Living Room

A company called D-BOX Technologies is promoting machinery that can be added to chairs or planted beneath couches to make them wiggle and shimmy during movies. The chair motions, which are often subtle can also have health benefits. Vibration therapy have a range of health benefits, such as:

• improve circulation
• reduce joint pain
• reduce back pain
• alleviate stress

This is the future, but in the meantime seating accessories such as chair raisers, leg rests & footstools, over-chair tables and support cushions are also available.

What if the design of your furniture wasn’t static, but could change according to your nature, your personality, and more? Imagine a sofa that could transform from an upright seat, to a relaxing lounger just by detecting your mood. This is the future!

Televisions have been at the forefront of SMART home technology, so they are already ‘connected’ and offer nice benefits such as voice activation. So what’s next? Well, LG has a 165-centimeter OLED television that rolls itself up when the viewer turns it off. The ultra-high-definition unit lowers itself into its stand, rolling up like a yoga mat, saving space and transforming the living area into a ‘living’ room.

Smart lights can be controlled from your phone, from switches that you stick onto walls or tables, or even with your voice. So similar to the TV, what is next? Well, one lamp in the 2016 Dyson Awards uses Co2 filters to help minimise air pollution. Could this be the future? Another advancement we can expect to see is a lamp that can actually change the noise level. Deltamorphose is a lamp that is equipped with an acoustic sensor that detects the noise level in the room. The structure grows when the room is loud, absorbing more of the sound, and shrinks when the room is quiet. It is equipped with an acoustic sensor, a circuit board, a motor and pulleys and reacts to the sound intensity.

The Sobro is a crowdfunded coffee table hybrid that offers a built-in speaker, chargers (two USB, two wall plugs), LED lights, and a mini fridge. It’s also got ambient lighting built underneath, so you can set the mood for the room with relative ease.