This device is designed to promote proactive sitting

Officiser

Typically, an office employee would sit seven hours or more, and other than the real active three hours, the rest of 21 hours remain sedentary lifestyle. And since it’s next to impossible to fight our sedentary lifestyles, the newly unveiled Officiser aims to tackle the absence of movement while sitting, rather than the time spent sitting.

Touted as the “world’s first comprehensive office health management device,” Officiser was designed to promote “proactive sitting” by maximizing the small movements in our daily lives. It is made to fit under a desk and allow users to be active while sitting. By simply gliding in a push and pull motion or completing bidirectional movements, which will stimulate diverse leg muscles, users will burn calories.

Officiser’s Kickstarter campaign is looking to raise AU$85,000 by March 14, 2016.According to the Officiser creators, these easy and simple movements are all it takes to stimulate blood circulation. Users can also do ankle stretches and heel pulls, which will stimulate calves, and connected joints and muscles.

The product works in tandem with a companion app which will engage users to exercise more, while also helping them develop healthy habits, such as drinking more water.

Officiser’s Kickstarter campaign is looking to raise AU$85,000 by March 14, 2016, with shipments starting in October.

This, however, is not the first device designed to fight the “sitting disease” — in July 2014, FitnessCubed’s under-desk elliptical trainer called Cubii managed to blast past its goal (also) at Kickstarter.