78 year-old Lin Shuseng, a retired mechanic from a car repair shop in Beijing has made a massage chair from scrap materials.
Shuseng, who couldn’t afford a massage chair, came up with the idea to build one for his wife to ease her stiff limbs. “I go mountain walking every day, while my wife cannot do it because of her painful joints,” said Lin.
It was developed from the initial idea of a neck massage to a full body massage. It took him about eight years to complete the project. Up until now, the chair is still not the final version, since he may add other functions to it.
Recently he added a new function to the chair by installing an electric pot under the chair which warms the seat.
[via ananova]
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