Changing The Shape Of Your Furniture With A Wave Of The Hand

Posted by | April 16, 2014 00:17 | Filed under: Planet Top Stories


Designers at MIT are developing furniture that can change shape when you wish. Imagine a table that can become a bed, or a bed that can then become a chair.

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.”

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