The problem is a long-standing one: many people work in offices, doing sedentary jobs, often in front of a computer. How to be able to do healthy physical activity even when you cannot because you are forced to sit? Designers Ines Kaag and Desiree Heiss of Bless have come up with the answer-in a playful way but by making it happen and making it work.
Take out your work frustrations–at work!
Do you think about it? Now you don’t have to restrain yourself from punching your computer that doesn’t want to print that document for you: to use it rather you have to punch it. The letter keys in fact correspond to various gymnasium tools, especially punching bags that want nothing more than to be punched. Each corresponds to a letter and a symbol. You tap them and the letters appear on the monitor.
“We wanted to cross the line between office work and physical work,” said the two designers, “We wanted one to be exhausted at the end of the day from mental work but also from physical work.”
No doubt they succeeded.