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Look!: Eero Aarnio Ball Chair with Speakers

At least that's what I thought. Coming home from Helsinki the other day, these two chairs were sitting at one of the coffee shops in the terminal. Upon closer inspection there were actually two built in speakers located on the inside top of the chair along with a plug for your laptop. My guess is that this chair was a knockoff similar to the sphere, chair but nevertheless, a much more stylish way to kill some time at the airport rather than trying to lie down in between the bench arm rests.

(Re-edited from a post originally published 04.24.07)

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That's it. The Scandinavian & Nordic countries are just too darn well designed for their own good. This was in an airport? AN AIRPORT!!

posted by jennifer in sf on April 27th 2007 at 12:23pm
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Amen, jennifer!

posted by kate on April 27th 2007 at 12:31pm
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These are hot, but I tend to think seating in public places should be plastic, wood, or metal... it seems like they would be easier to clean regularly, and have fewer places for bacteria to grow.

posted by shani-o on August 22nd 2007 at 8:42am
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Very cool concept!

(Though having frequently ridden BART, which has cloth seats sticky with 30 years of hard use, I tend to agree with shani-o that public seating should be amenable to being hosed down.)

posted by wende in the twin cities on August 23rd 2007 at 7:00am
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Wende/Shanio: while I agree with you guys, somehow, Scandinavian countries (and Switzerland as well) manage to be very clean (its almost magical), i wouldn't be too worried.

But i would love something like this at home

posted by sanna on August 23rd 2007 at 7:41am
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Bookmans Bookstore in Tucson, Arizona had chairs very similar to these back in 2000 when I was in high school. They are pretty cool. I used to check out music and listen in those chairs with a good book.

posted by pocketgnome on August 26th 2007 at 11:47am
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Brilliant idea, although I wonder how many of these they can get away with, I imagine only expensive bars would have them. But maybe in the future every seat in the airport will be as cool as this one! I would love it if the office chairs in my workplace were like this. Maybe one day they will be cheap enough for it to be a possibility

posted by timada on November 18th 2008 at 8:00pm
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