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A design question

If office chair manufacturers such as Herman Miller identified years ago that people who sit in office chairs for long periods of time get hot and need ventilation (hence the advent of the ubiquitous, award-winning, status-symbol-for-a-time Aeron), why hasn’t anybody considered that little tykes (such as my darling daughter Willow) similarly overheat when seated in such contrivances as car seats and strollers? Why is there no Aeron stroller, no car seat made of a pellicle material that might cool the back and neck and buttocks of toddlers? C’mon people! Just because so many of them can’t talk (yet) doesn’t mean that babies wouldn’t benefit from designs that would make their lives more comfortable. I’m sure I’m not the only parent who has wrested her child out of a car seat only to find her bogged in a pool of sweat. And I’m sure at least a small percentage of those parents must be industrial designers!


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