Hasta La Gadget!

Falling asleep while studying is a rite of passage for students of higher learning, so why shouldn’t college libraries install desks that made the occasional nap a bit more comfortable? Everyone from MIT to NYU should be calling up Russian designer Yaroslav Misonzhnikov and asking to buy his wonderful work desk with a secret spot for snoozing. More »

Every once in a while, I feel like being alone and that’s one of the times I feel extremely lucky and fortunate that we have a spare room in the house. Not that I’m a loner or anything, but I just like being able to get away from everyone and everything sometimes.

If I didn’t have a spare room to go to, then I’m sure something like the plastic-shelled Cocoon 1 would be totally up my alley. Although the price, not so much.

The Cocoon 1 is a piece of furniture that you can actually live in. It’s like the Cocoon Tent we saw earlier, only it’s made with a tough and clear material–and, well, it’s not a tent.

Designed by Swiss design group Micasa Lab, the Cocoon is cushy and roomy enough to let people sleep, eat, relax, and do whatever they want by their lonesome while they’re in it. The inside of the Cocoon is modular, so it can be configured as a living, working or even a cooking space. You can even get a Wi-Fi module for surfing the web inside of it.

The Cocoon 1 seems like a concept, but it’s actually an actual product that will be arriving sometime in Fall of 2013.

The only downside? The base model is priced at $2,990(USD), and goes up from there.

[Cocoon 1 via Yanko Design]

There’s nothing worse than wanting to sit down and relax, and the chair you sit in is hard as a rock and hurts your back and butt. Sitting is supposed to be comfortable. I’m a big fan of comfy chairs. This concept design could be the comfiest chair ever.

Designed by Yu-Ying Wu, the Breathing Chair is constructed of high-density foam, made from environmentally-friendly materials. When not in use, the chair is a big cube with rounded corners, but when you sit on it, the chair conforms to your body.

By layering thin sheets of of foam and putting triangular holes in them, the chair quickly changes form, and springs back to its original shape when you stand up.

The Breathing Chair sure looks comfy to me, but it’s only a design prototype at this point. Hopefully, a furniture company will pick up the idea at some point and produce these. I’d like to see a couch version too.

[via LFW]

Is there anything more relaxing than the back and forth motion of a comfy rocking chair? Of course there is—rocking while sporting a stylish knit cap you made yourself, which is made all the more easy with this rocking chair knitting machine. More »

The only silver lining to losing pocket change in your couch cushions is the windfall you’ll discover when you finally get around to cleaning it. But at best you’ll just recover all your losses; there’s no profit to be had there. Unless you encourage visitors to only use Sam Lomingshum’s brilliant change-stealing Artful Dodger rocking chair. More »