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ErgoSensor monitor designed to help improve your posture

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ErgoSensor concept (via Phillips)

 

Sitting and working at a computer all day takes its toll on our posture. Seriously, right now while I’m writing this, I’m hunched over at about a 45 degree angle and that can’t be good. So, for those of us who need help with this issue Phillips has designed a new monitor that lets us know were slouching and provides a procedure to correct it. The 24 inch LED monitor (1920 X 1080) is equipped with Phillips ‘ErgoSensor’ which measures the users position in relation to the monitor and provides feedback on distance to screen (optimal viewing distance), as well as neck-posture detection using an embedded sensor located in the display’s top bezel.

 

The sensor will alert you when you’re either too far/close to the screen, if your posture is wrong, and whether you’ve been at the display to long without taking a break (a coffee break?). The monitor also has some other unique functions such as powering off the monitor if nobody has been in front of it for a certain amount of time. This provides a power reduction of 80%, and there is a kill switch on the monitors back that lets you power-down to 0 watts (like the monitors off button on front?). The ErgoSensor monitor features standard adjustments as well i.e.: height, tilt and rotation. No word as of yet on the display’s cost, but my guess is in the $200 to $300 USD price range.

 

Cabe

http://twitter.com/Cabe_e14


Engineering On Friday takes the ErgoSense for a spin, annoyed by it.

  • in reply to DAB

    DAB,

     

    Or take frequent breaks away from the computer keyboard. Humans were not meant to sit and type all day.

     

    Though, I find that is a major portion of my day.

     

    As I read your advice, I sat up straight.

     

    Cabe

    http://twitter.com/Cabe_e14

     

    ps. See the cartoon I added to the post. I think it shows how we will handle the ErgoSense monitor.

  • in reply to DAB

    Great advice and I think that technology is promising.  Speaking from experience, I think that until one starts experiencing problems due to chronic bad ergonomics it's easy to ignore.  I never considered working on my laptop on couch or slouching in chair at my workstation would lead to problems as I got older.  Hopefully technology like this can make folks more aware before they start having problems.

  • Hi Cabe,

     

    I have watched people use bad posture when using computers for decades.  As you noted, your back hurts, you have tight muscles and probably the early signs of carpel tunnel.

     

    I urge everyone to get rid of the reclining chair.  Set up your computer at the proper position for your height and use good typing technique.

     

    I have seen a lot of people suffer through carpel tunnel surgery.  It was not an easy time.  Plus I have seen others develop spondylosis of the neck, which is also very painful.

     

    So do yourself a favour.  Sit up straight, look the straight up at the monitor and only use your fingers to type on the keyboard.  No other part of your arms should touch anything.

    If you do not follow this procedure, you are in for a long period of suffering and it is really painful.

     

    Just a thought,

    DAB