Tom Flemons, who designed and packaged the Skwish, deserves the Nobel prize of tensegrity toymaking, as he put a tensegrity in the hands of millions of people and inspired all kinds of innovation. Tom should be proud to know that the toy continues to introduce people to tensegrity and its inherently natural, 60 degree coordination of tensive and compressive force.
Not too much detail in this video:
The skwish showed up this week in the blog of Teague designer Dana Krieger, as she announced her tensegrity-based concept headphones. A tension network of elastic bands enables these ear phone cups to fit more snugly and smoothly to any pair of ears, or so she claims. Krieger wrote,
Conventional headphones use a series of pivots and slides to locate the ear relative to the head. Executed in plastic and metal, these pivots squeak and rattle as they struggle to accommodate listeners. In contrast to this noisy intrusion, 20/20 leverages the unique properties of tensegrity to offer silent, organic motion.
As usual with claims of tensegrity efficiency, we will need to take a close look at the degrees of freedom in the headphones as opposed to any older pair. But still, it is nice to see a tension net as attractive as this.
Next--matching tensegrity earrings, anyone?
Links:
Flemons latest work: http://www.intensiondesigns.com/
Teague blog: http://www.teague.com/blog/
Video: TEAGUE 20/20 Concept from TEAGUE
Core77 blogged it first: http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/teagues_buckminster_headphones_concept_17704.asp
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