Seating

Frellstedt Light-Up Bench: Illumination For Bums

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 color 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]

2:00 PM on Tue Jul 1 2008
By Kit Eaton
2,892 views, 21 comments

Latest by jackjumper: Morimoto's restaurant (one of the Iron Chefs) in Philadelphia has booths like this. They change color while you're eating. more »

airplanes

Delta "Cozy Suite" Seats Make Economy Class Semi-Tolerable

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.
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7:30 PM on Mon Apr 21 2008
By Sean Fallon
22,537 views, 65 comments

Latest by n/a: @vertigo: You do realize that on any/all of Delta's aircraft (777, 767, 757) that have a capacity of 200+, when you're in 1st or Business, no one walks past you as they board into economy class, don't you? The main loading more »

seating

Ghost in the Chair Design is Milky not Spooky

Designed to look like it's almost not really there, this "Ghost Chair" puts me more in mind of milk poured into water. It's pretty futuristic, in a curved-yet-straight, acrylic kind of way. It's apparently the first in a line of chairs and stools from designers Ralph Nauta and Lonneke Gordijn that will use this novel technique. We don't know if you'll be able to buy them, though they'd certainly make a dining set that would be a conversation starter. Conversations like: "These chairs look like someone's taken a glass of water and poured in ..." It's on display from the 16th to 21st April in the Salone del Mobile in Milan. [Designdrift via Yanko design]

10:48 AM on Thu Apr 3 2008
By Kit Eaton
67,427 views, 40 comments

Latest by n/a: I'M WORKING ON REAL PILLARS THAT ARE MADE OF GLASS 12 FEET TALL AND TWO FEET THICK. IF ANY OF YOU CAN GUESS THE ANNEALING TIME I'LL GIVE YOU A PRIZE. I'M GOING TO USE REMELT GLASS FROM GREEN BOTTLES. more »

cool seat

Self-Cooling Seat Cushion, Cure for the Hot Butt

You're probably sitting in a seat right now that's getting unbearably hot, struggling with the hot butt phenomenon and wishing you had a Self-Cooling Seat Cushion like this one. It does its cooling passively without any power requirements like that cool-or-heat temperature controlled seat we showed you last year. Although this one sounds like some sort of fanny fatigue-relieving miracle, its makers claim its secret has a scientific basis, using unnamed natural mineral crystals inside with a melting point that "produces a slow, soothing cooling." More »

3:10 PM on Fri Aug 10 2007
By Charlie White
5,940 views, 13 comments

Latest by n/a: Is there a magnum one for those people with the Badonkadonk butt? more »

game, sit and match

Tennis Balls Make Ballsy Benches

Dutch designer Tejo Remy must have decided to give up tennis and sit around all day instead, so he took all the tennis balls he could find and turned them into these benches, selling the idea to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. It's a prime example of what relaxed dope laws will do for the enlightenment of a culture. Come to think of it, tennis balls are fuzzy and cushy, so if you mount them to a steel frame like Tejo did here, these might just turn out to be comfy seats. Don't try this with baseballs. [inhabitat]

9:30 AM on Mon Jul 16 2007
By Charlie White
2,993 views, 7 comments

Latest by soundengineer: is it just me or does it looks like maaacaaaarooooooniiiiii... more »

goofy furniture

Solar System Chair Has Balls

This is one weird-looking seat, called the Solar System Chair, perhaps because it lets you sit on cushy balls shaped like some of those nutty planets out there. So let's see, your ass is on Uranus while your back rests against Neptune and one arm leans on Mercury while the other is, yeah, well-grounded right here on planet Earth. Too bad they're not properly colored to resemble different planets, unless you want all of them to be models of the planet Mars. More »

10:42 AM on Tue May 15 2007
By Charlie White
2,450 views, 18 comments

Latest by VenoMuS: nothing like sitting on your own balls to make you feel cool more »

gadgets

In This Week's Episode of Lame Airplane Seat Innovations...

...we find our heroes cramped in their seats even more thanks to this extremely awkward "Freedom" concept. The so-called freedom concept would allow planes to add another row of seats thanks to reversed seating arrangements. The reversed seats would reduce needed width by overlapping shoulders. The only way I would consider something like this is if the price of the ticket were, say, half of what it would normally go for with regular seating. I can't wait for the day that airplanes eliminate seating altogether and just do standing room, you know, like the subway. –Travis Hudson More »

5:30 PM on Mon Apr 16 2007
By Travis Hudson
6,955 views, 38 comments

Latest by n/a: I'm with you Diem. But I'm also with schrosa... "smooching gets easier..." but, then, "Seriously, forget about sleeping across the seats when the plane is empty." I was totally on board, but hadn't thought of that. Still, I wouldn't mind more »

gadgets

Standing Tomb Only, by Airbus

Airbus hotly denies its alleged bright idea of creating coffin-sized "standing tomb only" padded backboards created especially to cram more sardines into their flying tin cans, contradicting a New York Times article by Christopher Elliott that described the strap-on standing seats in an article last week. But Elliott cries foul in his blog, refusing to back down even though his newspaper printed a mild, sorta/kinda retraction. The Times reporter even produced an illustration of the "seats" for all to see. Said he in his blog: More »

9:39 AM on Wed May 3 2006
By Charlie White
754 views, 4 comments

Latest by Worf: Japan might want something like this. They run 747's for short-haul flights between the islands (there are so many people wanting to fly between the islands that the 747's enormous carrying capacity makes it economical for 1 hour or shorter more »

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