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I'm focused on making touching a positive social value in our culture.
My name is David Palmer and I developed the first professional massage chair for performing
seated massage in the world.
When we first began doing chair massage, we used stools. We'd literally have to hold up
our customers as we're working on them because of course as you get a massage you tend to
relax and you tend to list to one side or the other and people would almost fall over.
The idea of a specialized chair came into my head and in 1984 I began working with a
French cabinet maker by the name of Serge Bouyssou, and we began developing a chair
in a box. And when it was assembled it looked very much like the contemporary chairs that
we're using today.
That was a patented product and lasted for about 10 years. It became a bit of a dinosaur
because of its weight. It weighed 26 pounds.
The iterations of technology have, were pretty rapid in the first 15 years and now we're
just continue to fine tune it to develop the perfect massage chair.
We've got five primary senses, and of them the one that's been ignored most by society
in general is definitely touch. Touch has the most negative associations attached to
it. So I'm out to make touch something that is much more comfortable for people at large
and also something that they can utilize in their daily lives for their health and well being.
I think that massage is something that should be in every home. You know it's something
that should be taught in every grade school as far as I'm concerned and that basic life
skill that people should have. When I see massage integrated into the grammar school
curriculum, then I'll know my work is done.