Designers Create Meat Eating Furniture 120
Sonny Yatsen writes "NPR's Robert Krulwich explores the work of several designers who are working on carnivorous furniture. These creations, include a clock that feeds on dead flies, and a table that lures mice into a guillotined death. 'We want robots to be able to get their own energy from the environment,' says co-designer Prof. Melhuish. Let's hope they come up with a lounge chair that eats cockroaches sometime soon."
I think I'll pass...... (Score:5, Funny)
Dad: "Honey, where are the kids?"
Mom: "They're playing by the couch"
Couch: "Burp"
Insectivorous furniture (Score:5, Funny)
"Hey, see my new high tech chair? It gets its energy from eating cockroaches. (Wonder what it does with the energy?) Hmm, in order to stay alive it will need a continual supply of cockroaches so I'll need to make sure that my dwelling stays infested; but if it gets them all perhaps I can buy crickets at the pet store. This should bump up my value as a prospective mate a lot and help to get me laid. At the very least it will be great to sit in and watch Fox News."
The obvious power source for a chair is... (Score:4, Funny)
Farts. I'm charging mine right now.
Re:Excrement (Score:2, Funny)
Right - because then we'd have fly ash!