Between a rock and a soft place

Posted on 11/02/2015 by Radhika Seth

Poor Fred Flintstone… Worked all day and came back home to ruthlessly uncomfortable stone furniture! I’m sure he would have loved one of these stone-mimicking foam stools. Designer Matthijs Kok did a spot-on job of molding soft PU Foam to look like a chunk of rock. Don’t let your eyes fool you, the stool is as soft as a baby’s backside. And with its three chrome legs, it looks like something the Flintstones would receive from the Jetsons!

Designer: Matthijs Kok

Author: Sarang Sheth

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RoboChop Cuts Foam Blocks at the Whim of Website Visitors

Posted on 10/02/2015 by Shane McGlaun

Something cool is coming to CeBit in Germany this March, and it is called RoboChop. It’s not a half human, half robot cutting machine, it’s a robotic cutting arm. It’s designed to cut 20″ polystyrene blocks into shapes that people from the internet command it to cut.

Internet users can tell one of four RoboChop robotic arms what to cut out using a web app. Once the arm cuts out whatever they tell it to, their foam creation is boxed up and shipped out. I can only assume without some safeguards, the CeBit 2015 floor will be flooded with yellow foam penises.

The four arms will have 2,000 foam blocks to cut through during the course of the show, which runs from March 16-20, 2015. I’d wager the blocks will go quickly so if you want to make your own yellow foam wang, you’d better get in early.

[via The Verge]

Prime Swords Foam Swords Have Swappable Parts: Connectiblades

Posted on 23/06/2014 by Lambert Varias

Tyler Richins’ son Ben loves swords. Not only does he like playing with them, Ben also asks his dad to draw different sword designs. This inspired Tyler to come up with Prime Swords, which are foam swords with interchangeable parts.

Each Prime Sword has three main parts that can be swapped: the hilt, the crossguard and the blade itself.

Tyler’s main goal is to release his Eon and Riven designs. He also has three dragon-themed designs, but they’re currently locked as stretch goals in Prime Swords’ Kickstarter.

Swing your browser to Kickstarter and pledge at least $30 (USD) to get a Prime Sword as a reward.

[via Daily Dot]

Turn Any Floor into an 8-bit Video Game Map with These Tiles

Posted on 20/06/2014 by Conner Flynn

Sometimes I really miss those old epic quest RPG gaming titles like The Legend of Zelda. Nothing today really captures the excitement I felt back then while playing those games. These Quest 8-bit Mats sets from JBox are the perfect way to relive those old games. Plus, you can cross the entire map in like a few steps. That would have taken forever in game.

Each set sells for just $6.85(USD) and comes with four blocks: two base tiles and two “special” tiles. They measure about 1-foot square by 1.5-inch thick, and are made from foam, so they should last awhile and are light weight. Each mat features something different. Some have fields, boulders, bricks and even treasure boxes.

If you buy a few sets, there’s really no reason you can’t have a huge game of D&D on your floor. Just plop some figures down and you’ll be playing.

[via Walyou via Nerd Approved]

HeadFoams Children’s Headphones: Beats by Seuss

Posted on 28/05/2014 by Lambert Varias

A company called MarBlue has come up with a solution for kid-proof headphones that’s so simple you’ll regret not coming up with it and getting mad funds on Kickstarter. They’re called HeadFoams, a pair of headphones with its electronics encased in soft, flexible and non-toxic EVA foam. In short, they can stand up to this:

Wow. And I thought my TMA-1 was tough. MarBlue also limited the headphones’ output to 85dB to protect children’s ears.

You can order HeadFoams from MarBlue for $40 (USD). They’re probably not going to earn rave reviews on Head-Fi, but hopefully they can survive long enough until your kid knows what an audiophile is.

[via Cool Things]

Wrapped Around My Finger

Posted on 24/10/2013 by Radhika Seth

The Zero is yet another bottle packaging design that looks at extracting the very last drop of its contents. We saw a similar toothpaste design that used centrifugal force to drive all the toothpaste towards the mouth. The question here is, does this concept work or should designers put back their thinking caps and come up with something different? What do you say?

