Tag: furniture
Currys stops selling energy-guzzling patio heaters
Currys, ever keen to announce that they’ve stopped selling something that’s either unfashionable or environmentally unfriendly, has told the British public that they’ll no longer be stocking patio heaters in any of their stores.
According to recent reports, using a patio heater for two hours produces the same amount of carbon dioxide as a car produces on an average day, adding 380,000 tonnes to Britain’s annual CO2 emissions.
Given the Great British weather, it’s no surprise that many people have decided to install outdoor heaters, particularly as a certain genre of DIY / home improvement telly programmes have encouraged doing wonderful and expensive things in the garden.
$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…
Renegade Game Chair comes to the UK: ultimate sit down gaming
The Gaming Collection has announced that its US best-selling Ultimate Game Chair range is now available in the UK.
The two latest versions are The Renegade and The UGC, both of which are designed to offer a higher level of interactivity from their gaming, while still sitting down.
Both chairs will shake and rumble in time with the gaming action, headset speakers provide 3D sound, and ground-effect lighting gives an extra dimension.
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…
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…
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…
Ateca Vision TV furniture with a Gallic flavour
Ateca Vision is challenging “poorly constructed, unimaginative” furniture that’s often used to plonk our LCD and plasma flat screen TVs on, by introducing a range of furniture created by one of France’s leading furniture makers.
The Ateca Monaco comes in black, red, or white, and can handle up to 60 inch screens. It is constructed from toughened glass shelves and wood, with integrated cable management to hide the mass of wires that are a necessity of modern consumer electronics.
It retails for £349.99 (42 inch) or £399.99 (60 inch).
