Self-Leveling Executive Chair

When attending office meetings with new colleagues, it is difficult to establish the relative importance of each person in the room...

I propose the following solution, the 'self-levelling' excecutive chair. Modern office chairs are height-adjustable by means of a pneumatic mechanism and a height setting lever. These could be modified quite simply to include a lithium battery, GPS altimeter, a powerful servo and a wireless PDA complete with infrared transponder.

The finished chair could be programmed for each user allowing them to customised their comfort preferences and ,of course, their company position.

On encountering a sub-ordinate, your chair will rise, indicating your elevated status. In the presence of senior management the chair would slowly descend, relative to those of your superiors. Naturally, a visit from the CEO would cause a split-pin in the mechanism to break, leaving you prostate on the floor.

On special occasions, e.g. IPO, the chairs could be programmed to deliver a mexican wave.

p.s. As a wild-life expert recently noted, in any social gathering of Baboons, position is important. This idea is much simpler and avoids having to paint your bottom purple...