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LS did not like Tom's chair
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Plus it would be way too expensive for the mass market. So he only picked Tom not on his business plan but because he'd sold some nail files to Walmart .
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The winning of this whole series was pretty much all just on the one episode, the interview task and going over each candidates CV with a fine toothcomb. You've got to hand it to Sugar, sucking us into watching a format we know and love but then awarding the prize based on a new one show format within the original one.
Tom needs to move on....
agreed, no need to use sensors or expensive equipment just buy a herman miller aeron or the humanscale freedom and job done.
The whole concept of measureing weakness in muscles and then prescribing exercises to strengthen them is a poor idea. Backpain is created from poor posture, not muscle weakness.
Secondly Tom's method requires end users to be proactive to get rid of backpain, any inventor will tell you that nobody is going to do that, you're better off creating a chair that just sorts out the posture so you never get backpain.
The problem is that the herman miller aeron and the humanscale freedom are very expensive. retail around £500 each so the average 20K p.a. worker is never going to be sat on one. So if you can invent an ergonomic chair for the mass market, retailing for £150 tops, and is close to the aeron or the freedom as possible, then it could be viable.
Yes as Johnny Rotten once said ... 'Ever get the feeling you've been cheated'
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DAMN YOU SUGAR !!!
Same thing, only different.
I have got the feeling that Tom may actually rue the day he did win, because LAS may be intent on pushing the file to a wider market, rather than allowing Tom to push his "blue sky" ideas which seem his biggest plus.