Chair

The world-record price for a camping chair more than doubled this week when Christie's Hong Kong sold a 17th Century Chinese Folding Horseshoe-Back Jiaoyi for $8.5 million, far exceeding the highest price previously fetched by a Chinese Jiaoyi.

With the work-from-anywhere trend currently on fire, Belgian engineer Andreas De Smedt presents a go-anywhere mobile workstation called the "Chair." The backpack-compatible folding director's chair carries its own built-in flex desk.

Many hikers use trekking poles, plus they carry a folding camp chair in their backpack. The TrekChair is designed to both save space and reduce weight, by integrating the poles into the chair's frame.

The cool new tech keeps coming at CES 2021, and gaming firm Razer has joined the party. It's showing off upgrades to its flagship Blade laptop line, as well as an immersive gaming chair concept that features a 60-inch rollout OLED display.

If there's one group of athletes we'd trust for advice on long-endurance butt-sitting, it's professional gamers, so when AndaSeat offered us the chance to try out its Fnatic Edition gaming chair, we jumped at it.

Sportswear giant Puma has teamed up with gaming gear company Playseat to develop the Playseat|Puma game seat for e-sport athletes.

​​Marrying comfort with portability is a challenge for all outdoor gearmakers. Canada’s Hillsound Equipment attempt to find this sweet spot centers on a clever two-in-one telescopic mechanism that serves to keep the stool stable and quickly transform into a compact package for easy carry. ​

The HoverChair might take slightly more work to pack onto your back than other folding chairs, but promises supreme levels of comfort with a hanging design, breathable materials and an optional foot hammock to rest those weary legs. ​​

​​We’ve all felt the discomfort of tired legs and nowhere to sit, short of the cold hard ground. The Bip chair is the latest compact chair crafted for this very dilemma, promising an ultra-light weight package for comfortable carrying and an easy pop-out design when fatigue sets in. ​

We’ve seen camping chairs that revolve 360 degrees or warm up your behind, but really, the only thing you need it to do is be comfortable and pack up small. The Go Chair claims to do both of those things, supporting up to 100 times its own weight before folding down to the size of a water bottle.

Imagine if anytime, anywhere you felt a little fatigued in the legs you could simply lean back and take a load off? The developers of Lex are working towards such a future with a folding exoskeleton that turns into an ergonomic chair in just a few seconds.

Part chair, part hammock, the SkyFloat adventure chair could be your ultimate travel companion. It packs up small, carries anywhere and strings up easily into a zero-gravity-style hammock chair wherever you are. Hang it from a single point and while away the hours in a cozy suspended lounge.