Canon's main business is cameras, but the company also has time to invest in other products that, despite being rather conceptual, can be just as striking and interesting as their products. Canon EOS-R5 or latest proposals. Especially since some are very oriented to provide solutions to problems or everyday situations. The last of them is Posture fit.
A camera to monitor your posture when sitting
The latest from Canon is not a new super-resolution camera, nor is it a model focused on video issues, although it is a product that takes advantage of the brand's experience in sensors and image capture. The name of his new product, although it really is one of those conceptual proposals, is Posture Fit.
This cute egg-shaped device with a lens on top (it looks a bit like the characters in Among Us, doesn't it?) is designed to monitor the user's posture when sitting at his desk to work. In this way, if it detects that it is not good for your health, it could alert you to change or adopt a much healthier one. And yes, this could also apply when doing other non-work activities, such as playing video games.
The operation is very simple and practically does not differ from what we could have already seen with other proposals of the style. Posture Fit uses the integrated camera to see what the user's posture is while sitting at their desk. To do this, yes, the camera must be on it and at a point that allows it to have adequate visibility of the user itself.
From there, through a series of algorithms and data previously established by Canon, the camera is able to know if that unhygienic posture that you keep may or may not cause you problems. Because as the company itself indicates, maintaining a bad posture in a timely manner is not bad. The problem is when it is maintained for a prolonged period of time. Because that's when it begins to generate stiffness that can end almost chronic muscle pain.
In addition to said posture analysis, this new Canon device would also have the ability to encourage getting up from the chair to move around a bit. The how is also something very easy to achieve, it is enough for him to know that for a period of 60 minutes he has been capturing it while he was sitting at the desk. Something that, for example, devices like the Apple Watch does by taking advantage of its motion sensors.
Whether it detects that you are in a bad posture or that you have been sitting for a long time, the camera begins to emit a series of noises as it sways and "dances" to attract attention. A fun way to achieve it along with that striking design.
Devices for a new era
With all this situation that we are experiencing, with work from home gaining presence and with users who have to adapt to a different way of life than the one they had until now, the truth is that it will be very normal for many devices of this type to arrive .
Each one will approach the problem in a different way, but they will all look for the same thing: to help the user to be comfortable and productive. Something that when working from home costs much more because we tend to think that we can work directly sitting on the sofa or even the bed, that all that office furniture is not necessary, etc. But the truth is that no, when you work you always have to look for the greatest possible comfort.
Of course, one of the challenges of these products such as Canon's Posture Fit will be that of privacy. In this case neither the background nor the user's face are shown. The camera picks up only the posture, but nothing else. Although there are more details that they will have to investigate to see if this ends up being a real product that can be bought or will remain as another concept.