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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. Great... by Caradoc · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The cost of bookshelves will go up because people can't (or won't) RTFM.

    Am I the only one who sees a certain irony in this?

    In any case, you can't make anything foolproof - as soon as you do, someone breeds a dumber fool.

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