Kids Furniture

Family Uses Cray Y-MP Supercomputer To Decorate A Nursery

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:26:37 +0000

A family designs their child’s nursery like a laboratory. This kid is going to be a big geek. Story found at http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/lost-glory/5-million-cray-y+mp-
supercomputer-is-now-baby-furniture-265615.php

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10 Pieces of Unusually Awesome Kids’ Furniture [PICS]

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:26:26 +0000

Be honest, wouldn’t you have wanted stuff like this when you were growing up?

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Kids’ Tetris Furniture

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:26:02 +0000

I wish I had this when I was a kid…

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Japanese PC Case Mod “Sangaku” (Nice Photos)

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:25:37 +0000

Wow…this is one of the better Mods I’ve seen. Really nicely done. “The Sangaku Case Mod; It’s a fusion of computer technology with Japanese the furniture-making tradition. Sangaku translates to “mathematics tablet” in Japanese”

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The Ikea Hackers

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:25:25 +0000

Do-it-yourselfers and technogeeks, tinkerers, artists, crafters and product and furniture designers, the hackers are united only by their perspective, which looks upon an Ikea Billy bookcase or Lack table and sees not a finished object but raw material: a clean palette yearning to be embellished or repurposed.

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Amazing: Grow Your Own Furniture!

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:24:55 +0000

You can grow a stool or a table frame like these.
Fruit growers have been training trees to shape since we don’t know when, and furniture has been made of wood for thousands of years, so why not train trees to make furniture? I’ve proved that it can be done. All you need are three saplings, a plywood jig, instructions and a little patience.

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8 Highly Unconventional Bedroom Furniture Designs [PICS]

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:24:43 +0000

Most of us will spend approximately one-third of our lives in the bedroom. Some say the bedroom is the most important room in the house since it
?s where we go to recharge after a long day … but some of these insane designs might just keep you up all night trying to figure out how they are supposed to work.

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Furniture Made From Airplanes Lets Your Social Life Take Off

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:24:31 +0000

MotoArt is a company that builds custom furniture out of old airplane parts, turning a B-25 wing into a desk or a DC-3 propeller into a martini table.

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Bears Shutout Packers - Store Gives Out $300,000 in FREE Furniture

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:24:09 +0000

Furniture Store in Plano, IL holds a Labor Day promotion offering FREE furniture to customers who purchase furniture during Labor Day weekend if the Bears shutout the Packers opening day. Bears win 26-0. Store owner ready to give out refunds. (He had an insurance policy on the promotion).

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10 (More) Pieces of Clever Transforming Furniture (+PICS)

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:23:58 +0000

Why is transforming furniture so alluring? Does it appeal to our sense that innovation is progress, the fact that fewer materials for more uses is sustainable or simply a return to the childhood love of things that we can actively change and shape as we wish? Whatever the reason, these designs range from humorous and impractical to jaw-dropping…

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