Seesaw bench will compel you to talk to strangers

Asmita PrasadSep 23 2008

Management gurus and new age evangelists all over the world pour in millions of dollars every year into researching new ways to communicate better. But this unbelievably simple and super efficient Seesaw Bench trumps them all when it comes to simulating conversation. And that too between two perfect strangers in the relatively unreliable environment of a public park! The brainchild of designers Martin Nicolaus and Tom Eriksson, the bench requires mutual cooperation between two or more people to be functional which is more than enough to get them talking. Of course no one expects the bench to stimulate conversation of the highest intellectual level, solving world problems, but what the heck, it’s a start innit?

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seesaw bench Efsn3 1333

Source: Like Cool

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