About

LEX Wearable Chair is a product created by Astride Bionix. The LEX is a pair of stilts one straps on to their body which then support the person when they move to a sitting position. After Tech Insider tweeted about the product in September of 2019, Twitter users commented on and mocked the product for appearing to be uncomfortable and silly looking.

History

On August 5th, 2018, Astride Bionix posted a video explaining how the LEX worked, touting how it could allow a person to sit almost anywhere with perfect posture (shown below). One month later, the company launched a Kickstarter for the LEX,^[1] with the price of the LEX itself going at $338. The project made over $143,000 from 352 backers.

Online Presence

On September 18th, 2019, Tech Insider^[2] tweeted a video of the chair, gaining over 3,800 retweets and 12,000 likes (shown below). They had tweeted video of the chair before,^[3] but the clip had not gone viral until the September 2019 post.

As the video spread on Twitter, it inspired commentary and jokes about the design of the product, as people felt it looked silly. User @andyblewis joked, "I was promised jetpacks and flying cars not a weird metal tail," gaining over 1,200 retweets and 5,400 likes (shown below, left). User @Fred_Delicious joked, "The only problem with this is the short pause while you take it off to have sex with 20 supermodels" (shown below, right). The chair was also covered by BoingBoing.^[4]

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