Honfay Lui’s “Incubator” workstation offers a seat, a keyboard, a monitor, shelving, and space to put a coffee, a snack and some flair. The idea is to strap in the employees and then slide the entire unit into a sort of giant blade server until 5 p.m. The seat cusion may be removed for use as a flotation device, and reveals a toilet beneath. Tampering with the smoke detector is a federal offense.
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The lack of sunlight bleaches the worker’s skin white, as seen here, making them extra sensitive to UV rays. The worker is then afraid to leave the building altogether, resulting in a 1.7% gain in productivity.
The thing looks cool, but it seems the designer has no concept of how the human body works. That thing is would be a torture chamber to sit in. Forget about using the keyboard or ever feeling your legs again.
As we can see, the natural tendency to curl into the foetal position has been pronounced in our test subject.
Heh, I wonder if that’s part of the charm, Knifie. Atrophied bodies require very little food energy. Saves trips to the cafeteria or the washroom…
It sort of reminds me of some of the factory scenes from the documentary Manufactured Landscapes.
BLADE SERVER … that’s brilliant!
My 1st thought if I see these in a row, is to tip them over like human dominos
How are people supposed to access the bookshelves while the workstation is in its slot? Other than that, this is a morbidly nice way to reduce elbowroom and personal space.
Precisely the best design to induce crippling spinal problems in everyone except the one person on the planet who is the same size as the conceptual ergonomic person.
Where do you put the flair? I don’t see it.
I’m pretty sure I had nightmares about this when I was a kid.
Irony
I actually clicked on the link and was amazed by the amount of people that spent time “designing” workstations instead of being productive like the people illustrated in their design.
at 1st I saw the comments about ergonomics and thought that this thing could be adjustable. Then I thought why build these designs when a desk, a chair and a cube would do.
I’d like one of those, if it was barely modular and ergonomically sensitive. I mean, the ability to safely use the space above the computer desk to store more useless junk is very appealing…
Add wheels and a motor and I’m sold.
Does anyone else see that as a scary future? Bound into a small box, unable to move, because people are crammed all around us.
Every now and then, whenever I’d see someone break a chair over someone’s head on TV or at the movies, I’d wonder, “Who would I do that to, if ever I did break a chair over someone’s head?” Well, now I know: the designer of this.