"Some office chairs are capable of producing several hundreds of discharges over as much as a minute after a person rises from the chair. The sheer number and close spacing of possible ESD events makes the probability of equipment failure more likely [...]"
"There is an urgent need for a standardized test so that procurement contracts can specify chairs that do not radiate this type of electromagnetic interference"
@lanodan Without exposed signal lines, the only thing you are likely to touch is the grounded enclosure or a metal connector. Ideally, ESD into ground = nothing.
@Suiseiseki Hardware is not crappy. They are rigorously engineered to pass IEC 61000-4-2, which is the industry-standard ESD compliance test for the past 40 years. The lesson is that the office chairs can generate a highly non-trivial amount of ESD well exceeding the known engineering knowledge at that time: ~100 pulses in several seconds, in comparison to 10 in compliance tests.
When the weather conditions are right, sitting down or getting up from my work chair generates enough EMI to desync the HDMI connection to my computer display.
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