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Inventor just lazing around
14 July 2006
By ALEXANDRA BREMNER
Josh Murphy has an ideal world, one in which you don't have to walk around too much to get the things you need.
The 13-year-old drew up plans to make his dream a reality.
He has invented a chair combining an old Lazy Boy and an electric wheelchair that includes all the necessities for teenage life.
"There is a fridge, a fan, a TV and a PlayStation," he says.
It is called the Very Lazy Boy.
"It's more lazy then a normal Lazy Boy."
Josh made the chair as part of a TV show called Let's Get Inventing with a mentor guiding him through the process.
"We began planning it all out then we made it," he says.
"We put the chair on wheels and changed the frame. It is electric and we also made another frame for it that is rocket powered."
As part of the show, Josh had to use the Very Lazy Boy for a whole day at his school, Sacred Heart College in Glen Innes.
"Usually you are walking around, getting up. I had to do rugby training in it. It was fun," he says.
His mother Michelle says the initial idea came from his grandad's love of his Lazy Boy chair.
"It has all the staples of life really," she says.
Josh says the chair took about seven days to make.
"It's cool and I've invented something no one else has."
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Boy Genius! I have to have one.
