chairs
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 »
Design
Rocking Chair Powers Its Attached OLED Lamp Just By Rocking
10:20AM Dan Nosowitz | The Murakami chair’s attached lamp is powered by kinetic energy produced from the chair’s rocking back and forth — deliciously simple and elegant. Oh, and that lampshade? Not a lampshade. That’s the actual OLED light source, shaped like a lampshade. More »
Design
1:20PM Wilson Rothman | We already knew about painting by Windows error, but this mindbending chair at the London Design Festival looks like it was designed in the middle of a full-on Win 98 meltdown. [Core77]
Chair Designed During Windows Panic Attack?
1:20PM Wilson Rothman | We already knew about painting by Windows error, but this mindbending chair at the London Design Festival looks like it was designed in the middle of a full-on Win 98 meltdown. [Core77]
Robots
Todder-Sized Robotic Chairs Help Kids With Disabilities Get Around
6:00AM Jason Chen | When a one-year-old has difficulty with movement, it impairs brain development, since researchers say babies form neural connections through exploration of their environment. How do you get around this? With a bad-ass robotic chair. More »
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