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Posted by hipstomp | 23 Apr 2010
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I don't know if you want a bookshelf that can accidentally kill your sleeping cat, but this has to be one of the most original concepts we've seen. Or prototypes, we should say; artist David Garcia actually built this, it's not a Photoshop job.
One place where this thing would never work is in my apartment--crooked floors coupled with the vibration of the subway would send it rolling all over the place. It'd be just like having hyperactive dogs, where you come home and brace yourself while turning the knob to see what they've destroyed this time.
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hipstomp (and others with similar living situation), consider the following:
Convert the thing to be like a Ferris Wheel or similar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferris_wheel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_up
Also, if you know someone with feedback-control and electro-mechanical/mechatronics/robotics expertise, you can have them fashion a base that would balance it and then, similar to the jog dial on a remote, you could spin it and select the book you'd like. If you like a ton of risk in your life, you can then turn it into your personal hamster wheel (might want to take out a life insurance policy, just sayin').
Best,
Shalin
Cool, but there should be some book-end-like dividers in there so you don't take 1 book out and have to lift 100 to put it back. Maybe there are. Would be cool as a lounge instead of a hamster wheel, at least for the photo.
Hubless bookshelves are as cool as hubless wheels!
However, I think Brady did bring up a good issue...how to replace the books once removed.
Perhaps a hubless tweel concept would be a better solution. Not bad for an initial concept though...one of those "man, I wish I thought of that!" concepts.
And having a recumbent seat on wheels would be a good option too...with a set of electricity-generating pedals to power my non-existent iPad.
Yes...I do like this, but mostly for the potential of what it could be.
well thats awesome... i walk when i read. i have to... don't know why though.
*slow clap*
You just have to roll the thing so that the book you're moving or replacing is at the top - then no need to lift a hundred books. No room to roll it? Then why'd you build this thing in the first place?!
put the whole thing on two fixed floor mounted rollers and just spin it to get the open slot at the top. A lounger in the middle would be cool to. It could ride on an inside track & also be removable in case you wanted to use the whole thing as a treadmill / hamster wheel. Of course you'd need a holder to hold your book open while you hamster wheeled. then pop the lounger in after your jog and take a nap.
One word: Folio