Head Chaise: Couching One's Thoughts into a Brain Wave Sofa [Slide Show]
A neuro-feedback-contrived couch in Belgium that came literally out of one of the designer's heads
Head Chaise: Couching One's Thoughts into a Brain Wave Sofa [Slide Show]
- Simply Divan: The Brain Wave Sofa Upholstery to finish the job consisted of gray felt with buttons in the valleys. The alpha waves that inspired the contouring are present when your eyes are closed. Maassen and Verbruggen foresee the day when all they will have to do is close and open their eyes and a machine tool will start buzzing away... Dries Verbruggen and Lucas Maassen
- Catching the Right Wave From a long train of alpha waves, ranging over a course of minutes, Verbruggen and Maassen picked a three-second segment in which Maassen had repeatedly closed and reopened his eyes. "The role of the designer is challenged in this procedure," they remarked in a prepared commentary on their project... Dries Verbruggen and Lucas Maassen
- From My Brain to Your Machine Tool Lucas Maassen, a furniture designer from Eindhoven in the Netherlands, donned a cap with a handful of electrodes when working with Verbruggen during the fall on this project, which was funded by the Flemish government in Belgium... Dries Verbruggen and Lucas Maassen