{"id":1910,"date":"2013-03-06T04:30:02","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T23:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=1910"},"modified":"2013-03-05T23:39:02","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T18:09:02","slug":"drm-chair-only-works-8-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/drm-chair-only-works-8-times\/","title":{"rendered":"DRM Chair only works 8 times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if DRM (Digital Rights Management) wasn&#8217;t enough in the digital world, the boffins at the <i>University of Art and Design in Lausanne, Switzerland<\/i> have created a chair where you can only sit on it for a total of 8 times. After which the chair falls apart and you need to buy a new chair. Yes, you read that correctly, you can only sit on this chair 8 times. Although to be fair I can think of some really good practical jokes that can be played with this chair \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The design of the chair is fairly simple; all the joints of the chair are cast in wax with a piece of nichrome wire embedded in the wax. An Arduino with a small switch keeps track of how many times the chair has been used, while a solenoid taps out how many uses are left in the chair every time the user gets up. When the internal counter reaches zero, a relay sends power through the nichrome wire, melting the wax, and returning the chair to its native dowel rod and wooden board form.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hopefully folks will realize that this is not really practical and not decide to release it as an actual product. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href='http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2013\/03\/04\/drm-chair-only-works-8-times\/'>Hack a Day<\/a> for the initial story.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if DRM (Digital Rights Management) wasn&#8217;t enough in the digital world, the boffins at the University of Art and Design in Lausanne, Switzerland have created a chair where you can only sit on it for a total of 8 times. After which the chair falls apart and you need to buy a new chair. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-my-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1915,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions\/1915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}