Review Steelcase Gesture: Would you spend Rs 60000 on a new age chair? I ... - Indian Express ~ Electronic Gadgets

Nandagopal Rajan : New Delhi, Sat Dec 21 2013, 12:00 hrs

A typical Gesture chair owner will be someone who is using a smartphone and a tablet while sitting in front of the PC or laptop.

Have you ever tried using a tablet while seated on a so-called computer chair? Well, you can use the tablet, but the entire posture would be awkward. You will either rest the tablet on your lap and look down, or hold it straight and get a neck pain within minutes. What if the chair could give you a posture to lean back and enjoy the content on the tablet, all the while providing support for your arms to hold the device?

This is the kind of chair that Steelcase, a century-old office furniture giant, is trying to give the world. Their new range of chairs are fluid and made to accommodate the new postures that we are all getting used to thanks to our new technology inclinations. I tested their new Gesture chair to see if technology can actually make living with our new devices easier.

The postures

The Gesture has been designed for multi-device scenarios. A typical Gesture owner will be someone who is using a smartphone and a tablet while sitting in front of the PC or laptop. I just had to look in the mirror to find such a person.

Gesture chair

The most common problem I have is during long calls is that I need to support my arms and a rest my head on the phone. When I do this on a conventional chair, my body stoops towards the left in an awkward angle. In the Gesture, you can raise the height of the both the arms and get your elbow up to your chest height to make calls easier. Lift both the arms and you have the best angle to consume content from either the smartphone or tablet with the devices being at your eye level. The arms can also swivel in and our offering another range of support options, like when you are typing. I found the arms a great place to rest the tablet while working on the PC. So far so good.

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