Comments on: Laser Furniture

Laser Furniture

Riovanes — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:09:47 -0800

Sketch Furniture, aka Furniture Made With Frickin' Lasers. Swedish designers use motion capture technology to draw chairs and tables with light in mid-air. Their sketches are then built out of plastic by a laser into real pieces of furniture. Honestly, either one of these things would amaze me. I'm starting to like living in the future. (via bb)

By: subaruwrx

subaruwrx — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:24:37 -0800

Wow. Thats super awesome. I want any of those. Imagine the conversations over that... But I mean, come on... a 1 link fpp? Where is the wikipedia entries on lasers, swedish,and a dictionary.com link on furniture?

By: setanor

setanor — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:26:45 -0800

Yeah, you really should have linked each word with a definition, a detailed etymology and a some sort of web 4.0 mapping link for sweden in cosmological relation the closest blogger to you. This is amazing. I love process.

By: Riovanes

Riovanes — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:35:36 -0800

Sorry everyone! I probably also should have found out what model of laser that is and linked to the manufacturer so everyone can order their own laser furniture. /wrists

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:50:12 -0800

For the last time, single link posts to awesome stuff is totally 100% okay. Great bizarro furniture!

By: Farengast

Farengast — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:01:29 -0800

The instantaneous prototyping (The Frickin' Lasers) technology has been around for years. I remember being amazed when I heard about it in '99 or 2000. Still a great use for it though. And the computational techniques are impressive.

By: [insert clever name here]

[insert clever name here] — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:05:03 -0800

I just want the plastic tank thing. Oh the things I could make if I could feed a 3D model into it.

By: pointilist

pointilist — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:05:28 -0800

Oh I do want to do this. Glad there weren't alot of distracting links on the history of sketching and so on.

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:12:56 -0800

Cool idea, really, but I, personally, find the furniture rather ugly.

By: hortense

hortense — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:28:31 -0800

Birdhouse

By: zardoz

zardoz — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:09:19 -0800

Awesome. The laser-molded-plastic technology has been around for awhile, actually. I remember seeing a demo of it over ten years ago or so. I guess it's not yet cost-effective. But Swedes have got money to burn, so...

By: pracowity

pracowity — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:37:39 -0800

Simon would have loved this thing.

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:20:34 -0800

Cool idea, really, but I, personally, find the furniture rather ugly. I don't think it's ugly, but I don't think I could sit in one of those chairs for more than about ten seconds without getting a sore ass. Also, I like my tables to have flat tops and legs of equal length.

By: wumpus

wumpus — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:54:35 -0800

yeah, those swedish girls are hot! more videos please.

By: borq

borq — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 01:47:12 -0800

Nice project but completely useless imho: we see them drawing but they don't directly see what they are drawing except maybe on a screen which is like drawing in the mirror.. The combination of techniques is nicely found though.. The drawing-with-lights-technique is like PipsLab combined with 3d printing (around for a while but way to expensive to use in production environment) Using a VR goggle and glove would be more usefull bc you would be able to (forms)tools and use them to pe extrude them in VR.. I know they were working on this at the Tech. Uni. in Delft.. can't find a link to that project though, sorry

By: localhuman

localhuman — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 02:19:33 -0800

I'm starting to like living in the future. awesome. me too.

By: lapolla

lapolla — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 02:43:43 -0800

ahhh haha - pollomacho and peter mcdermott, you totally got it. first thoughts i had while looking at the site were: cool technology! butt-ugly furniture! ow, that chair looks... seriously uncomfy!

By: hal9k

hal9k — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 04:28:30 -0800

Bah. Been doing this for years without fancy lasers by blasting liqui-foam weather-stripping from a simple ratchet tube gun (me "Oozi"). Doesn't set as fast as I'd like so dressers and lamps sorta end up being throw rugs. And there is the sticking to the shoes problem so I now work in the nude. Difficult to explain. I'll make a video so you can see me caulk.

By: mendel

mendel — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 06:20:52 -0800

we see them drawing but they don't directly see what they are drawing That's the whole point! They sort of move their hands in a table shape, and then they get a table shaped like that.

By: speug

speug — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 07:12:13 -0800

Fascinating technology - a solution in search of a problem?

By: 40 Watt

40 Watt — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 07:24:30 -0800

Difficult to explain. I'll make a video so you can see me caulk. Caulk-tease.

By: anotherpanacea

anotherpanacea — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 07:50:48 -0800

Using a VR goggle and glove would be more usefull bc you would be able to (forms)tools and use them to pre extrude them in VR. Either my sci-fi/reality filter is breaking down, or it should be possible to have hologram projectors replicate the lines being filmed and stored. That way, they could process the movements of the pen, and create visible effects to be manipulated or erased. More lasers, eh? No, now that I think about it, that's just crazy.

By: geeky

geeky — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 07:50:57 -0800

Cool! I had no idea this kind of thing was possible. Living in the future, indeed.

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 22:17:59 -0800

I don't think the intent here is to design functional furniture. They're drawing in the air and it becomes tangible art. Short of turning iron into gold, this is an alchemist's dream: wave a magic wand around and voila! Instant worthless trinkets to sell to millions! This is worth diggin' Barnum out of the grave for.