You’ve read the articles, seen the tweets and heard the news on talk radio – sitting is the new smoking. Bloodclots, organ damage, spine degeneration – sitting all day is as bad for you… but those stand up desks aren’t for you. They really aren’t for a lot of people. They sound great in concept – but can you really code all day in the stand-up position? Really?
Kentucky designer, Wayne Yeager, has come up with a compromise – the Lean Desk. Unlike sitting, it gets you up on your feet, but unlike standing, it takes 25% of your body’s weight off your feet.
Yeager has been cranking these out by hand and has launched a Kickstarter campaign to bring these into mass production. Compared to the commercial standing desks out there, the price is more than reasonable and the product is simply more practical. Standing desks are hard on your back and when you hurt, you lose your ability to be productive. Coders and geeks around the world, rejoice! The lean desk is here and people seem to love it (check out the video below).
The Lean Chair has already met double its funding goal on Kickstarter, but still has a few early bird options left to grab. The campaign ends in a little over two weeks.
You can follow the designer on Facebook, Twitter and on his website.
