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Autonomous Zen Work Pod

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Autonomous, makers of notable office furniture, is now selling pre-orders for their mobile work-at-home office. It’s a complete structure designed and built to accommodate a private work space away from your actual home (that is, if you have the space for the footprint). As a complete setup, the structure also comes with Autonomous’ SmartDesk 2 and Kinn Chair.

Starting prices are as low as $5400, but don’t expect those to last as the pre-order seems to be going in phases with each phase jumping up in price significantly. You can check out the details here.

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The ErgoChair by Autonomous

Rain Noe over at Core77 posted about the ErgoChair by Autonomous and the idea of it caught my attention. Autonomous, a robotics company, is trying to use what they've learned in that industry and apply it to chair production. Their goal was to make an ergonomic office chair, like the Aeron, for a price point around $100. If you can believe it can be done, that's only a fraction of what the Aeron costs with the same comfort level. I'm skeptical, but for $199, maybe I should try.

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