Hands-on with the new, Space Age Gravitonus iClubby ergonomic workstation

A  lot  of  journalists  are  viewing  the  new  Gravitonus  iClubby  as a workstation  for gamers, but  in my mind, it’s a lot more than that. Perhaps it’s time to reappraise exactly what a workstation should look like, because after trying it at CES, I want one, and I only spend a very small proportion of my  time  gaming. The  fully  ergonomic seating position, three screens, the  sound  system  and  lighting  and temperature controls makes it the ideal  high  productivity  workstation  for anyone who  spends  long hours  slaving  over  a  hot  keyboard  . At  $7000 it  isn’t  cheap,  but  it’s  VERY  comfortable,  and  I  suspect  the  increased productivity afforded by  the comfort and  increased  concentration  would yield an ROI measured in months, not years, and there’s no price you can put
on a bad back and aching shoulders.
 
I have often found it intriguing that people can spend $50,000 or more on a car, yet sleep  in an uncomfortable bed, or have a  less  than  ideal work-station  set-up, when  they  spend  far more time in the latter environments than the former.

Like many people, including most of Gizmag’s full-timers, I suffer from a bad back –  it didn’t  take me  long sitting in the new iClubby at CES to decide  that  I’d  have  an  iClubby,  or something like it, in the not-too-distant  future. The constant breaks and stretching  from  an  uncomfortable work  environment  simply  eat  away at productive  time  and  output,  and if  it’s how you earn a  living,  then  it makes economic  sense  to create  the most comfortable and hence creative setting possible.

What’s  interesting  about  the iClubby  is  that  it  involves  not  just the screen and seating positions, but with  air  temperature  and  ambient lighting  conditions  adjustable,  plus a  powerful  5.1  surround  sound  also part  of  the  plot,  it  controls most  of the variables in your personal working environment .

The Matrox triple-header is the icing  on  the  cake  –  as we’ve  pointed out  many  times  over  the  last  few years,  the  amount  of  usable  screen real-estate you have available on the desktop  is  almost  directly  proportional  to  productivity,  so with  three screens,  it’s  heaven one  of  our staffers  uses  a Matrox  triple  header and swears by it.

I didn’t spend much time with it, but the  short  time  I did play with  it,  everything worked logically and there’s clearly been a lot of thought gone into things  based  on  the  lessons  learned with the original ergonomic workstation – from the ventilation airstreams through the subwoofer located in these at to ensure you get the feel of your gaming, music, movies etcetera.

Gamers  were  once  characterized by acne and a educationally-induced poverty  but  the  first  generation  of gamers are out there running companies  and using  the digital  skills  they honed over long hours doing business – such people will love the iClubby.

Like I said though, you don’t need to  play  games  to  appreciate  what the iClubby can offer – anyone who earns  their  living  looking  at  a  computer  screen  will  benefit  from  the personal  environment  the  workstation offers. Noel McKeegan.

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