Finally, flat-pack furniture that builds its own damn self.
The armchair up top was created Belgian designer Carl de Smet. The furniture is made of a smart polymer that “remembers” its shape, even after being compressed down into a tiny little box. The trick to the polymer’s shape-memory is heat, which de Smet demonstrates in the BBC video below by warming the material to 158 degrees Fahrenheit. “The material is the mechanism,” he says. “Finally, the material is doing the work.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fDsPBmVD0w
Next stop: flat-pack memory foam HOUSES.
[Via Laughing Squid]
