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OK, what's hands-down, the goofiest product we have ever reviewed in Law Technology News? But also breathtakingly kewl? The Sitness 5 chair by Germany's Topstar. It looks like a giant orange.

What exactly IS it? "A kind of exercise ball rests on five chromed feet of light metal," says the German manufacturer.

Air pressure can be regulated to body weight with a provided air pump, notes Test Drive columnnist Donna Payne (CEO of Seattle's PayneGroup), whose September column takes a look at how technology is changing office furniture. 

But it's better looking than the Isokinetics Executive Exercise Ball Chair, right. 

If you ask me, that one looks like charcoal beach ball sitting on top of a firepit.

Check them both out in the Sept. issue. 

And never fear, next month it's a more traditional topic -- we swerve away from the Northwest Corner's fascination with um, er, granola technology as Ms. Donna reviews another new but more traditional trend: netbook computers.