In 1956 on NBC Charles and Ray Eames introduced their Lounge Chair which has become one of the icons of Modern Design and is part of the permanent collection in New York’s MOMA.
Original versions in good condition can fetch around $4,000 on ebay. I have one, but that’s only because I found it on the street in San Francisco’s Mission district. It’s pretty beat up but a very early version (possibly first year production) and I con only imagine that the grandkids threw out grandpa’s old chair having no idea what a treasure they had.
A few weeks ago my industrial arts collective Kinetic Steam Works tested our traction engine, Pappy. Yours truly makes several appearances and is seen far right in the preview image above.
Will small helpless robots arrive at their destination? The creator, kacie kinzer, writes:
Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination displayed on a flag, and rely on people they meet to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach their goal.
The results were unexpected. Over the course of the following months, throughout numerous missions, the Tweenbots were successful in rolling from their start point to their far-away destination assisted only by strangers. Every time the robot got caught under a park bench, ground futilely against a curb, or became trapped in a pothole, some passerby would always rescue it and send it toward its goal. Never once was a Tweenbot lost or damaged.