Sinkom: A Desk That Reads Your Stress Levels

You ever sit down to work and everything just feels off? Chair height’s wrong, light’s stabbing your eyes, and you’re tense before you’ve even touched the keyboard. Sinkom’s pitch is simple: what if your desk fixed that automatically?

It’s not real. Pure concept design. But the kind that makes you wonder how long until someone actually builds it.

The Basic Idea

Hidden sensors track your vitals. Heart rate, skin temp, facial expressions—the works. Stressed? Desk drops lower, lighting dims, maybe some white noise kicks in. Feeling energised? Everything brightens, standing mode activates, you’re off to the races.

There’s an AI assistant baked in. They call her LUNA. She’s there reminding you to hydrate, nagging about your posture, suggesting breaks before you crash. Whether anyone actually wants their furniture to monitor their stress is debatable.

What It Claims to Do

A wireless charging pad is built into the surface. Phone just sits there, powers up. Holographic calendar hovering above the desk—looks impressive until you realise it’s probably distracting as hell. And the keyboard? That’s a projection onto the desk itself. Futuristic, sure. Practical? Jury’s out.

Why People Are Talking About It

Sinkom doesn’t exist, but the problems are real enough. Most of us park ourselves at dumb desks for 8+ hours daily. Bad backs, eye strain, sitting until our bodies hate us. We know it’s awful. We do it anyway.

The technology isn’t science fiction anymore. Your smartwatch already knows when you’re stressed. Some monitors auto-adjust brightness. Sinkom just combines everything and asks: What if your workspace actually responded to how you’re doing?

Appealing concept. Also slightly creepy. Do you want your desk to track your mood? Where does that data go? Who sees it? Nobody’s answering these questions because Sinkom isn’t real, but someone should probably think about them before version 1.0 ships.

Where This Goes

Smart homes already exist. Speakers listening constantly, fridges tracking groceries, thermostats learning your schedule. A mood-reading desk isn’t exactly a wild leap. What changes is that furniture stops being passive. Your current desk doesn’t care if you’re productive, miserable, or dehydrated. Future desks might not let you ignore those things.

Progress or just more tech nobody asked for? Depends on the execution. Who controls the data? Whether you can switch it off when you want to work without being monitored. Sinkom’s staying conceptual for now. But five years? Someone’s building a version of this. And we’ll find out if we actually want furniture paying that much attention.