The Tao Chair lets you work out without ever getting up

The Tao Chair is like an Eames Lounge chair but with fitness sensors running through its veins. When its owner sits down, he or she can do an array of core exercises using the chair's armrests. With enough force, you can do curls, presses, and leg lifts, all depending on where you put your arms and legs. In the right armrest is a display that measures how many calories you've burned while you sit down, and your overall routine is tracked using an app that'll be released for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. It also combines with the Tao WellShell to make for a

Tao doesn't pretend that its chair will ever provide a full workout. You'll still need to get up and maybe go outside to get some kind of full benefit. But it's something. For now, though, the chair is a prototype, but Tao is confident in releasing it in the near future.