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Is it possible to design a chair that will fit everyone, whether short, tall, fat, skinny? Maybe or maybe not, but if any company can pull it off, it's Herman Miller.

Given this seemingly impossible task, HM's engineers came back with the Embody chair:

The Embody's colorful fabric seat hides a system of 94 plastic coils. Each compresses independently, allowing pointy bones or bulky wallets to sink in without causing nearby areas to sag. The designers also tuned the springiness of each coil based on its location. The coils under your thighs and the soft backs of your knees give easily so they don't chafe; those under the bones in your rear, which bear most of your weight, are the stiffest. Plastic caps on top of the coils tilt in any direction to hug instead of poke your curves.

via popular science