lean-back

The end result is that consuming short-form media like blog posts can be transformed into an experience more closely related to the lean-back, long-form experience one gets from reading a book or a magazine, especially when paired with a device like an iPad that physically reinforces a lean-back experience.

Danny Wong: The 30 Most Underrated Innovations of 2010 Danny Wong 2011

For decades, much of advertising has been a passive, lean-back experience.

Ad Execs Gaze Into 2011 Crystal Ball Suzanne Vranica 2011

The end result is that consuming short-form media like blog posts can be transformed into an experience more closely related to the lean-back, long-form experience one gets from reading a book or a magazine, especially when paired with a device like an iPad that physically reinforces a lean-back experience.

Danny Wong: The 30 Most Underrated Innovations of 2010 Danny Wong 2011

And it's this last point - the shift away from internet use as an upright computing experience and toward a lean-back entertainment experience - that I think is perhaps the most important innovation of the year.

Danny Wong: The 30 Most Underrated Innovations of 2010 Danny Wong 2011

Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal Lenovo N5902 Buy a Multimedia Remote | Mess around too much with a keyboard in your living room and the TV experience turns into more of a lean-forward experience than a lean-back one.

Cutting the Cord on Cable Kevin Sintumuang 2012

And it's this last point - the shift away from internet use as an upright computing experience and toward a lean-back entertainment experience - that I think is perhaps the most important innovation of the year.

Danny Wong: The 30 Most Underrated Innovations of 2010 Danny Wong 2011

"We're looking at how to push users into passive-consumption mode, a lean-back experience."

Eliezer Sobel: YouTube: No More Wasting Time Making Choices! 2010

And all it took was a simple re-branding: it's no longer "passive-consumption"; it's now the "lean-back" experience, and seriously, tell me, who among us doesn't truly revel in a good, old-fashioned lean-back?

Eliezer Sobel: YouTube: No More Wasting Time Making Choices! 2010

A film that reflects what I used to hear described as the ‘lean-forward’ nature of digital media, contrasting with the ‘lean-back’ legacy of traditional broadcast TV.

Happy Birthday YouTube at Helpful Technology 2010

If it is an addition, I'll be up to 10 hours a day of what Davidson calls "lean-back mode."

Eliezer Sobel: YouTube: No More Wasting Time Making Choices! 2010