This chair is expected to sell in retail for $1,300 USD.
It would be nice if someone could produce an innovative but affordable solution for the 'rest of us' working poor, since we have to sit also for long periods of time.
It would be nice if someone could produce an innovative but affordable solution for the 'rest of us' working poor, since we have to sit also for long periods of time.
Why not film some comparative long-term lab experiments that involve more than just someone sitting on it for a few minutes, run some Autocad or Matlab simulations or so on? Perhaps even provide just a table with numbers for the metrics they used to determine that this chair is indeed better than most, if not the best? Besides the 27 degrees angle that is supposedly optimal.
Also, from what I'm aware, osteopathy is not actually real medical science, it's an alternative view/philosophy of healthcare. This is a device touted to be a preventive cure for so many problems, yet there was not mention of it being validated by real doctors. The designer himself is probably not a doctor, I doubt he would've missed the opportunity of garnering extra-credibility for his KS campaign by adding Dr. next to his name.
The unfortunate truth that most people don't want to deal with is that the best way to prevent back pain, assuming you don't have major anatomical problems, is to simply exercise regularly. It takes a bit of time and willpower to not give up after the first few seconds. I've also had some pretty serious back pain caused by prolonged sitting. Resting even more in a fancier chair or worse, in bed, did not make them go away. What did fix the issue was simply using an exercise bike for a few minutes per day.
In conclusion, I don't think you should feel sorry for not being able to easily afford spending $1.3k on a chair. Consider pressuring your boss to get an exercise bike for the office instead. It is unlikely that there'll be that much of a difference between a $200 chair and a $1.3k one.
1. Build sports car
2. Use that money to build an affordable car
3. Use that money to build an even more affordable car
4. While doing above, also provide zero emission electric power generation options
Tesla is on schedule with their strategy; they obviously can't just jump from step 1 to 3. We'll see if they can move from step 2 to 3, but their success from 1 to 2 is super promising IMO.
This is actually a very common strategy for introducing new technology to the market. It seems like this strategy was applied for the initial iPhone as well, as it originally cost $600 (far more than any other phone on the market). Pretty soon it was $400, and then after a generation or two, you could purchase one for $200.
Except they have. It's just that the costs are mostly up-front vs over time as with ICEs.
http://www.sitbetter.com/view/chair/sto-ball-chair/the-origi...
Very adjustable chairs exist that are reasonably affordable. What is lacking is a standardised mechanism to make those adjustments easily and in the correct way for your particular body shape.