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It looks like a big dog bed.

I thought that too canadian!

That and I could see myself falling over the low back

For $1200 it better not be as uncomfortable as it looks.

My back hurts looking at that thing.

not.

Aside from the so called "recycled" polyethylene frame, how is this thing "Eco Friendly"???
sounds like yet another green washed product to me.
Boo!

I rather like it to look at.........but EcoPod?

I get rather sick of marketing jumping on the green bandwagon. The use of "eco" in this context devalues the concept of "ecologically friendly"

Doesn't look comfortable at all. Doesn't look ecological at all.

It does look like a pod -- it looks like if you sit in it the seat will sink, trapping you in it like a big people-eating pod. Then how will you get out of it?

Thank you EcoPod, for revealing to me something worse than bun feet on furniture.

Hot dog legs.

I could see dogs and cats loving this but the back is too low and I hate so many pillows crowding a piece of furniture. Maybe it'd work against the wall in the corner of a room minus two of the pillows.

I love that they took this risk. Although this one is only moderately successful, I do like this idea of restructuring the bean bag.

Bean bags really are comfortable, but always look like this sloppy amorphous blob in any room. It's a bit brillant to think of containing it into a clean-lined structure.

With a change of legs, a plump buckwheat filled bag, and absent the pillows, this beanbag cozy could be hacked into something wonderful.

Is anybody else doing anything innovative with bean bags?

Back support is necessary in a chair. This has none.

Looking at the site, it does have back support. However, it seems a lot like a papasan chair. I have never had a papasan chair, but I sat in one and it was comfortable so I really wanted one. Then time passed, and I realized that was one of those chairs you get in your 20s because it's cheap, kind of easy to move, but it has a look you grow out of, like bean bag chairs. I used to have bean bag chairs as well, not only in the 70s but bought again in the early 90s. I had a cat who really liked that beanbag texture and sound and used it for a place to piss.

Anyway, the chair above is not so absolutely ugly but it is kind of fug of the dorm or college apt. variety. The expense will kill that angle. It strikes me also as some kind of back pain specialty store chairs

I'm not so sick of the partial word eco as I am of the word pod. A pod is a pod. It seems modern/futuristic and inclusive of all needs, but this is a chair. I can appreciate a more truthful ideal of a pod, but I think the word is just play on a lot of items, like people want to be beans, and they will buy products that fulfill that vision.

Here's a big dog bed. More consistent with the word and concept of 'pod.'

http://uk.gizmodo.com/2007/03/27/the_luxury_sleeping_pod.html