Apr 20
If you’ve seen the movie Wall-E, you remember the sad state that most humans had come to in the far future: so used to sitting around lazily that we lost the ability to walk around and get exercise, and depended in floating, motorized chairs to get us from place to place. Now, Iranian designer Mohamad Sadegh Darounkolayi has something that’s pretty close. It’s called the Supple, a chair that sits on top of a motorized ball that can go virtually anywhere.
To be fair, the design could be useful for people who are disabled or who need a motorized wheelchair to get around. All you have to do is point to where you want to go on a GPS-powered map and the chair will plot a course to get you there with minimal effort.
When it’s not in use or you’re not wheeling around in it, the ball on the underside of the Supple slides out and in front to work as a small table. Darounkolayi also envisioned the Supple with the ability to connect to other chairs to create larger vehicles with multiple wheels that can work together and get groups of people to the same location.
Even so, we weren’t the only people who saw the Supple and immediately thought of the hover chairs and blob-like humans from Wall-E: the folks over at DVice had the same reaction.
[via Yanko Design]
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