With This Wearable Chair, You Can Sit Anywhere At Anytime

Harin - Sep 20, 2019

A wearable chair that you strap to your bum could be the solution for people who find there are not enough chairs in the world.

A video circulating on Twitter has caught people’s attention. In the video, a man can be seen walking around while having a weird metallic attachment on his bottom.

And then the sits down, and a chair pops out from the weird metallic thing.

That thing is actually called Lex, a wearable chair from Singapore-based Astride Bionix. The device seems to have become viral for the past few weeks after the video on Twitter.

The whole setup of the chair is just a rubber/cloth harness with a pair of rods made from space-grade aluminum. Users can wear the harness over their bottom and buckle up in the front. The rods will be dangling from your butt to the backs of your knees.

Lex-Wearable-Chair — The whole setup of the chair is just a rubber/cloth harness with a pair of rods made from space-grade aluminum.

Don’t mistake Lex as some kind of weird art project as it has a purpose when you bend over. The rods’ working mechanism allows them to bend backward when you do so, allowing you to have a seat in mid-air, just like a scene in a Hollywood martial arts movie.

The wearable chair can bear up to 120kg while it only weighs one kilogram.

Astride Bionix, the company behind the product, promises that it will become “an exoskeleton” to fix your posture when you sit, enhancing “posture, comfort, and life.”

The Lex is calling for funding through Kickstarter and Indiegogo. The money it has received on Kickstarter has now reached around Rs 74 lakh while it has received Rs 88 lakh on Indiegogo. The chair is available for Rs 28,000.