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By Ali S. in Video Clips on Dec 15, 2007 at 5:32 am


Here is an interesting visual concept graduation project at the Design Academy Eindhoven. A seat that you don’t have to pick up and drag around in a library. Instead, this cute little guy/gal will follow you around like a faithful pet…that you can sit on. ;)

Of course, some of this is made with CG and in some parts you’ll see someone moving it, however, if it ever did work imagine the possibility of sitting anywhere you want with a seat in a quite corner of the library or next to the windows as you like. Or, the havoc one can cause by playing around with them!

Hit play or go to the Link [Youtube] – via Freshome.

Here is the concept website by the designer Johann Winfridus (Jelt) van Geest. – Link.


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  1. Carl Huber
    Dec 15th, 2007 at 8:32 am

    Hah! I love it - very cute. Ridiculously impractical (to the point of the "problem" they could just have simple folding chairs with wheels on the bottom available at libraries - no wasteful electricity), but very clever. The thought of automatically assembling the numerous chairs at once was pretty interesting...

  2. Levi
    Dec 15th, 2007 at 9:17 am

    ...in the middle of the night... those seats cry from the lack of human touch. in time, they will become jealous and rebel(along with neglected iPods)... thanks Design Academy Eindhoven(and Apple) for designing the doom of us all.

  3. Jon
    Dec 15th, 2007 at 11:00 am

    Seems completely impracticable. Why should seats find you, when it's never very hard to find seats in a library? Also this demonstrates a highly idealised vision of how it would work - there are practically no other people in the library than the one chair user shown.

  4. Thomas
    Dec 15th, 2007 at 11:14 am

    Its pretty cute, but does it die like pleo if abused? Cause these days, what is a robot if it can't make us sad about the things we do to it.

  5. Ali S.
    Dec 15th, 2007 at 12:01 pm

    @Jon

    That's what I thought as well about the number of people around. However, if ever built with a smart avoidance system I'm sure it would avoid hitting people.

  6. L.C.
    Dec 15th, 2007 at 12:04 pm

    @ Jon....on the contrary...i was just in the library last week and had to leave because there was no seating, and our library is four stories high. I do have to agree, tho, quite impractical, but cute idea.

  7. Miss Cellania
    Dec 15th, 2007 at 12:28 pm

    @Jon, that struck me, too, but to do a stop-motion demo they probably filmed when the library was closed. They ARE cute! Still, how lazy do you have to be to need this?

  8. Conor
    Dec 15th, 2007 at 2:46 pm

    This is awesome! The only sad part was nobody seemed to care about that guys lecture, cept maybe the seats themselves! D:

  9. MoniA
    Dec 15th, 2007 at 3:33 pm

    I didn't see anyone moving them.

  10. Ali S.
    Dec 15th, 2007 at 3:44 pm

    @ MoniA

    You'll see at around 1:07 in the right hand corner of the screen you'll see the actors head when he makes the chair "lift up". ;)

  11. peach
    Dec 15th, 2007 at 8:02 pm

    I can see it now- Bumper chairs

  12. heather
    Feb 13th, 2008 at 4:18 pm

    These would probably only work in larger libraries where the aisles would be big enough to accommodate random sitters, otherwise they'd be a hindrance. they're cute as heck, though.

  13. Becky
    Jun 6th, 2008 at 8:41 pm

    this could be a lot of fun to prank someone who didn't know of their exisitence . . .

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