Canon’s main business is cameras, but the company also has time to invest in other products that, despite being rather conceptual, can be the same or more striking and interesting than their Canon EOS R5 or latest proposals. Especially since some are very oriented to give solutions to problems or everyday situations of the day to day. The latest one is Posture Fit.
A camera to monitor your posture when sitting
The latest from Canon is not a new camera with a super resolution or 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 their new product, although it really is one of those conceptual proposals, is Posture Fit .
This cute egg-shaped device with a lens on the top (it looks a bit like the characters from Among Us, doesn’t it?) Is designed to monitor the user’s posture when they sit at their 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 activities that are not work, such as playing video games.
The operation is very simple and practically does not differ from what we could have seen with other proposals of the style. Posture Fit uses the built-in camera to see the user’s posture while sitting at their desk. To do this, of course, the camera must be on it and at a point that allows it to have adequate visibility of the user.
From there, through a series of algorithms and data previously established by Canon, the camera is able to know whether or not that unhygienic posture it maintains could cause 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 is when it begins to generate a stiffness that can end with practically chronic muscle pain.
In addition to such posture analysis, this new Canon device would also have the ability to encourage getting up from your chair to move around a bit . The how is also something very simple to achieve, it is enough for you to know that during a period of 60 minutes you have been capturing it while you were sitting at the desk. Something that, for example, devices like the Apple Watch do taking advantage of their motion sensors.
Whether it detects that you are in a bad posture or that you have been sitting for a long time, the camera starts making a series of noises as it sways and “dances” to attract attention. A fun way to do it with that striking design.
Devices for a new era
With all this situation that we live, with work from home gaining presence and with users who have to adapt to a different way of life than they had until now, the truth is that it will be very normal that many devices of this type arrive .
Each one will face the problem in a different way, but all will seek 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 will have to be investigated to see if this finally ends up being a real product that can be bought or will remain as another concept .
