Thought Changing Furniture (Update) - The Mind Chair Projects Into Your Head (GALLERY)

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Ayman Helweh
On: Jun 16, 08
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Remember The Mind Chair that Trend Hunter told you about back in February? That early polypropylene version of the chair was presented at the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition 2008 at MoMA in New York. It was created in collaboration between Peter Marigold and Beta Tank.

Well, designers Beta Tank have developed a fully working version of the Mind Chair. When you sit on it, the unique chair transmits moving images to your brain via a grid of solenoids on the chair back.

According to Dezeen, “The solenoids take imagery from a video camera to produce impulse patterns on the sitter’s back, which the brain interprets back into imagery.”

“While the Polyprop was a model which we built in collaboration with Peter Marigold, we have built a working version. This chair lives at the Moorefields Eye Hospital and we are setting up a lab where people will be invited to try and see with their skin,” Eyal from Beta Tank says.

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The Mind Chair is the creation of London designers Peter Marigold and Beta Tank and is an amazing chair that utilizes sensory substitution technology developed in the 1960s to send and display high-definition… [More]





Via: dezeen  


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Gee, that's not freaky at all. Can we please get some of these into the classrooms? ;)

By: Jeremy Gutsche on Jun 16, 08 | 1471 Trends | 955 Comments



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