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Playground fun meets grown-up furniture to make the ultimate sliding chair!

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Meet the ‘S-it chair’ – a chair that you sit on by sliding down its backrest!  This might be one of the most natural way to sit in my opinion but make sure you are not sliding in with drinks or snacks because adults have to clean up their own mess. The chair includes a ladder, a handrail, a backrest, and a seat that are all combined together to give us a playful modern piece of furniture. I can picture this in our homes and no one will suspect the amount of fun one can have with their own mini slide-chair!

Designer Shinji was inspired to create this fun design when he was visiting a local playground and went down the slide to bring back some of his fondest childhood memories. He happened to notice that the slope he just slid down had turned into a backrest given that a kid-size slide is practically a chair for an adult and that is how the ‘S-it chair’ came to be. The S-it chair would make a great addition to your yard or even inside office space because, let’s admit it, we all need that unconventional, out-of-the-box inspiration to get our creative juices flowing. Eccentric yet nostalgic with the right mix of functionality, the S-it chair is a piece that elevates what furniture design means for the designers and the end users.

It is perfect for a Netflix binge, a quiet reading session, or that morning lazy moment when you have to start work but don’t feel like it so you literally slide into your chair. This chair is 2021 essential!

Designer: Shinji Hishida

This entire shoe can be made in a single 3D print cycle

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I hate to make this reference just because it’s such a massive design and fashion faux pas, but the Armis picks up where the Crocs left off. The Crocs, as much as their appeal plummeted in mere years of them being around, revolutionized the ability for a shoe to be unibody. Aside from the strap, an entire Crocs shoe could be made inside a single injection-mold, and while it’s physically impossible for the Armis Slide to be made using a mold, it builds on the same theory… that one machine makes the entire piece of footwear, from toe to heel.

The Armis is a piece of slip-on footwear that gets made in a single 3D-printing cycle. Its design comes with two broad parts – the inner generative-designed mesh (it reminds me of the Adidas Futurecraft), and the outer covering, split into multiple parts that strategically shield your foot. The shock-absorbing inner mesh comes custom-designed to suit each individual wearer’s foot pressure-graph, allowing it to be soft in certain areas and harder at other regions. Based on this user data, a generative design algorithm creates the inner mesh and readies the shoe’s overall design by laying the outer shell on top. Once the final CAD file is ready, the entire shoe can be printed in one single sitting using resin-based 3D printing, hopefully bolstering what designer Shun Ping Pek calls the 4th Industrial Revolution.

It’s difficult to say how a shoe of this nature would be repaired if it ever got damaged, but I’m assuming there’s definitely an elastomer or an additive out there that can dramatically prolong the life of a shoe like this (I mean look at how incredibly resilient Crocs are). My personal concern is… what happens when you walk on gravel?!

Designer: Shun Ping Pek

The SLIDE table has a quirky, fun way of expanding and contracting to alter its surface area

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Designed to add a touch of chic and convenience to any home (although I can’t think of a person who needs this more than a bachelor), the Slide Table from Studio Lorier comes with a unique nesting design comprising three concentric circular table surfaces. When you need yourself a small side table, the Slide exists in its nested avatar, but lo and behold, when the lockdown ends and you start throwing house parties again, you can expand the table by sliding out its nested surfaces to increase its holding space! Plus, I’m honestly really digging that green lacquer finish on the table’s beechwood construction!

Designer: Studio Lorier

An algorithm could make CPUs a cheap way to train AI

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This modular keyboard design slides to double productivity!

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Our work desks are probably the most cluttered surface in our lives, what with our laptops or desktops, keyboard, books, stationery, etc. Add a tablet to the mix and its utter chaos! So, South Korean product designer Cheolsu Park designed ‘Slide’. Slide is a keyboard that doubles up as a tablet. A combination of a keyboard and tablet, Slide, as its name implies comes with a ‘sliding’ element.

The tablet can be easily pulled out or pushed in, enabling it to hide sneakily below the keyboard. With two products being packed into one, space is efficiently saved, bringing the usual clutter of your desk to a minimum. When you’re only using the keyboard, the tablet snugly remains a part of it. Park added a lock button to the product, pressing it prevents the keyboard from sliding up and down, keeping it firmly in position. The edges of the product have been centered using a weighty material, ensuring that the product does not tilt in its extended form, especially when you’re typing on the keyboard. Slide comes along with two tablet pens, designed especially to complement the product. They can be operated using the rounded controls on their body. The pen and tablet duo can be used for all your sketching needs! Sketch, doodle and scribble away without the need for an individual tablet to bring your creations to life.

Available in attractive shades of olive green, honey-yellow, neutral beige, and classic black, Slide is the two-in-one, space-saving desk product that could really make our lives easier. Portable and easy to use, Slide’s sleek looks also make it a head turner!

Designer: Cheolsu Park

An Air Circulator that you Slide to Unlock!

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Air Circulators come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, but this one is a little different! The Slide has been inspired by the ‘Slide to Unlock’ command that, until relatively recently, most of us used every day.

In order to operate the device the user must interact with the top section and ‘slide’ it horizontally, this action causes the hemispherical upper section to elegantly adjust to a more efficient angle.

On the front of the cylindrical body there are four touch buttons that allow for intuitive operation, these same four buttons are repeated on a handheld remote that neatly, and rather satisfyingly, docks into the charging terminal.

Slide’s designers also recognized that an air circulator’s use is seasonal, so easy storage is a must! The body-colored cable conveniently wraps around a section underneath the main body, keeping everything neatly contained!

Designers: Beom sic Jeon and Hooseong Lee

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The remote control is compact size and can be operated with the same four buttons as the main body. The charging terminal was applied to the front of the remote control, and it was charged automatically when it was stored in the main body. In addition, we applied the LED indicator to the bottom so that the user can check the remaining battery level.

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The front touch buttons are displayed with icons and are intuitive. The wind speed button and the timer button of the button can be turned on one by one, respectively, and the wind speed century and the timer time can be adjusted.

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The main cable can be stored on the floor when the product is not in use, and the power supply plug can be stored in the main unit.

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This Glass Slide on an L.A. Skyscraper Is Terrifying

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Heights. I hate them. Get me up on anything higher than a playground slide and I’m not comfortable. So there’s no way in hell I would be sliding down The Skyslide, which is a see-through glass slide fixed onto outside of the tallest building west of the Mississippi River. There is just no way.

Image: Richard Vogel/AP

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Image: Richard Vogel/AP

But if you are braver than me, the ride has just opened for business. You can pay $25(USD) to slide down 45 feet of bulletproof glass nearly 1,000 feet in the air. I have to hand it to them, this is a great revenue stream. Tourists and thrill-seekers will all flock to slide down the world’s shortest thrill ride, but I won’t be one of them.

It is part of OUE Skyspace LA, a rooftop observatory atop of the US Bank Tower that gives visitors 360º views of the city They say the glass can withstand hurricane winds or even an earthquake. I wouldn’t want to test that though.

[via BBC via Gizmodo]