Walking Chair tests your dedication to laziness, extravagance

Anyone can go into Office Depot and pick up a rolling desk seat for fifty bucks, but it takes a truly lazy individual to shell out almost $22,000 for a chair that very slowly "walks" you into proper working position. Actually, we doubt that the commercially-available Walking Chair from Vienna-based design studio Walking Things is really built for sitting; it's more likely meant as a showpiece for the ridiculous amount of disposable income you're pulling in. Each minimalist eight-legged unit is hand-assembled upon order, meaning that you'll need to wait at least six weeks to show your friends how very little €15,000 ($21,906) mean to you.

[Via Slashgear]

[NHAnimator @ Jan 25th 2008 9:42AM]

You have GOT to be kidding me.

[Homeboy @ Jan 25th 2008 9:49AM]

Stairs(!)

[Byzil Mystwing @ Jan 25th 2008 9:49AM]

Did anyone else see that video on their site where the chair walks up to a normal one then very dramatically shoves it down some stairs? lol

[Peter D. Lai @ Jan 25th 2008 11:08AM]

please dont sit on Walking-Chairs, do take seat on other seats

[STUD HUNK @ Jan 25th 2008 9:59AM]

Itsn't there a possibility that this chair as well as the rolling seat could be helpful to those who are handicapped.

Perhaps the essence of this technology - once developed for mainstream use - will lead to such solutions

[Corwin @ Jan 25th 2008 2:42PM]

We choose not to use our technological powers for good... I think it's our instinctual adherence to natural selection...

[Bobs @ Jan 25th 2008 10:03AM]

Um, maby someone should tip them in on a little government secret, wheelchairs. Would be funny as hell to show off to a friend as your chair walks from the kitchen to the TV.

[Tom Oliveri @ Jan 25th 2008 10:15AM]

lol, can somebody please send this idiot the blue prints for a wheel?

[Brian @ Jan 25th 2008 10:19AM]

Looks like a step backwards from a wheelchair. I bet this thing moves pretty quick. Maybe ten minutes to walk yourself to the fridge to get a beer.

[Blacknimbus @ Jan 25th 2008 10:34AM]

Yes, but is it art?

[Borat @ Jan 25th 2008 10:37AM]

King of the castle! King of the Castle!

[Alphonso Delitralla @ Jan 25th 2008 10:44AM]

The birth of the Hedonism Bot, anyone?

[John @ Jan 25th 2008 4:06PM]

Only if it comes with a man-servent named Djambi!

[Andrew @ Jan 25th 2008 10:50AM]

it looks like one of those salad bar containers with metal poles sticking out of it.

[aeo @ Jan 25th 2008 10:51AM]

Ha! Walking Things is a bit delusional to think anybody sees this and wants to spend 22G on it much less buy it at all. We should start and "American Idol" for corporations. These guys would be on the first loser reel.

[Don @ Jan 25th 2008 11:53AM]

There was an "American Idol" for inventors... Looks like they are casting for Season 2 even...

American Inventor
http://www.americaninventor.tv/

[Susan @ Jan 25th 2008 11:00AM]

It looks uncomfortable

[LuisF @ Jan 25th 2008 11:06AM]

Hmmm... what a waste of money!

[tamoghno @ Jan 25th 2008 11:58AM]

nominee : Best crapgadget , 2008.

[Chris Aubeck @ Jan 25th 2008 1:17PM]

How much for a similarly designed toilet?

[somemale @ Jan 25th 2008 1:40PM]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiuwFT55MtI

[Nik Shah @ Jan 25th 2008 4:31PM]

Nice!!! With a shoe!

[somemale @ Jan 25th 2008 1:40PM]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiuwFT55MtI

[DT @ Jan 25th 2008 1:41PM]

And here I am using my legs like a SUCKER.

[Aashish Jain @ Jan 25th 2008 3:21PM]

lol @ Homer reference

[Corwin @ Jan 25th 2008 2:45PM]

A wife doesn't cost $22,000.... I think that's a better solution.



... wait, nevermind. The chair's much cheaper.

[Nick @ Jan 25th 2008 5:35PM]

In Borat's voice "There is a chair.....it is a walking....la la la....."

[Sirocco @ Jan 25th 2008 7:47PM]

If a walking chair is lazy, what is a chair that just sits there?

[John @ Jan 26th 2008 12:24AM]

Add some 6 foot legs to that and it's a great intimidator. Imagine a boss chewing someone out from a super tall chair that's slowly creeping up on you. Fuck me, that's deranged.

[Jarhead2012 @ Jan 27th 2008 11:30AM]

But where is the screen? I was under the impression that it played Doom.