If you’ve always taken the experience of sitting on your chair for granted, never realizing the possibilities of how different it would be if there was a PC built into it and placed right underneath your rear. It’s time to give it a calculated thought. For what you see above is not a chair, of course, it is a chair, but it’s slightly more: it’s a fully-functional desktop PC that’s built right into the seat of this chair (technically just below).
This is not the first time that we are seeing a PC mod, and perhaps not the last either. Amid the most fascinating ones I have seen in the past decade, this has to be the non-existent one, for a good reason. To be a concealed PC, it had to go through some stinker challenges. Be in there in the seat, yet be functional like a desktop PC, and have no dangling wires. How has all that been pulled off, let’s delve deeper into it below:
Designer: Basically Homeless
The information about building this “World’s First Invisible Chair PC” project has been released in a detailed video on YouTube by the creator, Basically Homeless, who believes ‘building PCs is basically expensive LEGOs for men.’ With that thought, it is a verified channel known for DIYing uncanny computer mods and robots amid other generic creations. Being one of those people who really want to sit on the chair with a remote and do… well let the modder tell you what… he has really pulled this off to a level of brilliance where an entire functional PC setup – with motherboard, GPU and the SMPC – is consolidated inside of your chair and both do their primary job with undisturbed efficiency.
Some would, including me, argue about the fact that some compromises must have been made to conceive a completely hidden-from-sight mod. Not really: this chair PC – if I may – is powered by a Ryzen 7 9800XD desktop processor and an RTX 4060 GPU, both sitting flat next to each other with an SMPC in company. It all fits well within a specially created secret compartment where the seat mechanism meets the underside of the seat cushion supporting material. A special 50mm high cavity is created using aluminum standoffs, where the complete hardware is sandwiched and closed with a 3D-printed housing.
The wonderful thing about this contraption is that it is completely hidden from sight. Of course, if you have seen other gaming/office chairs like this one used for the mod, you will figure out the slight bulge under the seat, but that’s for you. For the unaware, there is no significant difference, and that’s substantiated by the fact that you can lean back all the way in the chair, and it does not impact the parts of the computer you are sitting on. The hot seat can be used with a wireless monitor (if you don’t mind a 10ms latency), else strap on a VR headset instead and connect it to the chair PC and enjoy!
