chairs
Design
Scoop High Chair For Future Space Cadets And Dorky Parents
5:00PM Jesus Diaz | If I ever have kids, I won’t get them the $US470 Scoop High Chair. I don’t care it has a foot pedal-driven pneumatic lift or that is easy to clean: It’s just a ridiculous piece of high-tech furniture. More »
Design
Dowelled Chair Will Leave Fascinating Patterns On Your Butt
1:20PM Dan Nosowitz | Kibardin Design’s “Deep Forest” armchair is made from 374 shaped and creatively joined dowels. It’s as if you plopped into a giant container of different-sized dowels that retained your shape after you left. Pretty but pricey at over $7000. More »
Design
A Media Chair For Starship Captains
1:12AM Danny Allen | This sweet-looking ergonomic media chair is but a concept in the mind of industrial designer, Martin Emila, but I dig the look and the integrated iPhone/iPod dock and projector. Three-way speakers on either side of the head also provide surround-sound. More »
Design
A Chair Made From 10,000 Drinking Straws
11:00AM Sean Fallon | Finally, a piece of furniture that goes with your drinking straw lamp. Perhaps next time designer Scott Jarve could create a bendy straw couch so that I could mould the seat to my arse better. [Jarvie via Make]
Design
The Next Best Thing After Riding A Vespa
1:24AM Jesus Diaz | I’ve been considering buying one of those vertebraedynamic Herman-Miller’s. But then I saw this: The Vespa Chair. Awesome retro design recycled with leather to fit my sweet bubblebuttocks or scientifically-researched ergonomics that can avoid fatal back problems and RSIs? More »
Vehicles
Motorised La-Z-Boy On eBay, Slightly Damaged Due To DWI
4:00PM Rosa Golijan | Remember the guy who got a DWI after crashing his motorised La-Z-Boy? While he’s serving a 180-day jail sentence, the City of Proctor, Minnesota is putting his tricked out chair onto eBay, “Hell yeah, it’s fast” bumper sticker and all. More »
Design
6:40PM Rosa Golijan | At first I thought that Gabriel Cañas was nuts for designing a chair that’s missing a corner, but then I realised the man is just preventing a full line from forming and the chair’s bottom disappearing in true Tetris fashion. More »
I Don’t Care If It Could Disappear, I Want This Tetris Chair
6:40PM Rosa Golijan | At first I thought that Gabriel Cañas was nuts for designing a chair that’s missing a corner, but then I realised the man is just preventing a full line from forming and the chair’s bottom disappearing in true Tetris fashion. More »
Design
Soft Tofu Chair Moulds To Your Softer Tofu Tush
9:20AM Mark Wilson | I’ve never been all that enthusiastic about eating tofu. But sitting on a gigantic piece of the stuff sounds just delicious. More »
Random Stuff
Man Pleads Guilty To DWI On Motorised, Tricked Out Easy Chair
9:42AM Rosa Golijan | This souped up easy chair is powered by a lawnmower engine, comes with cupholders, a stereo and a DWI (Driving While Impaired) if you’re Dennis LeRoy Anderson and manage to drive it into a parked car. Oh, and it’s got awesome pinstripes, too. More »
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