The Rocking Couch

My kids think that we should definitely get a rocking couch, but my wife is less enthused. There are, I suppose, potential drawbacks once you're done using it as a seesaw.

Patrick Knoch of Extranorm, a design studio in Paris, calls this piece Équilibriste. He says that "It creates communication between people, a physical, lively and spontaneous communication." Surely you couldn't find a better use for the $5,269.28 price.

-via Core 77


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Yeah because lead is obviously lighter than this microlattice. /s

"Oh, your 300mph supercar isn't so fast, don't you know the earth is flying through space at 67,000mph?"

But alright, you are a very clever boy for pointing out the irrelevant-obvious.
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A more interesting question/comment about this is its strength. Aerogels are quite strong, and have a number of other outstanding properties such as their utility as an insulator. It looks like this material (or "structure", since it seems to me more akin to miniaturized scaffolding) has a completely different set of pros and cons than aerogel so it greatly increases our palette of options when it comes to ultralite construction -- quite useful for aerospace and many other industries...
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