If you are one of the unlucky Europeans that live in an apartment building where it is against the rules to hang a satellite dish, you may be wishing you had a way to get satellite channels. If you are one of those folks, this is the perfect thing to hide your satellite tendencies from the landlord. This might look like a normal chair to place outside on your balcony, but it isn’t. This is actually a satellite dish cleverly disguised as a chair. The SatPlus Sat Chair has a dish and a LNB hidden in its design. The chair works like a 60cm dish and is made for balcony and the ruses. It might be the perfect thing for picking up channels at the campsite too. The chair weighs in at 5 kilos and will cost you about 242 euros. It’s not clear what satellite networks it will and won’t work with. You will obviously still need a converter to view the programming. We also wonder what would happen if you sit on the chair. I suspect someone’s bum would block the signal as effectively as heavy clouds.

AT&T has announced that its New York City 4G LTE network will go live this month, as the carrier targets coverage for 70m people by the end of the year, while the iPhone 4S has helped Q4 sales break new records. Around 6m smartphones were sold in October and November, AT&T CFO John Stephens confirmed today, meaning the carrier’s Q4 is well on track to best its previous record of 6.1m smartphones in a three month period.

The iPhone 4S takes a fair share of the responsibility for that performance, Stephens suggested. Many customers were waiting for the fifth-gen smartphone to go on sale, he claims, hence the stronger than expected demand. Having already confirmed over 1m iPhone 4S activations in the first five days of the smartphone’s availability, Stephens declined to reveal up to date figures but said that interest in the Apple handset remains strong.

As for 4G, the senior executive vice president confirmed that AT&T is on track to meet its 70m person LTE coverage target by the end of 2011. Several new markets – including NYC – will go live this month.