Designer: Yongwoo Shim

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Furniture Made Like Stretchy Fruit Packaging

Posted on 02/10/2013 by Hazel Chua

I’m sure you’ve bought fruit or had some at home when it was still wrapped snugly in the box in its foam rubber packaging. I remember my cousins and I fighting over who got the stretchy, accordion-like stuff whenever an adult would grab an apple or pear from the box, because it was a toy to us, not trash.

Getting inspiration from this same packaging is Japanese designer Keisuke Fujiwara.

I’m sure his chair’s designs look more than familiar to you, because they resemble that stretchy fruit packaging I was just talking about. The structure, the way the fibers cross and intersect with one another, and the shape of the chair screams “I was inspired by the foam rubber packaging that protected your fruit while it was in transit!”

Apparently, they also feel like the rubbery packaging too, because the chairs are described as being “pillowy soft” and “moldable.” They’ll also “wrap around” anyone who sits in them, making for a very comfortable piece of furniture.

[via PSFK via TAXI]

This Chair Has Plenty of Balls

Posted on 14/05/2013 by Hazel Chua

You can be a romantic by wanting to lay yourself down on a bed of roses, but I’d rather be comfortable and lie down on a bed of foam balls instead. Not just regular foam balls because they’ll clearly roll all over the place, leaving you to lie on nothing but the hard floor.

Rather, I mean the Feel Seating System Deluxe. While it can be used in the home, it’s also office chair, but it looks far from being a chair – and for the office, at that.

feel seating system red

The entire thing is comprised of 120 fabric-covered balls that are linked together with elastic strands. You’re not limited to just having a chair with the Feel Seating System, since the buckles on the edges let the user reconfigure the shape. Push and move the balls around to come up with a recliner, or flatten it some more to make a cushy bed.

feel seating system red 2

The Feel Seating System Deluxe costs $7,950(USD). It’s steep, I know, but where else can you find an office chair that’s as comfortable, versatile (and productivity eliminating) as this? Fortunately, there are smaller, significantly less expensive versions for kids and smaller adults.
feel seating system blue

[via Neatorama]

Watch this smart foam chair ‘grow’ and unpack itself

Posted on 05/04/2013 by Mat Smith

Sometimes we dream. We dream of a world with no more flat-pack furniture, no more obtuse construction manuals and no more missing screws. Smart foam tech might get us closer to those admittedly small-time dreams. Using cross links within the foam's particle arrangement, regardless of how much the structure is compressed, it'll spring back to the predesigned shape. Designer Carl de Smet adds that the product would expand at a set temperature getting a little doughy in the middle, then more solid at room temperature.

He also demonstrates another smart foam structure which changes when a current is fed through it. Electricity provides the heat that transforms the rolled-up structure into a flat one, with the current experimental version taking around five minutes to completely settle. Commercial products which are apparently only about a year to 18 months away and as de Smet details in the video, could land on store shelves in a compacted rolled-up form for "unpacking" back home. These early examples can even be adjusted, if for some reason you suddenly decide you wanted a coffee table, not a chair. Sit back and see how it literally unfolds after the break.

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Source: BBC News

DARPA Fills Bodies with Foam to Save Lives

Posted on 10/12/2012 by Technabob

I’m frequently impressed with the projects coming out of DARPA, but most of the stories I’ve come across have been about their advances in robotics and defense systems. This new technology is designed specifically to save lives of wounded soldiers and civilians, and it does it with a simple spray foam.

arsenal darpa foam

A foam-based technology has been developed which is designed to fill in the spaces in an injured victim’s abdominal cavity, creating pressure in the voids, and substantially reducing blood loss from internal bleeding. In fact, early tests have shown a six-fold reduction in blood loss, and a dramatic increase in 3-hour survival rates from 8 percent to 72 percent. The foam was developed for DARPA’s Wound Stasis program by Arsenal Medical.

The foam is injected into the patient’s abdomen using a two-part compound that expands when mixed together. The foam then conforms to the inside of the body cavity, slowing internal bleeding. Once the patient can be stabilized at a hospital, the foam can be removed by a surgeon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT1d6jxKwpk

While the idea of filling my body cavities with something similar to that spray foam insulation really sounds awful, I suppose I’d subject myself to it if it meant the difference between living and bleeding to death.

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