Category: Furnishings & Furniture
Bloomframe foldaway balcony – it's a balcony, a window, a balcony, a window…
Now you see it, now you don’t. The Bloomframe foldaway balcony looks like an excellent solution for how to install a new feature to your house without having to bother with planning permission…
Microsoft claim Surface could be in homes by 2011
Microsoft is claiming to be able to push out a consumer version of its coffee table-cum-PC, Surface, within the next three years, lopping a couple of years off their original forecast of 2013. VP of Specialised Devices and Applicatiobs at MS, Tom Gibbons, told Fortune magazine:
“In the three-year time window, we absolutely see how to get there. If we can beat that, we’ll try to beat that.”
Ozone Inflatable Neutron – with built-in sound system
Whether you have a pool or you are planning for next year’s summer break – the Ozone Inflatable Neutron could be a luxurious way to relax.
$6,000 spare, and a lot of pent-up anger? Bash a chunk of metal into an armchair, with the Do Hit Chair
People with an excessive amount of money irritate me, the way they can justify spending $6,020 on a chunk of metal, bash it with a sledgehammer, and call the compressed-car-type steel ‘furniture’. And probably claim it on tax as it was ‘therapy’.
What am I rabbiting on about, you ask? The Do Hit Chair, which is a 0.04″ thick steel cube, which you can style into your own armchair by bashing it with a sledgehammer. Of course, the key is not to go overboard…
Walkstation workstation: jog on a treadmill as you blog
Hands up – how many people would purchase this Walkstation, thinking they’d be able to fit in at least an hour’s exercise each day as they plough through their RSS feeds, but after a week, it’s start accumulating dust as the couch in front of a Hollyoaks episode is more appealing than jogging whilst surfing.
Priced at $6,500, you’d think consumers would be able to afford a personal trainer for that amount of money, but…
TV packaging to TV furniture: more eco-friendly solution, interesting style
This may not be to everyone's taste, but Tom Ballhatchet, a recent graduate from Central St Martins' with an MA in Industrial Design, has come up with a solution for what to do with all that protective packaging that…
Marks & Spencer is after your parents' retirement fund with the Autograph Monroe TV Bed
Can anyone else imagine their parents walking into Marks & Spencer to do the weekly shop consisting of salmon, mixed fruit packs and raspberry ‘n white chocolate flapjacks, then making a slight detour at the home interiors department on the way to picking up some cotton Y-fronts, and ending up ordering a TV bed? Or is it just me whose parents are at ‘that age’ where their idea of being spontaneous and wild is buying some home furnishings? Still, better than skydiving at least!
Marks & Spencer have added to their home interiors/technology departments with the TV Bed, a leather upholstered Monroe design which features a built-in area for holding a TV. With the touch of a button, the TV…
Panasonic launches EP30005 massage chair
We've not looked at massage chairs much here at Tech DIgest — well, apart from this inflatable one — but this model from Panasonic looks the business. The EP30005 is supposed to deliver the deepest massage available, with an intensity…
Twentyfour:London bar and nightclub is the most technologically-advanced yet
The launch of a new bar in London has got the whole of Shiny Towers in a tizz, not just because it’s literally down the road from our offices and we’re renowned cocktail-supping gals, but because it promises to be not just London’s most technologically-advanced bar, but possibly the world’s too.
It’s reportedly the first bar in the world with a fully-interactive interior, where customers can control projected images on every wall, choosing between ‘dot matrix sci-fi chic, crashing sea surroundings, Californian desert scenery’, or even your own images and videos. If you fancy getting even more involved with the interior decoration, you can play with the interactive virtual Koi Carp, or dance and watch your thermal shadows on the walls replicating every shape being thrown…
Forget comfort: geeks can sit, lounge, and lie on this DIY Tetris furniture
For those more into geek culture than comfort, these Tetris-inspired combination furniture could be perfect. By fitting the pieces together in different ways, you can make a table and two chairs, a sofa, or a bed. Firstly, call me…
