Hoverit's Lounger, the magnetically levitating acrylic chaise
By Ryan Block 
posted Jan 18th 2008 1:38PM
posted Jan 18th 2008 1:38PM
[Via Physorg]
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this thing looks like crap
Boho
...is SO last year.
sounds like the name of a sad clown
Or a slutty one.
I'd had to see what these do to your wallet ... i.e. demagnetizing your credit cards.
I'd love to sit in this thing. Even though I'd probably fall over and look like an idiot. I'll stick to the hammock.
It looks like the chair in Star Trek TNG where a bunch of people were experimented and tortured on
click click clicity click click
It's a cool idea, just really really really ugly.
Exactly what I was thinking... If they could make it comfortable but keep the illusion that it is floating... then you have something.
me want
I'd love one of my friends to be sitting in this. Can't take TOO hard of a shove to push it off the magnets, right?
As cool as that would be, it's held in place by posts under the armrests. No pushing it off the magnets, I'm afraid...
This thing looks like it belongs in some futuristic torture chamber...
And you thought getting into a hammock was difficult.
what's so ugly about it?
impractical, yes. but it looks pretty cool and minimalist to me
One person's opinion. The FACT is . . . that Joan Rivers slam was AWESOME. Good job, Ryan.
They also have a Magnetic Levitation BED out there but, these things are senseless. Your body makes contact with the seat or the mattress and due to the rigid designs, these things are hella uncomfortable. Waterbeds and memory foam feels much much better.
Considering they simply suspend a chair above magnets but use the arm rest posts to hold the whole thing in place, it isn't very cool.
So why not just use a cushion or mattress?
Agreed. The levitation by magnets still means that hard acrylic chair is pushing against your @ss and back with an equal and opposite force. Great example of form winning over function/comfortable/price.
Ever since I saw the Back to the Future movies (when I was like 3 or 4) I always wanted a hover-board, or anything that defied gravity for that matter... so I'd take it even if it is ugly.
Ryan you really sound like a BIG conservative, that's original therefore a good idea. and I think it would be cool to see those at the beach
do want
"Sorry Joan Rivers, Hoverit Lounger is officially sliding into the pole position for the most hideously awkward looking piece of plastic flittering around..."
Well done. Classic Engadget snark.
yes kudos!! I read it a few times just to soak it all up.
will this wipe my 3.5" disks i carry in my pocket?
Was about to comment on that. This would be hilarious to have in your house, have anyone you don't like with a hdd mp3 player sit in it and bam there goes their songs.
Ah, just sit back with your laptop, relax, and watch your hard drive get wiped.
LOL Just what I thought!
Also, a cell phone, MP3 player, camera and other portable devices might be safely reformatted.
And the keys may start dancing in the pocket :))))
With some upholstery it might be ok. Still ugly, but at least a little more comfortable.
As a fully fledged, design obsessed homosexual, I approve. Everyone needs at least on piece of furniture that scares children, old people, and the general religious populous.
It looks kind of flight of the navigatorish...
I'd love to see some bitch-ass goth kid covered in spikes sit in this and get stuck to the magnets.
I think it looks cool, imagine Barbarella using it...
Wait, wasn't this part of American Levitation's line, before Malachi Constant disappeared?
"Sitting on an American Levitation couch is harder than standing up in a birchbark canoe."
Needs a super cool leather seat on top and the magnets should be replaced with electromagnets attached to a dial
"Wow, the chairs so comfortable you've fallen asleep *turns dial* ... and now your face is attached to my ceiling :)"
Sorry it's a bit too Hannibal Lector for me...
Is this a new way to monitor your weight? The lower the seat sits the more you weigh.
This thing reminds me of my Junior High school science project...
I want my TV to hoover, not me.
i don't care what the pessimistic engadget writers say, that thing is freaking sweet. The point was nto for it to be comfortable or even to look good, it was to float in the air... and that's AWESOME
I had to look up Joan Rivers to remember who she was haha.
i wonder what happens if you sit in it with a credit card
ultimate trampoline!!!
Yeah, whatever. It's got magnets, and that's all I need to have a good time.
I first read "magnetically" as "magically."
Mold a cushion into it and I'll want one.
I'd buy that, stick some cushions on it and bam! they need to come out with couches and office chairs that float too!
Don't you have to have a magnetic or at least metal floor for it to levitate? Magnets don't naturally levitate unless repelled by other magnets.
And this chair would be instant death to anyone with a pacemaker.
typical, no vision. everyone knows levitating chairs should move about