Changing The Shape Of Your Furniture With A Wave Of The Hand
Click here for reuse options!We’re probably a long way away from that, but MIT’s Tangible Media Group — an arm of the US university that’s dedicated to exploring “the Tangible Bits vision to seamlessly couple the dual world of bits and atoms by giving physical form to digital information” — has set the bar for a transforming, robotic piece of furniture.
Called the Transform, it debuted at the Lexus Design Amazing exhibition in Milan.
“Usually furniture is a static object, but we wanted to give it some kind of motion, some life form,” MS candidate Philipp Schoessler said in a “closer look” video, embedded below. “We explored the interplay between static and dynamic with these pins that react to you, but can also display content.”
Copyright 2014 Liberaland