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This egg-shaped chair may look like a serious throwback to the 1970s, but it’s actually a brand new home entertainment plaything designed to be integrated with modern media rooms. The Sound Egg chair is a completely self-contained 5.1 listening booth, perfect for a private home theater watching experience.
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November 4th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: audio home entertainment retro strange + wonderful technology
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These office chairs are crafted from old military aircraft ejector seats – and they are awesome.
The guys over at Motoart took this seat from an authentic Vietnam-era F-4 fighter jet, and turned it into a cushy, padded desk chair. The seat has been upgraded with a sturdy aluminum base, durable double-wheel casters and upholstered…
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July 2nd, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: design just plain fun retro
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Feel the full force of Mastodon on your butt with the MUR-01 rocking chair from Irisohyama. The built-in 8.5-watt 2.1 speaker system will assault your body with sound. Or will it just massage your body? How loud is an 8.5-watt speaker system anyway?
Mr. Smiling Caucasian must be listening to some R. Kelly. Feelin’ on yo…
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June 24th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: audio gadgets home entertainment technology
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With all of the buzz surrounding the release of the new Star Trek movie, here’s a little something to remind you of the kinder, gentler days of the original series (or ST: TOS for those in the know).
This life-size replica is a dead-ringer for Captain Kirk’s original swivel-throne from the bridge of the Starship Enterprise. Not…
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May 11th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: just plain fun retro
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We featured a chair made of recycled CDs a while back; I’m pretty sure that chair will carve markings on your ass after just ten minutes of sitting. I’d rather sit on this computer keyboard armchair. It’s equally geeky but far more comfortable. I think. “Sit on a keyboard” is a thought that never crossed…
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April 27th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: computing design strange + wonderful

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Perfect for lighting up your drab living space, these Léon and Max chairs from French designer Philippe Boulet light up using color-changing RGB LEDs inside the seats, backs, and armrests. And best of all, they’re not tacky in the least.
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February 9th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: design quickpix strange + wonderful
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Ever wonder how it would feel like to lie on a cushion of a magnetic field? Wonder no more. British company Hoverit has released The Lounger, which is so straight out of RPGs and scifi that I can’t bring myself to call it furniture. I’ll call it Magneture. Because “Furnet” sounds stupid.
Hoverit claims that…
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January 27th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: design strange + wonderful technology
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Do you think that there are a lot of people who are just dying to sit inside a speaker? The makers of the Sonic Chair think so. It has 2-way speakers, a subwoofer, and the chair itself is a “sound membrane”. To entice even more people to part with their money, what with the wonderful state…
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December 19th, 2008
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author: lambert v.
filed under: audio computing design strange + wonderful technology
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Furniture makers Varier are offering space-age Zen goodness in the form of the limited edition Gravity Balans recliner. Varier claims that the Gravity Balans’ fully reclined position is “probably the closest you will get to zero gravity”, because in it one ends up in a position where the feet are higher than the heart. You…
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December 15th, 2008
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author: lambert v.
filed under: design strange + wonderful
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This wild piece of modern furniture may look like an abstract shape from the mind of its creator, but it’s actually been precisely engineered from a 3-dimensional waveform plot of a brief audio clip.
To make his Sound/Chair, designer Matthew Plummer-Fernandez started with a 3D plot based on the volume, time and frequency of a…
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October 6th, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: design strange + wonderful
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Let me set one thing straight here. The guys who designed this furniture clearly had no inspiration from any 1980s dot-munching arcade game. Nor does the name “Pouf-Man” have any similarity to the name “Pac-Man”. It’s all on the up-and-up, you see.
Nope, there’s nothing even remotely reminiscent of Pac-Man going on in QAYOT’s Pouf-Man…
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September 30th, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: just plain fun video games
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The RoboStool is a homemade robotic footstool that’s ready and willing to support your tired tootsies whenever you summon it. It’s a little reminiscent of the Take A Seat robotic chair but differs in that it uses 3 different modes of control.
RoboStool has three modes- universal remote, beacon navigation, and thermal sensor following. This…
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July 31st, 2008
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author: karen m.
filed under: hacks + mods robots
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