Armchair Paradise pod puts you in an embryonic state... almost

With each passing moment we grow ever closer to reaching the year 2193, thus, having some sort of futuristic pod / chair hybrid in your home is likely more acceptable today than yesterday. Nevertheless, we can't recommend the Armchair Paradise to anyone with any level of self-respect with a straight face, though the amenities do seem quite nice. Besides a totally comfortable place to put your tush after a hard day's night, you'll also find a built-in sound system that quite literally envelops you in sound. Unfortunately, pricing information doesn't seem to be readily available, but fast-forward a few decades and you might find out.

[Via CNET]

[TK @ Feb 20th 2008 10:24PM]

Paint it yellow... and someone will buy it!

[Blackstar @ Feb 21st 2008 8:30AM]

Hey look, I guess they answered the question about a human: 'Will it Blend?'

[E71 @ Feb 21st 2008 8:19PM]

Gobble, Gobble!

[PRP @ Feb 20th 2008 10:25PM]

Pricing? I thought everything was going to be free in the future!

[from_me @ Feb 21st 2008 1:37AM]

this thing is cooler...although it's like $10k

http://www.bornrich.org/entry/luxury-sleeping-pod-with-led-lights-and-speakers/

[DarkLightConnection @ Feb 20th 2008 10:26PM]

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

[yoshi @ Feb 20th 2008 11:12PM]

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.

[ari @ Feb 20th 2008 10:26PM]

its kinda like darth vader's pod, except for capitalism and non forced related issues.

[Ed @ Feb 22nd 2008 3:18AM]

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.

[ari @ Feb 24th 2008 7:22PM]

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?

[Darwin @ Feb 20th 2008 10:29PM]

She sure does look relaxed with those heels still on.

[NHAnimator @ Feb 21st 2008 8:23AM]

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?!?

[Gorillamonk @ Feb 21st 2008 11:42AM]

wow...good eye. The pod changes everything it gets its grubby mitts on.

[Aguiluz @ Feb 20th 2008 10:29PM]

OMG... It looks like something that will eat me. Obviously, It must have a ventilator of sorts!

[Captain Crunkled @ Feb 20th 2008 10:31PM]

Pac-Man's got the taste for blood !

[EdgeOne @ Feb 20th 2008 10:56PM]

Nice one! I was just thinking it looks like an albino Pac-Man regurgitating a woman

[Tow @ Feb 20th 2008 10:33PM]

Play some pron in there and its a jack pod!!!

[Captain Crunkled @ Feb 20th 2008 10:38PM]

whacka whacka whacka whacka

[hemmy @ Feb 20th 2008 10:38PM]

I'm eggstatic about it.

[Samurai Jack @ Feb 20th 2008 10:44PM]

You guys have no sense of history. This looks like a prototype for an Orgasmatron to me.

[thehumanyawn @ Feb 20th 2008 10:45PM]

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.

[ScooterDe @ Feb 21st 2008 4:46AM]

cup holders?
Slots for remotes?
Oversized, lard-arse chair?

[Fred @ Feb 20th 2008 10:45PM]

Nanoo Nanoo?

[Chris @ Feb 21st 2008 2:13PM]

Wow. Someone is showing their age! ;) But props to Mork. Doh! Someone else is showing his age! :(

[frankXchange @ Feb 20th 2008 10:45PM]

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.

[frankXchange @ Feb 20th 2008 10:55PM]

The orgasmatron (from Sleeper) was a cylindrical booth. This is clearly the solo model. It might have been made by the same company though.

[frankXchange @ Feb 20th 2008 10:56PM]

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).

[Chris O'Rourke @ Feb 20th 2008 10:57PM]

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).

[Verbatim9 @ Feb 20th 2008 11:36PM]

Little Shop of Armchairs, anyone?

[Robert Johnston @ Feb 20th 2008 11:59PM]

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!

[demersb @ Feb 21st 2008 12:11AM]

For some reason, it reminds me of the intro/credits to "Mork and Mindy" when Robin Williams busts out of the egg-esque spacecraft(?).

[Hammond X @ Feb 21st 2008 12:14AM]

Just build in a tv/game system, toilet and a refrigerator, and you never have to move for the rest of your short life.

[[a] @ Feb 21st 2008 1:16AM]

disclaimer: avoid pod use after eating large amounts of mexican food or beans

[Kate @ Feb 21st 2008 1:25AM]

Does anyone else think it looks like a one-eyed robot is swallowing that woman in the second shot?

[Ferny25 @ Feb 21st 2008 1:39AM]

wow imagine a walk by punch in th nuts only to come up and hit yourself on the on it


oww

[stupidmonkey @ Feb 21st 2008 1:47AM]

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.

[ZeroCorpse @ Feb 21st 2008 1:47AM]

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!

[sheepbat @ Feb 21st 2008 3:19AM]

This reminds me of an invention by Dr. Nakamatsu:

http://nakamats.com/english/cxweb/

[odemata @ Feb 21st 2008 6:42AM]

now after a hard day at work i can return to the womb

[tehpyro @ Feb 21st 2008 8:36AM]

claustrophobic much?

[fourthletter @ Feb 21st 2008 8:37AM]

If they could wire an Orgasmotron in there this thing would be perfect !

[MeatHead88 @ Feb 21st 2008 5:59PM]

"Go away! Bait'n!"

[James @ Feb 23rd 2008 9:24AM]

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.

[stupidmonkey @ Apr 19th 2008 7:34PM]

Forgot to add "as a prank"