Computers and health: 'When you're sitting, you're one step above being dead'

CES 2016 is packed with health companies offering solutions to desk-based laptop slouch. Our reporter stopped slouching for long enough to try some of them

Our digital lifestyles and desk-based workplaces are contributing to serious health problems and could be shortening our lives, technology's wellness firms want us to believe.

"Americans will risk their lives for convenience," Philo Northrup told the Consumer Electronics Show on Wednesday. Slouching over his chair and hanging his head down, he said: "When you say digital lifestyle, we're talking about sitting, and over the day gravity is doing this to you."