More recent versions have increased the overall size and added features including music speakers and MP3 player integration.

I pinned the full scale drawing on the wall and sat in the chair to see how my head would move when sitting inside it.

Examples include: The ball chair also appear on the cover of the fourth volume of the manga Spy × Family, with Bond, the Pyrenean Mountain Dog owned by the main characters sitting on it.

A Clockwork Orange (1971) featured a scene with an egg shaped sort of ball chair futon.

For the cover of American singer Jennette McCurdy's self titled debut album, she is pictured in a pink ball chair.