The Sonic Chair Touch pivots a touchscreen iMac on a huge cushioned speaker

Ensconced in the phonic concavity of a giant speaker while watching a movie on a pivoting touchscreen iMac, this Sonic Chair Touch looks remarkably like a first-class seat on a Pan American space plane in the soon-to-be-released Steve Jobs edit of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Which is apt: this would be a good way to watch Kubrick's classic, if only to hear "Thus Spake Zarathustra" from your bowels on up.

Sonic Chair Touch [Official Site via Born Rich]

[#1 posted by Enochrewt , December 15, 2008 8:03 AM]

And thus the bar has been raised for overpriced hardware bearing an Apple logo.

[#2 posted by technogeek , December 15, 2008 8:43 AM]

Having seen 2001's first run, in full Cinerama on a HUGE screen (Radio City Music Hall or something equivalent), I have to say that the idea of watching it on a small screen just doesn't cut it. A high-class sound system definitely does help, but unless the image goes out to your peripheral vision you aren't getting the full experience.

[#3 posted by michaelportent , December 15, 2008 9:45 AM]

K, who's the wise guy that heisted Andy Warhol's furniture and installed a Mac in it? (Not that he'd care.)

[#4 posted by Grey Eyed Man of Destiny , December 15, 2008 2:20 PM]

@3

Warhol? Check out Eero (#1) and Eero (#2) for the real creators.

http://new.oberlin.edu/newsletters/the_source/detail_page.dot?id=110199&issueUrl=/newsletters/the_source/2008/09/issue_37.dot&pageTitle=September%2010,%202008

We call them "womb chairs" at Oberlin

[#5 posted by Halloween Jack , December 15, 2008 3:06 PM]

Living through the seventies once was plenty enough for me, but I might think differently if I had a couple of nasty staghorn kidney stones to pulverize.

[#6 posted by Downpressor , December 15, 2008 5:20 PM]

not full of stars