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The rumble down under

Posted: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 5:23 PM by Will Femia
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Technologically enhanced furniture was everywhere at CES. Lots of massage chairs and gaming chairs with built in speakers. There was also a segment of interactive chair (more real virtuality) that was meant to make your television viewing more immersive by shaking you with bass notes.

The Buttkicker is an external system you can put under the leg of your couch that will rumble you with every explosion and gun shot. I sat in a chair that had the system built in. It was comfortable and kind of fun but I'm not sure I'm missing not having one.


I took this shot of the i-Fi chair because it reminded me of the Maxell ad (at the time it was blasting Led Zepellin's Black Dog). The rep roped me into sitting in it for a while. This uses the audio signal as opposed to a motor like the Buttkicker. It also has a range of twirly knobs set into the arm rest to control how much and in what manner you want to vibrate when the jet plane flies across the screen.

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You forgot about the D-box Chair. A chair with hydraulics, a chair that pitches right, left, heaves, tilts based on the action in the movie, and they inked deals with Fox and Disney to imbed their motion codes on blu0ray software!

I sat mesmerized watching King Kong, in a chair swinging back and forth...incredible....the 4th sense - motion!

Matt James, Las Vegas, NV (Sent Friday, January 11, 2008 12:22 AM)



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