The Soyuz Chair
A collaboration of living room physics with the astronaut Jean-Pierre Haigneré who lifted off twice from earth in the Soyuz rocket, the Soyuz Chair designed by Design Interactions graduate Nelly Ben Hayoun, is a living-room chair that reproduces the three stages of the rocket launch as close to the original one as possible: the inclination of the chair, the frequencies of the vibration, the sound, etc.
The comfortable living room chair won't fly you into space but it will replicate the experience of a liftoff.
The chair comes with a remote for you to either choose the full 10 minute lift-off experience with three stages of intensity, or just the last 240 seconds - the most extreme stage of the journey.
The control panel which is built into the back of the recliner.
Photography Nick Ballon | More photos
The chair will be at the exhibition WHAT IF? Testing the boundaries of our future, running 09:10:2009 until 13:12:2009 at the Science Gallery in Dublin.
Via Designboom
