A street bench made of thermoplastic elastomer pages. When dirty or wet, just turn the page like a book to seat on dry surface.
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Oh man, thats pretty amazing.
great for homeless dudes, out there every day scratching a living from fighting other hobos for food
Nice design…but I think the extra page would be too much extra cost for a public project…and it would be vulnerable to breakage. why not invest the extra money in making sure the plastic repels water….making it so that the rain rolls off the plastic. This would simplify the design, prevent future damages in the extra hardware, and cost ALOT less for the city to make…and we all know that government funded projects need to be as sufficient and inexpensive as possible in order to get approval!
wow brilliant!
if you flipped the ‘page’ as it occurs in the image, from where it is now back over to the left, wouldn’t it be inverse of the peice below it?
I don’t think so,
the “page” is made with a thermoplastic elastomer,
so my guess is that it would bend with the gravity…
…adapting its shape to each side.
A nice initial idea but you will trap the water between the two surfaces that are wet when you flip them together. It needs a more textured surface and holes for drainage. Why specify “thermoplastic” though, it is not like we would think it was thermoset?
great observation. really cool stuff
I’m not sure if I would like to find what’s trapped between the pages on a Sunday morning.
Maybe if it came with a butler.
Despite the obvious flaws, it is a neat idea, and I would love to see it.
I like the idea but I dont think it works because nasty stuff wil get between the pages and the water between can not get away and will stink so it makes the problem worse, but youre almost there…
Looks cool, but what if both of the sides are wet? :S
Useless except for the first time it is used. After that, both pages are dirty or wet. Basically, you lose the back of a chair for an essentially useless feature.
nice design, but EWWW ALL THE BACTERIA THAT WOULD BREW under the wet page, not being dryed up! You’d start to see black spots immediately! Then, who will REALLY want to sit on it?
heat & cold will render this seat useless in short order,idea is good ,but only on paper
no comon sense used in this design………this seat is a bacteriological nightmare
Yeah i like it, homeless people will be able to use the pages as blankets as well.
I can’t believe that so many are discussing the benefits of this design for homeless people! here’s a thought….use the money for funding housing projects; something tells me homeless people may prefer a roof over there heads as opposed to a cold wet sheet of plastic!
A post-it pad would be a rotten public fixture.
As a passerby I would hate to feel obligated to “turn the page” on someone’s vomit.
Thanks Brenda. At last someone sensible! and just for the record, I think it’s a great design but only for particulars. Because I’m 99% sure that even if you guys complain about bacterias, dirty-greasy papers left on banks or parks, stains of coffee or dirt on public seats, you’re all are neither the firsts or the lasts to leave a ‘trail’…….
cool stuff, but it would be impossible to implement (
I find that idea very nice!
But I wouldn’t use that for public benches, but more like in my garden! ^_^
so…apparenty this thing cleans itself?
Nice Idea, but… is it vandal-proof ?