This device is shaped like a chair with attached slippers. The user places their feet into the slippers, and sits on the chair. Their weight powers a mechanism that uses cams to wriggle their toes individually up and down in order like a mexican wave. When they have reached the bottom of the mechanism's vertical travel, the wriggling stops.
-- pocmloc, Dec 08 2011

//like a mexican wave// http://www.doctorsh...?xg_source=activity
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This technology must only be used for good.
-- normzone, Dec 08 2011


If I wiggle my toes, can it repressurize my broken, sinking office chair?
-- RayfordSteele, Dec 08 2011


So like you're "drumming" your fingers impatiently only with your toes?

I'll bun that.
-- doctorremulac3, Dec 08 2011


I'm afraid this can only end in calamity.
-- swimswim, Dec 08 2011


[+]
-- swimswim, Dec 08 2011


This would be very useful for..well, it would just be very useful.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Dec 08 2011


This makes me wonder how people have had their toes wiggled in the past
-- hippo, Dec 09 2011


Can't... stop... must... bun... [+]
-- Grogster, Dec 09 2011


Gosh, thanks; I never know what to get Aunt Phoebe for Christmas, but this year's a cinch.
-- mouseposture, Dec 09 2011


Include an optional scalp massager attachmeny and I'll buy two!

Does it come in an extra tall version with a step ladder? For long toe-wiggling sessions?
-- not_only_but_also, Dec 10 2011


The mechanisms should be cross-coupled between different chairs.

It should also be made possible to raise your cow orker's chair by active toe-wiggling.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Dec 12 2011


Last night, I had a dream about banjos.
-- Alterother, Dec 13 2011


Well you're from Maine, right?
-- swimswim, Dec 13 2011


[MB] Some sort of IP standard for networked toe-wiggling/chair elevation messages is needed
-- hippo, Dec 13 2011


// Well you're from Maine, right? //

Yes, I am, but the banjo is not our traditional yokel instrument (that would be a toss-up between the fiddle and the Moose-Harp). I was simply bringing it up because it seemed oddly relevant to this discussion.
-- Alterother, Dec 13 2011


I have to say that I actually have heard of a man with only one arm, who rigged up a device to allow him to strum his banjo with his foot.
-- pocmloc, Dec 13 2011


I knew it was relevant.
-- Alterother, Dec 13 2011



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