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Designing furniture via cell phone

By Rain Noe - December 18, 2008

in Object Culture

The mTable is a piece of furniture you can design and have built via, get this, a cell phone.

Not just any cell phone; specifically the Nokia 7650 or later. You download an app from the mShape website, "sculpt" the shape using the app, beam it back to the company, and a milling machine/human carpenter combo spits it out somewhere in Switzerland. No prototyping, no renderings, no mock-ups; let's hope you get it right the first time!

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Christopher B

15 years ago

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Why would I want to design a table on my cell phone? Am I so busy that I have to do my furniture shopping while stuck it traffic?
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Andy

15 years ago

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Cool technology, but poor execution. In the end you get a table with a bunch of holes in it! Why not design the system to allow folks to customize the outer profile of the table?
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