What makes a chair a chair?

In case you re as clueless as I was, here are a couple definitions. Too bad our feeble minds can't comprehend *sad face*

1) a seat, esp. for one person, usually having four legs for support and a rest for the back and often having rests for the arms.

2) something that serves as a chair or supports like a chair: The two men clasped hands to make a chair for their injured companion.


Okay, I scrounged up a picture of a chair for us to wrap our minds around. This should help, right?

Umm, what?

Yes, that's a chair, at least to the Taiwanese woman who made it. It amazes me how creative we continue to be. Here's a more convincing image of the "breathing chair" as she calls it.

The article says the chair's creator, Yu-Ying Wu, made it so that she could place less stress on her knees when she stands up from it. I think she might need more help that just a chair. Nevertheless, I'd like to try out one of these and see if there's any "wrong" way to sit on it. I'd even like to buy one, but, as it's made from some eco-friendly robo-foam, or something like that, it ought to cost mad crazy money. Here's the link to the original article, since I don't feel like rehashing the rest of the write-up.

Square chair in action!