It feels everything

Aug 9, 2007 15:23 GMT  ·  By

Chairs and tables that constantly change their color in your house to match your mood sounds like? magic!

Dreamed up by a Japanese design company, the Fuwapica furniture follows with the power of technology one of the country's ancient notions that gods inhabit every manmade artifact. The designers said that the furniture should interact with people instead of being mere inert and colorless objects. The new furniture developed by Japanese researchers uses sensors embedded in the table-top that work out the color of items placed upon it.

For example, the stools' color can change to match the color of whatever has been placed on the table-top. Sensors placed in the stools also work like scales and the heavier persons are treated with darker shades.

The control point for the four stools is the table. Sensors are placed beneath a glass plate on the table top in order to scan any object placed on it. A device inserted in the table 'gives a certain command' to the stools, which lightly begin changing their color to match the hues of the object placed on the table. Moreover, if you put various objects on the table (not just one), the system mixes the colors into one that will match all of the 'source' hues.

Everything seems OK and this new technology is really nice but you should learn to lie to your aunt and to tell her that darker shades are for slim people and explain her how the stools react for example at soporific farts and what the table 'thinks' about onion and garlic. Of course, it's all about colors for now, but I'm pretty sure that smells and eventually also sounds will follow. By the way, can you think of a color suitable for ?belches?

We're anxiously waiting for this multimedia furniture and strongly recommend all these honorable Japanese to head their research towards bedroom and bathroom furniture, since these rooms are more in need now than ever?Oh, and don't forget about our beloved pets and their little houses!