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Designers Create Meat Eating Furniture

Posted by samzenpus on from the eating-the-couch-potato dept.

Sonny Yatsen writes "NPR's Robert Krulwich explores the work of several designers who are working on carnivorous furniture. These creations, include a clock that feeds on dead flies, and a table that lures mice into a guillotined death. 'We want robots to be able to get their own energy from the environment,' says co-designer Prof. Melhuish. Let's hope they come up with a lounge chair that eats cockroaches sometime soon."

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  1. I think I'll pass...... by NiteShaed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dad: "Honey, where are the kids?"
    Mom: "They're playing by the couch"
    Couch: "Burp"

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  2. Insectivorous furniture by RNLockwood · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Hey, see my new high tech chair? It gets its energy from eating cockroaches. (Wonder what it does with the energy?) Hmm, in order to stay alive it will need a continual supply of cockroaches so I'll need to make sure that my dwelling stays infested; but if it gets them all perhaps I can buy crickets at the pet store. This should bump up my value as a prospective mate a lot and help to get me laid. At the very least it will be great to sit in and watch Fox News."

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  3. The obvious power source for a chair is... by outsider007 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Farts. I'm charging mine right now.

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  4. Re:Excrement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Right - because then we'd have fly ash!