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Chairdog in Dune: Imperium
Chairdogs were a form of 'living furniture'[1] which could adapt and change its shape to fit the user.[2][3] They had eyes and a certain level of sentience beyond their primary function of form-shifting.[4][5]
Chairdogs required sustenance to continue functioning[6] and came in a number of colors. Hedley Tuek's Chairdog on Rakis was blue, a rare shade for a Chairdog.[7] Alma Mavis Taraza had two Chairdogs, one green and one white.[8] Bellonda sat on a brown Chairdog in the Bene Gesserit cafeteria on Chapterhouse.[9]
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- Chairdogs also feature in Frank Herbert's novel 'Whipping Star'. The Chairdogs in Whipping star are bio-engineered dogs shaped into chairs. They are trained to massage the people who sat in them, similar to modern-day vibrating massage chairs, though they do not need electricity or technology.[10]
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- ↑ Heretics of Dune, Teg’s dislike of Chairdogs and other living furniture was well known.
- ↑ Heretics of Dune, Taraza took her own drink to a Chairdog opposite him, a fluffy white bit of animate furniture that fitted itself to her with the ease of long familiarity.
- ↑ Heretics of Dune, Taraza returned to her table and sank into her Chairdog, leaning back while it molded itself to her contours.
- ↑ Chapterhouse: Dune, Sheeana pushed herself back from the table and wiped her mouth with her napkin. Tamalane did the same. Her chairdog adjusted as she leaned back, eyes bright and amused.
- ↑ Chapterhouse: Dune, “What?” Bellonda whirled in her chairdog, causing it to squeak with indignation.
- ↑ Chapterhouse: Dune, Chairdogs required sustenance and expensive staff.
- ↑ Heretics of Dune, Tamalane had a full account of the most recent such confrontation. Stiros and Tuek alone, debating far into the night, just the two of them (they thought) in Tuek’s quarters, comfortably ensconced in rare blue Chairdogs, melange-laced confits close at hand.
- ↑ Heretics of Dune, Taraza took her own drink to a Chairdog opposite him, a fluffy white bit of animate furniture that fitted itself to her with the ease of long familiarity. For Teg, she had provided a traditional green upholstered chair, but she saw his glance flick across the Chairdog and grinned at him.
- ↑ Chapterhouse: Dune, Bell’s brown chairdog pulsed faintly at this unaccustomed disturbance.
- ↑ Whipping Star page 67, McKie imagined the Bureau's Director of Discretion, a suave little Laclac sitting in that nicely tailored environment back at Central. Siker would be relaxed, fighting tendril withdrawn, his face split open, an elite Chairdog ministering to his flesh, trained minions a button-push away.