Armchair Paradise pod puts you in an embryonic state... almost
By Darren Murph 
posted Feb 20th 2008 10:20PM
posted Feb 20th 2008 10:20PM
[Via CNET]
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Paint it yellow... and someone will buy it!
Hey look, I guess they answered the question about a human: 'Will it Blend?'
Gobble, Gobble!
Pricing? I thought everything was going to be free in the future!
this thing is cooler...although it's like $10k
http://www.bornrich.org/entry/luxury-sleeping-pod-with-led-lights-and-speakers/
its kinda like darth vader's pod, except for capitalism and non forced related issues.
That is NOT like Darth Vaders "Pod". Puhleeeze
If you go back to the movies his "Pod" was about 5 times bigger, split in half horizontally with teeth, flatscreen TV embedded in the walls, and rotated around the room.
Ohhhh, not to mention it could take his "Hat" off for him and store it in the ceiling. Which implied it was hermetically sealed and filtered.
This thing looks more like a weird egg with feet.
well, darth vader had all the powers of the force, the galactic empire and use of the enormous death star to build a awesome pod. unfortuantly, the average layman lacks these powers and must do with a weird egg that contains no lcd tvs, hat removal services, rotational abilities and forces one to make do with purell instead of the hermetically sealed add-ons. we also lack feet storage abilities. sucks, doesnt it?
Why do you say you wouldn't recommend it?
I'd buy it anyday.... If it's not ridiculously high priced, of course...
It's not like you will use it on a public place
Well, let's look at what this thing does:
1. Let's you relax.
2. Shuts out light.
3. Surrounded by sound.
4. Possibly even sleep if it's good enough.
Most people already have all of the above. Mine is called my bedroom curled up in a soft blanket on my Tempurpedic with the lights out and my sound system on. And, since I'll always have all this stuff, it's free. Even better, I won't get laughed at.
She sure does look relaxed with those heels still on.
Actually, it appears to do more than just relax you. Not only have her heels changed from "before" to "after", but so have her pants. WTF is going on inside that pod?!?
wow...good eye. The pod changes everything it gets its grubby mitts on.
OMG... It looks like something that will eat me. Obviously, It must have a ventilator of sorts!
Pac-Man's got the taste for blood !
Nice one! I was just thinking it looks like an albino Pac-Man regurgitating a woman
Play some pron in there and its a jack pod!!!
whacka whacka whacka whacka
I'm eggstatic about it.
Wow it's a giant Marvin the Robot head!
If they've got a curved lcd under that hood I'll take one. Now that a few companies are doing the cubicleless thing maybe this would be a better replacement (as long as it has a curved lcd. Keep it open for diaglogs with coworkers, close it for quiet private conference calls (hell you could even add a webcam to it for virtual conferencing).
Nanoo Nanoo?
Wow. Someone is showing their age! ;) But props to Mork. Doh! Someone else is showing his age! :(
You guys have no sense of history. This looks like a prototype for an Orgasmatron to me.
If you stick a TV and a computer in there while keeping the price low and It'd make the perfect relaxing chair, at least for me.
cup holders?
Slots for remotes?
Oversized, lard-arse chair?
Crunkled beat me to it - this is bringing back all those pac-man nightmares I had as a kid.
I'd only buy one if it woke me wih a recording of "Lord Vader, we've entered the system," plus some sort of automated helmet/hat dispenser. I hear the same company is coming out with a giant videophone system. You have to kneel inside a large neon ring to take a call.
The orgasmatron (from Sleeper) was a cylindrical booth. This is clearly the solo model. It might have been made by the same company though.
This is just the thing to ignore the wife and kids. Is it bullet/fire/flood proof? Can it be modified into an escape pod if need be?
Well, it would clash with the antique furniture in my home, but it would be perfect for my secret nuclear-powered hideaway (oops).
claustrophobic much?
Little Shop of Armchairs, anyone?
Curved LCD? Nah! This thing needs 2 synchronised projectors (DLP?) on either side of the headrest there to give you a nice 120 degree "Surround Gaming" experience, a half-way decent lapboard and mouse, and/or Joypad/Driving Wheel/Flight Yoke system.
It's already got the sound system (Which, I'm presuming, includes a kick-ass (Literaly?) subwoofer), and there'd be plenty of space in back for a high-end PC and/or consoles.
And it could do double-duty as a personal IMAX cinema. Bonus!
For some reason, it reminds me of the intro/credits to "Mork and Mindy" when Robin Williams busts out of the egg-esque spacecraft(?).
Just build in a tv/game system, toilet and a refrigerator, and you never have to move for the rest of your short life.
disclaimer: avoid pod use after eating large amounts of mexican food or beans
Does anyone else think it looks like a one-eyed robot is swallowing that woman in the second shot?
wow imagine a walk by punch in th nuts only to come up and hit yourself on the on it
oww
If it had the capability to play movies, would be a sweet idea to insert the scene from grudge when the girl peeks in the attic right at the beginning with a cigarette lighter.
Forgot to add "as a prank"
They had these (in a lower-tech form) in the 60s and 70s. They were outfitted with a hi-fi system, so you could listen to your tunes and chill out... They were in every hip pad that could afford them for a while.
And then people said, "Damn, that chair is not comfortable!" and they stopped buying them.
So they waited a few decades, added a little more technology, and viola! A new product that NOBODY has EVER heard of before! WOWEE!
This reminds me of an invention by Dr. Nakamatsu:
http://nakamats.com/english/cxweb/
now after a hard day at work i can return to the womb
If they could wire an Orgasmotron in there this thing would be perfect !
Put a LCD on the pod top and beer cooler within the arm rest and you have the prefect escape pod from the nagging wife.
Add a DVR filled with Oprah and you have freedom from the nagging wife.
Do they come in a his and hers models? I'll take one each.
"Go away! Bait'n!"