If you ever find yourself flying cattle class in the Qantas A380 over to Los Angeles, at least you can take solace in the fact that the economy seat you’re sitting in won an International Design Award.
To most of us, comfort is sitting on a soft cushion.To others, comfort is sitting on a sheet of molded plastic that rides up one’s butt crack.
If you’ve ever wanted to sit on a hard, flat, unyielding piece of metal while biking but your butt gets cold easily, we’ve got a solution for your ridiculous problem.
At last you can avoid the hassle of taking your Lasonic Ghetto Blaster every single time you go to the park: Now the park will have boom boxes the size of a park bench, with more than 500 watts of high quality ghetto thump. You only need a mobile phone with Bluetooth audio support, and the Boom Bench will be yours to annoy every single person 10km around you.
For anyone with a child, that bond you feel with your offspring is the most powerful in nature. And your protective instincts demand the absolute best in child safety, like this $US4,000 Wing Man baby seat prototype. It’s constructed of strong, lightweight carbon fibre—the same material used in performance cars and aeroplanes across the world—that should keep your little bundle of joy stylish and nearly invincible. But just so your know, dear parent, all of us without a child think that you’re freaking nuts for reading this many words on a $US4,000 baby seat. [carbonfibergear via Jalopnik]
You may not know it by name, but the classic Ovalia Egg Chair probably streamed into your consciousness via the background of some MTV hipster video or the seating at a really, really cool grandma’s house. (Actually, we’re sure that you spotted an Ovalia chair in the shot after the jump, at minimum.) Now the Ovalia Egg Chair is getting reissued with the support of JBL.
Kind of the inverse of the psychedelic LED effects we showed you earlier, this relaxing Light Bench is maker Frellstedt’s idea of the future of seating. You know, the future where even garden furniture uses up electricity and contributes to global warming. Okay, it’s stuffed with LEDs, so it only consumes 95W, but you know what I’m saying. With its shifting, selectable colour patterns, it’s way too nice to end up in all but the best municipal parks, where it’d just keep tramps awake in the wee small hours. Ed. note: In case you didn’t get it, “bum” is a double entendre. [Trendir] galleryPost('lightbench', 3, '');
It may not be as fancy as first class accommodations, but Delta’s new “Cozy Suite” seats promise to make economy class seating less of a hellish, crippling nightmare. The major feature of the design is a staggered layout that increases privacy while simultaneously creating a space for weary travelers to rest their heads. It also allows passengers to enjoy 31-inches of leg room (2-inches better than the competition) and the ability to recline without disturbing the person behind them.
In a nutshell, the Cycle Bag is a removable bike saddle that can be utilised as a backpack. While I think that this concept design from Iohanna Pani has potential in terms of all around convenience and deterring theft, I can’t help but wonder about the size. On a motorcycle, maybe—but a bicycle? You simply don’t come across many cyclists with asses wide enough to engulf a meter stick. [Yanko Design]
