DRM Chair Self-Destructs After 8 Uses

unts writes "Taking DRM further than it's gone before, a group of designers have built a DRM'd chair that will melt its own joints and destroy itself after 8 uses. The chair uses an Arduino and sensors to monitor the number of uses, then triggers the melting of a set of joints that hold it together, making the product unusable without some carpentry skills. The video of device at work is both amusing and a little disconcerting."

Comments

Re:Neat video and concept to prove a point

[Joce640k]

They weren't hipsters, they were Swiss.

Re:That's not DRM

[Anonymous Coward]

That's designed to prevent door/window leaks. The idea was that the water would run down the tube and out an open hole to below the car. Modern cars can still have similar tubes; my car has 4 of them - one for each corner of the sunroof.

Re:That's not DRM

[Hatta]

This is not DRM; it is product-life expiration.

The life of a DRM'd product artificially expires once the DRM servers are taken down. Product-life expiration is a feature of every DRM system.