The Archelis is a ‘wearable chair’ designed for professionals who cannot afford to take a seat, unless they take it along with them, like surgeons working around an operating table.

Consider any job that involves a lot of standing or walking, like a barista at a coffee shop or bartender at the pub or painter at his easel. Even an everyday commuter on the busy subway could benefit.

The device wraps around a user’s legs, looking like an integrated pair of braces, but locking into position to provide support on demand, even while the user is effectively half-standing.

There are a lot of potential other applications as well, for elderly or infirm persons, but also perhaps, as they are further refined (less bulky), simply for everyday use, letting us all walk around and ‘sit’ whenever we want.

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Sitting all day isn’t great for you, but standing for too long can also cause some physical problems…besides which, standing around for long periods can just be annoying. Whether you’re waiting in a long line or enjoying an outdoor music festival, there are plenty of occasions when having a portable chair would be super handy.

The Sitpack from Mono + Mono is a telescoping seat that folds down into a remarkably tiny carrying package. It starts out at an amazing 6.6 inches tall – small enough to fit into your purse or pocket. To use it, you flip open the sides of the case and pull down the telescoping leg. The leg is adjustable to six sizes, from a small stool size to the height of a standard bar stool.

When deployed, the Sitpack can support a person of up to 150 kilograms (about 330 pounds). Using it lets you relax your muscles and joints a bit, but not so much that you are completely resting. It’s more of an active resting position that requires you to use your leg muscles to stay balanced. This position keeps blood flowing and promotes good posture.

After a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign, the designers are planning to produce the Sitpack entirely in Denmark with a family-owned manufacturing facility.

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It’s a rather widely-accepted fact that sitting all day isn’t great for your health, but standing all day won’t do your body any favors, either. People who stand at work for eight or nine hours a day are at risk for all kinds of musculoskeletal problems.

The Chairless Chair from Swiss company Noonee is a wearable chair of sorts. It attaches to the body at the waist, thighs, knees and shoes. The lightweight aluminum and carbon fiber exoskeleton allows for the full range of movement when it isn’t engaged, so workers can go about their regular business unimpeded.

When it’s time to stop moving and take some weight off of the legs, it’s as simple as settling into a comfortable sitting position and pushing a button that locks the Chairless Chair into that posture. All of the body weight is directed to the heel of the wearer’s shoes. The chair lets the user choose the position that’s most comfortable for them and encourages ergonomically correct posture, further reducing the risk for body stress-related injuries.

This wearable chair doesn’t give the user superpowers or increase their muscle strength in any way; it just takes the strain off of their lower extremities to combat muscle fatigue, poor posture, and long-term musculoskeletal damage. Noonee pictures the Chairless Chair being useful in a wide variety of settings, but for now their focus is on getting it into factories where workers have to perform various functions while standing for an entire shift.

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