Space age style Car Couch

You can own this custom hot rod-inspired Car Couch, built by artist Fred Bailey. To find out how many zeros follow the $4 in the price, head over to Boing Boing Gadgets. Link

[#1 posted by Nores , May 19, 2008 1:58 PM]

That does look really cool. And that is, after all, the purpose of a couch.

Fortunately, too, because if the purpose was to seat people, it would be pretty useless. That's got to be the worst seating capacity to space occupied ratio I've ever seen in a piece of furniture. (Except maybe that metal cube you're supposed to sledgehammer into a chair that we had a couple weeks back.)

[#2 posted by jimh , May 19, 2008 2:43 PM]

@NORES: Agreed, the back seat of my '69 VW bug had more space for action-getting. Plus, it had an engine and cost me about 1% as much as this (1987 dollars.)

[#3 posted by Pipenta , May 19, 2008 6:09 PM]

That's not a couch. That's a LOVEseat.

[#4 posted by License Farm , May 19, 2008 7:52 PM]

For the second time in a 24 hour period I'm flashing to Minority Report; this reminded me of the wall-crawling cars that should have run over Tom Cruise.

I like it, but in order to justify the width (and likely the cost) the seat itself ought to be wider. And it better get good mileage (that's what she said...).

[#5 posted by Takuan , May 19, 2008 8:22 PM]

Isaaaaaac

don't be spammy or you might get stomped

[#6 posted by Takuan , May 19, 2008 8:35 PM]

make it better: The seat has to be able to tip back, SUDDENLY.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0ns8t9iQck

[#7 posted by Evil Jim , May 19, 2008 11:31 PM]

Woah. Neat design but that couch displaces wayyy too much space to warrant the usable seating area it provides.

Too pricey too.

[#8 posted by Sorcerer Mickey , May 20, 2008 7:28 AM]

It reminds me of Professor Frink's Hover-Couch (but with the Death Ray Blasters retracted)!