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Well ain’t that nifty.  This couch, which looks like you’re everyday trendy lounger, transforms into a bunk bed.  It’s even got a set of built-in guard rails and ladders.  How comfortable it is though is anyone’s guess, as is the price or availability.

One more pic after the ‘leap’ …Continue reading: Is It A Couch Or A Bunk Bed

In my mind relaxing means being on a white sanded beach or at home plunked down in front of the TV.  But if you’re always on the go and happen to have a few minions to help you drag your crap around, plus can’t find a better way to unwind than drowning your sorrows at the hotel bar, then you might want to take a look at the Pure Lady portable massage chair.

It’s finished in synthetic leather and folds up into a neat little cube for easy storage or travel.  And don’t let this thing’s diminutive size fool you.  The Pure Lady can massage the whole body including the calves, feet, back and waist – well, almost the whole body.

No word on price, but there’s a product page, so it’s gotta exist some where.

[via Ubergizmo]

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This may well be a truly pompous pronouncement, but the worst of it is that this sheer pomposity is in the NAME of the product.  From Hammacher Schlemmer, it’s called the Only Whole Body Massage Chair, and it is, pretty much, what it says on the box.  It is a full body massage chair that will deliver, at the press of various buttons, Shiatsu, penetrating kneading, and gentle traction to over twelve hundred square inches of your body.  It also includes twenty two inflating air cells in JUST the armrests for massage, and optical sensors that the chair will actually use to build a complete program of massage around your body.

Not bad for a $6,000, huh?

Now, seriously, while this definitely sounds like it delivers in every particular, I can’t help but find something truly ego maniacal about TITLING your product Only Whole Body Massage Chair.  It’s like buying, for example, Only Good Showerhead In The Store, or maybe Every Other Pancake Mix Tastes Like Rat Poison.

But when you deliver as well as this seems to, maybe you’ve got a right to a bit of egomania.

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When I was ‘corporate’, to combat long and drawn out meetings bosses would implement the ’standing meeting’.  In short, employees were required to physically stand during the meeting which in turn would force them to get down to brass tacks.

The TimeTable incorporates a similar philosophy, but instead of requiring workers to stand a set of LED lights built-in to the translucent surface of the table countdown indicating how much time is left for them to present.   Once the total meeting time has transpired a record voice is played to let them know their time has expired.

The TimeTable is currently a design only, but they’ve got a working prototype up and running at the “The Cole” building at Wieden and Kennedy London.

[via BornRich]

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Bear with me for a sec and think Cookie Monster.  Yeah, this Cookie Monster: yum, yum, yum, yum, yum.

The shark bean bag chair is both brilliant and scary.  And how fitting that an Australian retailer should carry it.  You know, because they surf a lot and from my understanding they have their more than fair share of run ins with the razor sharp toothed fishies.

It’s $19.95 AU, and you’ll need to bring your own beans. 200 litres worth to fill its hungry stomach, otherwise you’ll be sitting on a polyester shark skin.

Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum!

[via BBG]

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Break out the chocolate, marshmallows and graham crackers!  The ‘Fire’ coffee table features a mini fireplace on its surface, which comes in your choice of an ebony high gloss, colored or natural stone finish.  It burns some sort of bio-ethanol, which I can only assume is free of smoke and other carcinogens since it will be at the center of your living room.  Pricing starts at about $4,300.

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Step stools are practical and all, but a complement to your kitchen’s stainless steel appliances and rain forest safe wood finish, I think not. The Franklin Chair looks and functions like an everyday chair, but with a quick flip of its top half and you’ve got a sturdy and completely functional step ladder. It’s available in white, black or oak for $149.99.

[via Craziestgadgets]

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While the iBum Chair will most certainly hold its place as a testament for societies’ need to photocopy their body parts, there is an allure that seems to be missing.  I mean, after all the whole point of photocopying your ass, hand or squished face is that the machine was never built for that purpose.  But put it in a chair and make its sole purpose that of one that creates carbon copies of people’s rear ends and you suddenly have an uncomfortable chair that not only invades your privacy but is so obvious in its purpose that it deters anyone from dropping trow.  Then again I’m sure some solid art work could be garnered out of this machine, and by art I mean…well, you should know what I mean.

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Providing a sense of self is always important in a child’s development .  There to take that principal to new heights, or perhaps lows, is the ThreeStyle, a door with, well, 2 doors built into it.

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Some days I just wanna fly away on a jet plane, or how ever the song goes.  Now my fantasy, well, ah, can be a more vivid fantasy.  From design Gianni Pedone comes the Orfojet armchair.  Unfortunately, its bark is bigger than its bite, as the jet engine design appears to be aesthetics only.  But the Orfojet armchair isn’t completely void of entertainment.  Integrated into the arms are speakers as well as a CD/MP3 player.  The chair will be on display as part of the Morfonauta collection at this year’s Milan Design Week.

[DesignBoom]