A chair to go?
Saturday, January 12, 2008 by level1librarian
The Take_a_seat project by Jelte van Geest looks like science fiction: a smart card / RFID activated chair that follows you around in the stacks, then returns automatically to its recharging station when you leave the library.
[video ca. 2 min]
A quick search revealed multiple news blogs citing the project as concept, nothing more. As one of the BotJunkie comments says, moving the chairs as a group in the video was clearly done with CGI. What I couldn’t figure out, though, was whether there is a functioning prototype or not. The DutchLibraries blog seems to imply that there is.
The concept surely is fascinating, and has more uses than just chairs. Can you imagine pages shelving books with a book truck in tow?
Via the Librarians LiveJournal community.
