telegraph.co.uk - Trainee surgeons will soon be sofa practicing operations from the comfort of their sofas after a study found they performed better after playing games on the Nintendo Wii. US researchers are designing software that will allow doctors to carry out simulated surgery using the console’s novel control system.More… (Nintendo)
abc.net.au - Pressure sensors in sofa this interactive furniture detect how heavy you are then ‘tell’ the chair to change colour accordingly. “For example, imagine that a heavy person sat on the sofa. The sofa would change its colour from white to red, as if the blood pressure was rising high,” says Kanaya.More… (General Sciences)
news.yahoo.com - BERLIN (Reuters) - A Berlin student who bought a second-hand sofa bed at a flea market learned she had been sitting on a small fortune when she found a baroque painting hidden inside the couch.The artwork fetched 19,200 euros ($27,660) in Hamburg after the student discovered it stashed between the folding sections of the couch.More… (Odd Stuff)
abclocal.go.com - The casual chair apartment eventually had a sectional sofa and love seat, coffee and breakfast tables, a rug, paintings and a video game system. The artists built a cinderblock wall to disguise their hideaway.More… (Odd Stuff)
glumbert.com - The sofa appears to be made out of hundreds of thin, flat chair-shaped silhouettes, joined together by some kind of membrane in an accordion that can collapse down into a dictionary-think chunk or be spread out for feet on end, as a divan, chair or sofa. (via BoingBoing)More… (Design
forbes.com - All I wanted to do was sell my sofa. but there I was, down one of the steamier back alleys of Craigslist.com, browsing a section entitled “Los Angeles Casual Encounters.More… (Odd Stuff)
bonbon.co.uk - Filed under ‘design’ (though not tech) - “Doc, A sofa with removable covers and integrated/patented mechanism which transforms the sofa into a bunk bed. Doc XL furnishes the day area and with a simple movement transforms into a practical ready made bunk bed with integrated supporting ladder and protection guard.”More… (Design)
thestar.com - From the Toronto Star: “When the new chocolate-coloured sofa set was delivered to her Brampton home, Doris Moore was stunned to see packing labels describing the shade as “Nigger-brown.”More… (Odd Stuff)
bonbon.co.uk - Filed under ‘design’ (though not tech) - “Doc, A sofa with removable covers and integrated/patented mechanism which transforms the sofa into a bunk bed. Doc XL furnishes the day area and with a simple movement transforms into a practical ready made bunk bed with integrated supporting ladder and protection guard.”More… (Design)
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