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Pro-Active Furniture Assembly

Posted by Hemos on from the no-don't-put-it-in-there dept.

Gudlyf writes "Stavros Antifakos, of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, has designed "clever" furniture pieces with built-in microprocessors that could relieve the confusion, anger and frustration of putting them together. The idea includes a flat-pack furniture kit whose parts are fitted with cheap microprocessors that monitor what you are doing during assembly and will warn you if you are doing something wrong or dangerous."

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  1. What a 'Distraction' by Snafoo · · Score: 3, Informative

    This has, of course, already been prefigured in sci fi; someone at that company has been reading Bruce Sterling.

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  2. Sounds familiar... by mahlen · · Score: 2, Informative

    This sounds an awful lot like the building materials that told people (vocally, not via screen) how to assemble them into a building from Bruce Sterling's novel Distraction. Don't need skilled labor if the bricks tell you what to do. Very interesting to see this in the real world.

    mahlen

    I defend myself by saying that, although this seemed immoral to me, it also seemed as though it wouldn't ever work anyway. --Fred Pohl, "The Coming of the Quantum Cats", ca. 1985