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I'll just use the bottom of a coffee mug, thanks.
A+ for form...but function? how about a good old school hammer that will cost much less.
But the idea of printing objects on a flat sheet of wood is definitely cool. Brings prototype manufacturing / printing closer to reality / feasibility....
Reminds me of that store that prints furniture on flat sheets of wood...unto this last.
Isn't it actually a mallet?
I don't doubt it'd work, but for how LONG? With the gee-whizzery about prototyping fabricators and other prefab goods like this, is there a related field of research investigating how the sudden uptick of even more disposable consumer goods will be more ecologically disposed? Conversely, will nothing be made to last anymore? These may sound like contradictory questions, but items made to last don't need to be replaced, or at the least tossed.
It seems kind of cool, but only if it came free or nearly free with whatever you were intending to use it for. Like if it was included with IKEA flat-pack furniture that only needs a few pegs to be hammered in.
Where "functional" means "unsafe, unwise, and nonfunctional".
One of the other things on their site - the "Bruce" espresso cups - I thought was a great idea when I saw it in the ceramics for breakfast entry that I saw on the contest page that was linked to from Boing Boing earlier this year. I didn't know anyone was making it, it looks interesting!
Who would want to pound their food with plywood? Yech!
Oooh...do you think it's "functional" enough to hijack a plane?
See where I'm going with this? Do ya?
I bet airline security will now start confiscating puzzles too.
My nearly immediate thought was "I'm surprised a design firm didn't design it so their logo was easily visible on the finished piece. Then I realized - looking at the silk-screened board of parts - they did. Someone assembled the mallet such that the end caps are facing inwards. Whoops! I want to see how it looks with the logos now.
Halfdrop: My thoughts exactly when I firstsaw it --- looks like something a terrorist would appreciate.