What do you, as a human, do when your battery’s down? You rest, you sit, you recover, right? Well, quirky designer Muddycap designed what I can only describe as one of the most visually punny chairs ever. The Low Battery Chair comes with a design that most people know too well. It looks exactly like the low-battery icon on your phone. The battery itself forms the base and backrest, while the battery level acts as the cushion. Clever, but not as clever as the fact that the chair comes in two versions!
The two versions, in yellow and red respectively, pay tribute to the two scary battery notifications – one when it’s low, and another when it’s critical. Both chairs have different heights, corresponding to the battery level too! So choose the chair you want (probably based on how tired you feel) and sit on it, so that you can recharge your own battery and go about your day!
Designer: Muddycap
Muddycap is responsible for some of the most bizarrely brilliant chairs I’ve seen on the internet. The IG account has a way of turning practically anything into a chair, imagining everyday objects, icons, and experiences into seating. The Low Battery Chair is perhaps my new favorite (after the Soul Chair we featured earlier this year), just because of the symbolism associated with humans and the phrase ‘low battery’ being synonymous for feeling tired and needing to rest your legs.
The dual chair design is clever too – the yellow one is slightly higher, working more like a high stool, while the red one lets you sit lower, and maybe more comfortably. The chairs feature a molded outer layer (probably plastic?), with the pouffe-shaped leather cushions placed strategically in the center. Now if only Muddycap made a ‘Fully Charged’ chair with a high cushion in green…
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