December 19, 2008

Designing furniture via cell phone

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The mTable is a piece of furniture you can design and have built via, get this, a cell phone. Core77 reports.

quotemarksright.jpg 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!quotesmarksleft.jpg