It’s either the ultimate in couch comfort or a totally bizarre idea dreamed up by a pair of designers obsessed with neuroscience. Either way, the “Brainwave Sofa” is clearly a one-of-a-kind piece of furniture. The couch’s lumpy, bumpy shape is a three-dimensional version of a brain scan, specifically a three-second recording of designer Lucas Maassen’s alpha brain waves as he closed his eyes and thought of the word “comfort.” Data from the electroencephalograph was processed by BioExplorer, a 3-D visualization program, and then fed directly into a milling machine that cut the shape out of soft foam.
“The process is a wink to a rather futuristic design process,” the couch creators wrote in a press release, “for which a designer merely has to close his or her eyes, or merely rest, to have the brain do all the work, and create the data needed to have the CNC machine cut the shape of the sofa.”
The Brainwave Sofa will be on display at the Bits ‘n Pieces Exhibition in New York. If you happen to stop by the show, please have a seat on the brain couch — and let us know if it’s comfy. Or just weird.
SOURCE: Wired.com
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Linda
8 months ago
Why am I the only one commenting? Come on the rest of you…..
I was wondering if this brainwave couch was specific to the person. My ‘comfort’ brain wave may be different. Weird idea. My idea of comfort is an air mattress on a cool lake on a warm day……….mmmmmmmmmmMmmm….. that capital M is a little larger wave made by a boat going by slowly.