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Folding chairs are usually a design exercise in functionality. Making sure your chair folds into something nice and slim, and opens out into a good, comfortable, fully functional chair. You’ll seldom find a single folding chair that is designed to look elegant in both it’s folded and unfolded avatars.

Ollie’s the kind of foldable chair that you’d display grandly in your home, whether kept open, or closed. Its design is nothing like any foldable chair you’ve seen before, and truly so, since it comes from a design company known for their amazing kinetic sculptures! Made by RockPaperRobot (a truly inspiring woman-led company based out of Brooklyn), the Ollie takes inspiration from its surroundings. The chair has a unique folding design that makes it only 2 inches thin when folded, and looks like an innocuous piece of art. When opened out, it becomes a rather sturdy chair with built-in lumbar support, making it not just beautiful, but incredibly comfortable too. The chair’s construction uses Aluminum sheets and a beautiful looking flexible wooden tambour made out of Teak wood, making it great for both outdoors as well as indoors.

Ollie’s magic is in the way it gracefully opens and closes. With a movement that seems almost like a magic trick, the chair opens out wonderfully and one simple string on the back can be pulled to close the chair back into its sheet avatar. In both closed as well as open formats, Ollie looks nothing short of a work of art. In fact, the tambour surface makes a great canvas for any artistic work, so you have yourself a chair when you need one, and a custom painting to proudly display when you’re done (instead of most flexible chairs that get stored in your closet).

The Ollie is perfect for both homes as well as outdoors. Its wooden/metal aesthetic makes it go well with almost any decor, and trust me, you’ll be impressing your guests for a long time with its hypnotic folding/unfolding technique! A complete marvel of design and manufacturing… Or should we say ‘woman’ufacturing!

Designers: Jessica Banks & Pete Schlebecker

BUY IT HERE: $300.00 $450.00

Cameron Hoerth documente la vie de ces skaters du Wisconsin dans sa dernière série pour TRIP Magazine. Ses noir et blanc exaltent avec poésie les gestes parfaits de ces jeunes. Une série pleine de poésie, de sincérité et de beauté brute.

Following last week’s healthy debate around a conceptual looping skyscraper in New York, a newly proposed tower that would hang from an asteroid drew a similar response from readers, which is summarised in our latest comments update.

Down to earth: Clouds Architecture Office suggested suspending the Analemma Tower, which would be the world’s tallest skyscraper, from an asteroid to get around terrestrial height restrictions.

“What’s architecture without utopia?” asked Eugenio Laponte, defending the concept.

Some readers, such as Atlas, were completely dismissive of the extreme plan: “What a complete waste of time.”

Mies van der Float felt the office deserved praise for their originality: “I’d like to have a pint in this tower someday and toast these blokes for daring to be visionary.”

One reader suggested the architects may be better off going back to school:

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Devilish: the proposed 666 Fifth Avenue skyscraper, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects for the Kushner family, raised eyebrows over its phallic form.

Commenter davvvvid clearly felt it was an appropriate design from ZHA: “Finally, a proper home for Patrik Schumacher’s oligarch friends.”

Geofbob suggested an alternative use for the building that would be of interest to Jared Kushner’s father-in-law Donald Trump: “Lay it on its side as a contribution to the wall”.

“I, for one, welcome the coming of Satan’s glass dildo,” stated a sarcastic Wathaniel.

This reader felt the situation made total sense:

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R-rated: Tucker Viemeister’s anti-Trump symbol, based on Nazi concentration camp badges, seemed to cause the level of offence usually attributed to its target.

“It’s an insult to all who perished in the Nazi concentration camps” stated apsco radiales.

Herbanter544 questioned the designers motives: “This boring anti-Trump hysteria is looking more and more like cheap self promotion, wearing a pantomime revolutionary mask.”

“You must be confused and acknowledging Trump’s ode to distaste and snake salesman tactics portrayed by his red ‘Make America great again’ hat,” fired back Guisforyou.

Not all were disappointed by the design, although this reader felt it may have still missed the mark:

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Clean eating: Iftach Gazit’s food bags that can be cooked in the washing machine during a spin cycle received a mixed response from Dezeen readers.

“I appreciate thinking ‘outside the box’ but in a world encouraged to wash at 30 or 40 degrees I can’t see how this is a practical thought process,” wrote yetitechture.

SteveLeo seemed to appreciate the visual element of the design: “Very cool and graphically clever.”

Felipe Balbuena saw vast potential in the idea. “Could they not be used to feed people in places of food shortages, maybe where disasters have occurred?”

However, not everyone felt the bags were a sensible solution:

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Did you naively think cyborg technology was relegated to anime and future generations? Think again, and consider investing. The new Neuralink Corp. made waves yesterday after a report in the Wall Street Journal announcing its intention to advance Brain Computer Interface (BCI) systems via cortical implants. Their proposed type of BCI tech can be applied to health systems, addressing conditions like epilepsy and chronic depression, but the long goal is brain-powered computing, as well as computer-powered brains. In short: they want to make brain chips that will help us keep up with AI. For this we can obviously thank (or doubt) Elon Musk, the reigning MVP of cool speculative tech, the jillionaire voted “Most Likely to Become A Benevolent Dictator,” and the man running an entire non-profit dedicated to making sure AI don’t get too evil.

It might seem slightly counter intuitive that someone deeply (even politically) concerned about an AI apocalypse would be working to advance a cortical interface that would push humans towards computer augmented thinking. But, as it stands, Musk is most engaged with the idea of facilitating the advancement of human cognition. He has said many times that he believes syncretic human-computer combination is necessary for continued species growth, particularly in the face of the looming singularity. He must have really intense dreams.

Musk is on record asserting that, “Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence,” and is already a public supporter of research on neural lace tech. He’s even been making his patented veiled Twitter promises for more info. While often cryptic, and regularly creepy, he rarely fails to follow through. 

For now the Eminent SkyKing’s new project is extremely low profile—not much more than a logo, an email address, and a trending hashtag. But with his SpaceX/Tesla/Tunnels/OpenAI track record, we’re likely to hear a good deal more, sooner than expected.

Cool UX, Elon

For some fun examples of BCI being used for good (really!) check out the brain-aug teams who competed in last years “Cyborg Olympics” and try to stay hopeful about keeping up with Alexa.

While Tens Filter Sunglasses have been on our radar for a few years, today the brand launched their 2017 collection on Kickstarter. In just a few hours, the Edinburgh, Scotland-based sunglass brand (founded by three friends) has already exceeded……

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