Kinect armchair takes laziness to its logical conclusion

Sit back, and relax.

For the rest of your life.

Quite possibly the coolest Kinect hack yet has come from Microsoft itself – in the form of this Kinect-powered motorized armchair, built using the soon-to-be-released Kinect PC SDK. With a flick of the wrist, the chair reclines, adjusts, and even becomes mobile, all while you laze about. If this blatant incarnation of slothdom isn’t the reason technology made it to this point, nothing is.

Behold!

Alright, so the operation of this thing is still a little cumbersome, and really doesn’t look all that usable, let alone pleasant. But think of the future! A future in which we all hover around in little chairs like Modok. That’s a future worth living for. That’s a future worth waiting for.