Well, I did it. I didn’t think I would, at least for a while, but I did it. I bought the big screen LCD TV, I bought the DVD player, I bought the AV receiver and home theater speakers, and I ordered digital cable. It was a sad day for my wallet, but a happy day for me. It’s something that I’ve always wanted - a top notch mini home theater of my own.

I soon found out that there was an issue with controlling all of these devices. Four components makes four remotes. It’s not that four remotes is confusing - it’s annoying. If you need to make an adjustment to your television and all you’ve got is your cable remote, on go the lights, and a search party begins. I needed a universal remote - but a good one, an intuitive one that could bring all of the advanced functionality of my componentry into a simple and centralized place. I turned to Logitech and their Harmony 890 Advanced Universal Remote.

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Furniture doesn’t evolve. A couch is a couch, a chair is a chair, and that’s it. The chairs of 2015 won’t be more technologically advanced than those of today. By default, furniture is basic, and often serves one purpose. A seat is for sitting, a desk is for working, and that’s the end of it.

But that doesn’t mean that this paradigm can’t be changed. A relatively new company that goes by the name of Sumo Lounge has created a product - let’s call it a piece of furniture - that changes shape and usage as much as you change your mind about what size plasma television to buy. Their product, called the Omni, appears to be a simple bean bag chair, but does a bit more, as you’ll see below.

Several afternoons ago, the delivery man places a massive box outside of my doorstep. And this is what was inside:

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Michael Hess with RoadWired wrote and told me that their Skooba Skin is one of “the top-ten finalists for the Cooper-Hewitt (Smithsonian) People’s Design Award, and with only a week left in the voting we are unashamedly telling everyone we know and asking for all the votes we can get (assuming we are deemed worthy, of course). If you feel like taking 30 seconds to give us your vote (it is anonymous), or just to check it out the direct link is here. This is very exciting for us, especially considering the hundreds of very famous, outstanding products we are up against.”

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