Eco-Friendly 'Breathing Chair' Puts Your Butt On The Block | InventorSpot

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The "Breathing Chair", created by Taiwanese designer Yu-Ying Wu, has won the prestigious Red Dot Design award for 2009 in the home furniture design concept category.

The chair, which outwardly resembles a block of healthy organic tofu, is made of high-density foam plastic and though it looks white, it's really green: the foam is 100 percent environmentally-friendly and can be recycled when the time comes.

Yu-Ying Wu, who recently graduated from Taiwan-based Tatung University's Department of Industrial Design program, used mathematical calculations to arrive at the most effective arrangement of triangular "cells" that make up the body of the chair. Once coated with three layers of foamed plastic, the chair is able to automatically conform to the sitter's body regardless of the weight applied.

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