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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."
...excellent for congress.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
But were the hipsters necessary?
At least we can be sure that Ikea isn't interested, since their chair already do that by default.
(And I had a good laugh about the article :)
Coz eternity my friend, is a long *ing time.
This is not DRM; it is product-life expiration. DRM would be if the chair had GPS and would melt itself if moved further than 200ft from its location of first use.
Chairs like that have been around for years.
Should I decide to accept it?
Have gnu, will travel.
Harbor Freight has perfected this technology ages ago.
I'm sitting in a chair at the dealership where I bought my new car 19 months ago, waiting for the service department to come back and tell me my failed brake caliper is "normal wear and tear."
Looks down at my chair suspiciously...
Digital Rights Management?
There isn't anything "digital" about a chair that needs rights management. You cannot use a chair multiple times by making a digital copy of it, nor can you transfer a digital copy of your chair to your friend. In fact the ability to use a chair requires that you physically have it. Now if this "rights management" somehow prevented you from making a *copy* of the chair, then it might be some kind of example, but it's certainly NOT an example of DRM.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
This is called Planned Obsolescence
No, this is Programmed obsolescence. Planned obsolescence depends on statistics. This is much more reliable, and should really help with the spreadsheets.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
WHY?
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We need this to protect the livelihoods of furniture makers in America. This will save millions of jobs. Imagine the horror of a person buying a chair and using it upwards to an infinite amount of times!
Well most if not all of the customers of the healthcare industry do have some kind of planned obsolescence built in.
You wouldn't download a movie that falls apart after 8 uses would you?
Most are well beyond their "best before" date by the time they get elected. Since it's wasteful not to use them at all, I'd say give them a single chance. At least they'd be voting for something they "truly believe in". Given the current amount of actual change congress and the senate make happen lately, I doubt this limited use will have any true effect on the country at all.
I was promised a flying car. Where is my flying car?
I once "inherited" a cheap couch that was designed to cut through some foam padding after minimal use and become uncomfortable. I say it was intentional because it would take forethought and malice design a couch with metal wires against foam that would obviously fail in this fashion.
Competition Good, Monopoly Bad.