Now, you can relax in your rocking chair and charge your iPhone/iPad and even listen to your favourite music with the help of fine quality speakers fitted on this chair. As reported by Daily Mail, a Swiss based company Micasa Lab has developed a rocking and docking chair appropriately called iRock.
This chair uses a built-in generator that transforms gentle swaying into electricity. iRock is made of Swedish pine and it has all the traditional features of a rocking chair and comes equipped with an iPad stand. The iPad rests conveniently on a stand built in to the chair’s arm rest. For enjoying the music while rocking in the chair, the backrest of the painted wood rocking chair also features built-in speakers.
The makers of this claim that just an hour of easy swaying will charge your iPad to 35 per cent, and it is also compatible with other Apple devices like iPhone. However, Android devices cannot be connected at the moment. The chair uses a winding mechanism combined with a set of gears to create enough force to drive the generator, which the development team says was a challenge to make energy efficient enough for practical use.
This chair is still in development, but Micasa Lab, the Zurich-based design studio behind the chair, give it an estimated retail price of €1,300, which is pretty steep at the moment and would be unaffordable especially for the pensioners.
Dimesnions of iRock :
| Length: | 1200 mm |
| Height: | 1150 mm |
| Weight | 18 kg |
| Material: | varnished woo |
