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Scoop High Chair For Future Space Cadets And Dorky Parents

Jesus Diaz — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:00:00 +0000

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.

Now if I can get one for myself then I will get one for each of us. Warp nine, Sonny Boy. [Brother Max Dexigner via Core77]

Dowelled Chair Will Leave Fascinating Patterns On Your Butt

Dan Nosowitz — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:20:00 +0000

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.

[Core77]

A Media Chair For Starship Captains

Danny Allen — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:12:54 +0000

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.

Emila says the chair would be crafted from hard plastic and have four telescopic legs made of titanium. Too bad I probably wouldn’t be able to afford one. [Renamed via BornRich]

A Chair Made From 10,000 Drinking Straws

Sean Fallon — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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]

The Next Best Thing After Riding A Vespa

Jesus Diaz — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:24:20 +0000

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?

I always wanted to have a Vespa. *Buys* [Born Rich]

Motorised La-Z-Boy On eBay, Slightly Damaged Due To DWI

Rosa Golijan — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:00:00 +0000

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.

During Dennis LeRoy Anderson’s trial, the chair was considered a vehicle for legal purposes and because of that it ended up as city property. Since there didn’t seem to be a use for it, it went onto the auction block:

Known as the world famous DWI motorised La-Z-Boy style Chair, year built unknown. This is a unique vehicle located in Proctor Minnesota. The vehicle has been obtained from a DWI forfeiture and has not been restored. Engine: Briggs and Stratton Model # 19070 Type: 5641 with electric start. Transmission type unknown and is sloppy. The vehicle has front lights, rear tag light, radio, cup holder, rear roll bars and other custom options, missing the seat cushion. Curb weight of vehicle is unknown, length is 52″ and width is 45″. This is a great parade vehicle or a terrific business draw. Be the only one in town with a unique vehicle like this. This is not a street legal vehicle.

That’s a lot of customisation, but for the current going price of $US3250 someone oughta at least replace the missing cushion or tune up the transmission. Or at least toss in a few extra stickers, if nothing. [eBay via Wired]

I Don’t Care If It Could Disappear, I Want This Tetris Chair

Rosa Golijan — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:40:00 +0000

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.

The Tetris chair comes in the more traditional multi-coloured design as well as a mono-chrome version, but both look absolutely fantastic in a kitschy way. I just worry about the thing going poof when you sit in it and complete the gap. [Corofloat via Gearfuse via Neatorama]

Soft Tofu Chair Moulds To Your Softer Tofu Tush

Mark Wilson — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:20:00 +0000

I’ve never been all that enthusiastic about eating tofu. But sitting on a gigantic piece of the stuff sounds just delicious.

No, Yu-Ying Wu’s “breathing chair” is not really a giant chunk of tasteless protein, but it will automatically form to your body as you sit, turning from tofu to armchair with the weight of your body. But beyond intriguing design, the chair is build from a springy plastic compound with enough resistance that it will actually help lift you out of the chair when standing, relieving some pressure from your knees.

Wu’s chair is still just in the design stage, which is a shame, because my butt is hungry. [CCTV via Core77 via DVICE]

Man Pleads Guilty To DWI On Motorised, Tricked Out Easy Chair

Rosa Golijan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:42:50 +0000

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.

Anderson plead guilty to a DWI for his alcohol fuelled 2008 joyride which ended in an easy chair on car impact. Apparently his blood alcohol level distracted from the fact that he can’t have had a registration for this chair. [NPR via BoingBoing]

Rocking Chair Powers Its Attached OLED Lamp Just By Rocking

Dan Nosowitz — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:20:00 +0000

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.

The OLED lamp even senses when it’s light or dark out, and if it’s light, stores the energy produced by rocking in a battery pack until nightfall. The chair, designed by Rochus Jacob, rightfully shared first prize at the DesignBoom Green Life Competition, which you can read more about here. [Unpluggd]