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A Set of Extra, Wearable Legs for On-Demand Seating
The LEX Bionic Chair could be a godsend for those with back or leg issues
By Rain Noe - September 10, 2018
I try never to sit at airports, particularly at the gate while waiting for a flight. If you're going to be inside an airplane and sitting on your ass for the next several hours, I think you should try to keep your feet as much as possible beforehand.
However, I'm able-bodied. For those with back or leg issues, frequent sitting could be a godsend, particularly in locations where there are no seats available. So I think that this wearable LEX Bionic Chair, as crazy as it looks, could be extremely useful to a subset of the population:
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Enter a caption (optional)The LEX weighs a little over two pounds, yet will support more than 260 pounds. They're going on Kickstarter for $245 a pop, and it's already been successfully funded, with 22 days left at press time.
Rain Noe
Rain Noe is a writer and industrial designer based in New York City.
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How do the legs 'come bak up'; I saw her release them but how do you get them back up? Didn't look that comfortable walking, like they'd hit the back of your legs. The video is OK but maybe have more examples in outdoor places; showing all these people in an office environment which usually has chairs available is not ideal.
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I think they forgot to show the part where the person wearing this gets on the bus and has to take it off, then put it back on after getting off the bus. I can't convince myself that these are worth it for my life because chairs and benches are readily available. I guess there is a subset somewhere.
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Senior citizens are people too! They could totally benefit from well-designed sitting support if and wherever because sometimes there's no telling where fatigue hits. Trying to encourage my dad to get out more and about but looking for places to sit stops him.
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Just make great street furniture, bus shelters, park benches and low walls that invite seating instead of products like this that are fun but superfluous.
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😑why though?
Also, no thought for whole user experience. like Luke Haney already said. who wants to remove this and put it back on to navigate everyday. Maybe if the legs cleverly conformed to our legs more, but strength would be hard to achieve and I have doubts about this design as it is. The whole thing is clumsy and doesn't solve any real issue.What is so difficult about buying one of the countless chairs that product designers drool over, sketch obsessively and talk about too much?!Report as spam -
Of course they will support blubber -- they are made from "aerospace grade" aluminum!
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You use 2!!! 4 legs!
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They don't look nearly strong enough to support the 300 pounds of obese blubber that will invariably use this exceedingly stupid item.
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OMG... this was in a Last Man Standing episode: House of Tutor, S6 E19 at 10:35 and 20:25 (you can catch it on Hulu). Kyle invented a seat you carry with you. LOL
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