desk chair stat monitor

I’m addicted to the stats from my bike computer. I’m addicted to my blog stats. I’m addicted to stats at work. I’m pretty much just addicted to stats.

I want more stats. This got me thinking. Put a Wii style accelerometer in your chair. It can sense your movement on the chair. It can wifi information to your PC to plot your day. It would be able to tell when you were seated, moving, away from your desk etc… At the end of the day you could look at your chart and see that you spend 12% of your day away from your desk.

As well as the soul nourishing stats this could also provide health benefits. A tray icon could flash a warning when it’s been 2 hours since you last left your seat - so you don’t get a seized up body through inaction - or DVT.

Productivity advice could give the opposite message - “you have spent 3 hours so far today away from your desk - lazy boy!“.

Tiny games like minesweeper could be controlled by jiggling about in your seat. Or messages like “you have burned 48 calories by zooming around on your seat today“. These guys have to add this to next years models.