Imagine you walk into your office with the temperature just right. You sit down and a very valuable and meaningful day begins. This is the kind of smart office that engineers are trying to make. It uses technology to help workers perform their best at work.
It can be bad for your health if you sit in front of a desk for too long. For example, it can cause pain in the back and the neck. Sanon, a company in Zhejiang, built UP7 to deal with this. As a smart lifting desk, UP7 can tell how long a user has been sitting in the chair. When it reaches the setting time, it will "tell" the user to stand up and walk around. It does this by either shaking the table or sending messages to the user's phone.
The company also invented a kind of smart chair to match with the table. "The chair is so comfortable. It can adjust its arms and height according to your body shape," a user in Zhejiang said on Xiaohongshu.
In smart offices, you probably won't use paper notebooks. Instead, you can try electronic paper books to put your work online. N10 from Hanvo n Technology in Beijing, is a new "notebook" like this. It uses a screen that doesn't produce much light. Users write or draw with an electronic pen on the screen.
"It is just like reading and writing on real paper," a user said. "You can organize, search and save notes easily. You usually need several big paper notebooks to do what the electronic notebook does."