Alright, baby boomers: We younger generations have been ripping up your handed-down traditions as fast as we can lay hands on them. We've turned the TV into Netflix, museums into pop-up experiences, replaced Woodstock with Burning Man, and we started putting avocado on toast just to troll you. But there's one institutionalized household object that has sat under the radar for far too long while we were busy redefining culture.
I'm talking, of course, about the chair. We have settled for the common chair ever since cavemen quit sitting on rocks. It's been the same design for centuries: legs, seat, arms, back. Sometimes they've made awkward little improvements like putting wheels on the bottom or making it into a recliner. The recliner part is actually a nice idea, but it involves structural construction of steel and springs in there. This makes it heavy to move, especially into an upstairs apartment.
But you're on the right track: multipurpose furniture. Furniture that morphs with your lifestyle, instead of the hard, rigid shapes we've endured as they enforce their ideas of how we relax and how to shape our living rooms. That's right, we're coming for your chairs! The huge, ugly, overstuffed grandma recliner hulking in the corner, that artificial sectional sofa that looks like an unfinished Tetris board, and that tacky rattan wicker chair you picked up at a flea market in the '70s.
The Beanbag Revolution
The Moon Pod is morphing furniture to match any attitude. It really is a big bean bag, made from much more modern materials than those used the last time beanbags were fashionable. No more leaking styrofoam pellets or looking like a squashed bug. The Moon Pod is solid, yet flexible, converting into a recliner, a nap sack, and a proper chair depending on whether you want to lie back and veg, cat-nap, or sit up and pay attention.
Moon Pods are lightweight, easy to kick around, and easy just to bonelessly flop on at the end of an exhausting day taking back culture for the new millennium. It's constructed out of a dense, high-friction material that doesn't shift like styrofoam pellets but is absurdly soft and flexible. It's just about impossible to feel anxious or stressed in the embrace of a Moon Pod, even as you scroll a newsfeed on your phone watching the world burn.
The guy who made the Moon Pod is John Fiorentino, a Kickstarter entrepreneur who previously designed the Gravity Blanket, a heavy blanket designed to feel more like a warm hug. Together with the Moon Pod, clearly this man's mission in life is just to make the whole world feel comfy-cozy. He's like the Bob Ross of furniture.
The Future Is Now
Maybe we didn't get around to jetpacks and flying cars, but we're got a lot of progress nailed now. Like Kickstarter for instance: Once upon a time a company like Sears Roebuck just made stuff and sold it to us, and whatever they had, we bought. Kickstarter is such an improvement on that model. It's crowd-sourced commerce. That's how we roll in the 21st century.
Don't settle for the old ways of doing anything, no matter how much it seems like you can't improve. We've grown too complacent. We need change even when it isn't an improvement, just to wake things up and remind us that we could have a different world, which we are gradually designing one Kickstarter at a time. Don't get a Moon Pod just because you read a good Moon Pod review. Get a Moon Pod because it's time we struck back at the ancient furniture tyranny that has stood in place since the Victorian era when people couldn't lounge on Moon Pods because their corsets and hoop skirt dresses made them too rigid. We don't want to live like that, do we?
We owe it to ourselves to produce new revelations in modern design, which is why we invented the fidget spinner. Simple toys like that are what was missing, and the simple ideas behind them. We don't have to make anything more complicated than it needs to be.
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