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Take-a-Seat: The chair that follows you 17 Dec 2007
Jelte van Geest's "Take-a-Seat" is a chair that follows you around. Say you're visiting your local library, for example...You simply hold your membership-card against the chair's built-in sensor for a second and from then on you have a seat that tags along behind you wherever you go. The video clip below - made by van Geest as part of his graduation project at the Design Academy Eindhoven - illustrates this very scenario:
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letter 2 Jan 2008 01:44 PM
Smart! I hope these seats will be used in every library over the world. It is futuristic, very handy and user-friendly: we need designers like this guy! (I'd like one (or two, or three, or ...) of these chairs in my house, too.)
incaltaminte 28 Jan 2008 01:46 PM
agree, very futuristic, but come to think of it... why so futuristic? we have the technology, we have the resources... i think this will happen very soon.