Every Office Should Have Nissan Self-Parking Chairs

Just as the name suggests, these office chairs move by themselves, so you don't have to put them back after a long meeting. It's so stupid that it's genius and Nissan could corner the market on office chairs by the end of the decade.

Obviously, the idea comes from Japan, a country obsessed with overcomplicating things. They make toilet bowls with built-in Wi-Fi and programs that you can marry instead of a real woman. So naturally, pushing a chair by hand feels like hard work to them, and they need robots to do it.

Nissan's smart chairs are guided by four motion-detecting cameras that give them a bird's-eye view of the room. At the clap of the hands, they simultaneously tuck themselves back into their rightful positions. Within seconds, the meeting room and cubical office are as tidy as a samurai's sword collection.

The top is a regular chair from a famous Japanse furniture store called Okamura. However, the bottoms are filled with electronics that can move and rotate it 360 degrees. A computer analyzes the camera feed and controls all the chairs in the room via Wi-Fi, just like cars are guided into parking spots using their sensors.

Unfortunately for those who want to spruce things up around the office, the Intelligent Parking Chair is not going into mass production. It's just part of a marketing campaign designed to highlight how useful self-parking cars can be. Nissan offers this feature on anything from the little Note to minivans. Not surprisingly, the same company wants to take advantage of Japan's "laziness" by providing an autonomous car this decade.

It should be noted that it's not a CGI gimmick. Between February 19 and 23, Nissan's global headquarters in Japan will stage an exhibition to demonstrate these chairs.