For instance, old cameras were boxes. New cameras are ergonomically designed to contour to your hand's shape. In the post-industrialized age, machines need to do more than simply operate, they must integrate the subtleties of the human body into the design. A tool is not helpful or beneficial to future health, if it causes you pain. Ergonomics unifies the sciences of physiology, engineering and design, creating an organic relationship between science and health.
Chairs are one of the most overlooked office tools.
In fact, your back and neck pain problably comes from your chair. A healthy body is an active body. A human body's need to shift at least every eight minutes makes the static chair an obsolete and harmful tool. An ergonomically designed chair needs to take a holistic approach to the problem of supporting the body. But a simple height adjustment does not make a chair ergonomic.