Imagine a world where all of the furniture you buy isn't just flat-packed, it can be condensed to five percent of its original size ready for you to take home. It's a future that Noumenon designer Carl de Smet wants to make a reality, by working with polyurethane shape-memory polymers (SMPs) to compress chairs and other pieces of furniture into flat slabs that can be easily stored and transported until they are ready to be used.
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/25/4264440/shape-memory-polymer-chair-expansion
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