The Robotic Chair

A chair on its own.
The Robotic Chair falls to pieces and then manages to build itself up again. With the help of a built-in camera, the robot can search for its missing parts and put them to their proper places.
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The Heat sensitive Lamp

In the ‘Heat-Sensitive Lamp’ example, the lamp takes its shape as the lamp is turned on for the first time, its material composition determined by the heat of light bulb. This example highlights electricity as an essential material in the design of a lamp – in fact, energy itself participates in the design of the aesthetic form of the object.
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Walls With Ears

A traditional textile heritage is celebrated with flocked wallpaper that comes to life as it reacts to ambient noise levels. The louder the space the brighter the wallpaper glows. It explores the experience of human presence and action having a tangible effect on space and provides a direct and analogue reflection of this by addressing the point where ambient space ends and surface begins.
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Katazukue

Katazukue is a table which ensures it is always clear. The table has a powerful pair of integrated conveyor belts which periodically move anything on the table onto the floor. On another level the piece is intended as a metaphor for technology generally - technology both gives us something as well as taking something away from us.
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Instant Labeling Tape

This is a simple, customisable, do-it-yourself signage system. By "blacking out" elements of a 14-segment display font on the tape, all you need is a black permanent pen to create your own temporary signs, labels and installations.
...rolls are 65 metres.
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PixelShade

Pixel Shade is a 'light shade' that forever renews itself and can temporarily 'print out' any kind of digital information continously on the large phosphorescent shade. Patterns can be any image from your holiday in greece to elaborate william morris prints.
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Power Point

Power Point is designed to make visible the amount of power being consumed by each mains socket in a direct and immediate way.
It can send information through existing power cables, and pass information about patterns of power consumption to a central database or turn off sockets pre-defined as nonessential in the event of power failure.
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Sketch Furniture

Is it possible to let a first sketch become an object, to design directly onto space? FRONT has developed a method to materialise free hand sketches. They make it possible by using a unique method where two advanced techniques are combined. Pen strokes made in the air are recorded with Motion Capture and become 3D digital files; these are then materialised through Rapid Prototyping into real objects.
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Plable

Plable is a table with a normal surface on the topside and an ‘imaginary’ playworld underneath. The idea is that children can build their own playland underneath the table while adults interact by moving objects – a cup of tea or a newspaper – on the topside to trigger events underneath.
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