David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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  • http://twitter.com/felixstang Felix Tang

    http://wearcam.org/seatsale/ – way back in the day, DRM chair.

    • David Pescovitz

      I sat in that very chair when it was exhibited at the San Francisco Art Institute! Great memory, Felix.

      • http://twitter.com/TimmoWarner Timmo Warner

        Did you pay for the license?

        • jackbird

          Who could remember?

  • Rhyolite

    Don’t give them any ideas…

  • Mike Robinson

    On the plus side, with 3D printing I can now just download a new one.

  • nathanroberts

    Pretty redundant, innit? Consumer products these days are so shoddily made they fall apart after about 5 uses anyway.

  • rocketpj

    Originally created by Ikea for a wide variety of furniture. Build it, move it once and it starts leaning/falling apart. The second move is to the dump.

  • Gerald Mander

    You can only sit in the DRM chair if you are in the Kindle house.

  • Finnagain

    Good, but there should be more explosions and shrapnel. And then the user should be sued.

    • Mike Robinson

      The chair should also have a webcam to report back your sitting habits

      • for_SCIENCE

        And the back should have an e-ink panel to advertise other sitting implements you might be interested in based on your past sitting.

    • Scratcheee

      I just realized that “sued” is an anagram of “used.”  

      OK, my work here is done.

  • Keith Tyler

    This is right up there with my Natural Rights Management Refrigerator.

  • http://www.facebook.com/clesoine Charlie Lesoine

    Glad to see brilliant minds hard at work on conversation pieces.

  • Andrew Reid

    Presumably this will lead to the immediate revitalization of the domestic furniture-manufacturing industry, and it will soon be as vital and innovative as the recorded-music and movie industries.

    • PhosPhorious

      Are you kidding?  When you can lend this chair to up to 8 friends? They need to make a model that can only be sat in by the purchaser. 

      Otherwise you are STEALING from the guy who designed the chair. 

      STEALING.

      • Finnagain

         It’s only legal if all eight friends use the chair at the same time, in the presence of the rightful owner.

  • arcduke

    The EULA Hotel in San Francisco is full of this furniture
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/cocoia/2870493736/

    • Antinous / Moderator

      It’s in their Mission statement.

  • liz

    This is art. Good job. Makes a statement about current cultural issue, easy to understand, creative.

  • ppival

    Why, it’s just like the Pig and the Box!

  • schadenfreudisch

    look at those outfits.  french students get me every time.

  • oasisob1

    Can someone do voiceover of this video commenting on the various fashions? I’m interested in the clothing. All different, yet somehow the same.

  • Emo Pinata

    Is it just me, or are they sitting down in a really awkward fashion?

    • Antinous / Moderator

      They’re not putting any weight on the chair.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=69202206 Erica Wheelan

    Now to find a way to use this for evil.