Ballmer goes near it, it can kick him inna fork?

this gives rise to all sorts of really nasty BOFH type of ideas involving advanced hydrolics, remote controls and ... other people.

would a chair be considered inadequate without a shitload of springs and pulleys inside. Wake me when they do a flying, submersible version with Bluetooth remote controlled bum-warming, an MP3 player and a USB socket or three

Is sitting down really that fucking difficult? What's wrong with people nowadays they're so fucking lazy nobody can be arsed to do any actual work anymore I hate lazy c*nts.