Boex 3D Creative Solutions designed this award winning quirky bench. The seat is made up of 1600 pencils which are individually sprung. Each pencil can be removed and used.
Love it. Quirky benches are cool, but personally I'm more of a mechanical pencil fan. With this bench you probably need to be pretty sure to sit / stand vertically, coming in at an angle would surely break some pencils, right?
We're having a bit of a discussion about quirky benches over at http://www.chickenmonkeydog.com/please-not-to-stop-in-the-chickens and we'd love to hear your thoughts as someone in the "quirky bench" know.
More informative than I expected from the summary I've seen in a couple places so far.
One caveat is that at distances larger than the size of a magnet, the force will start to drop off as 1/r^4, which is really fast. If you had an unobtainium small magnet that can pick up a car at 10 cm, it would struggle to pick up a paperclip at 3 meters.
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We're having a bit of a discussion about quirky benches over at http://www.chickenmonkeydog.com/please-not-to-stop-in-the-chickens and we'd love to hear your thoughts as someone in the "quirky bench" know.
But who would want to have a pencil bench? It's impractical right?
One caveat is that at distances larger than the size of a magnet, the force will start to drop off as 1/r^4, which is really fast. If you had an unobtainium small magnet that can pick up a car at 10 cm, it would struggle to pick up a paperclip at 3 meters.