Nissan makes self-parking office chairs

Nissan's self-parking chairs tuck themselves into position when the user claps. [Picture: Nissan video]

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Carmaker Nissan has created a fleet of self-parking office chairs.

Users need only to clap once, and the wheeled, motorised chairs will simultaneously tuck themselves into their rightful positions, under their respective desks or around a meeting table.

The chairs, made by office furniture company Okamura and customised by Nissan, are tracked by four motion cameras on the walls of the room, and simultaneously controlled via WiFi, says Nissan in a video explaining more about the project.

While the new devices promise a tidier-looking office within seconds and may appeal to particularly lazy users, they are unlikely to hit the mainstream market.

The chairs were created and filmed by Nissan employees, and then showed off in a YouTube video, as a quirky way of promoting Nissan's self-parking car technology.

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