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Interlocking Office Chairs   (+4)  [vote for, against]
Revolving chairs that gear together and spin spin spin.

Revolving office chairs, each with a large plastic gear underneath the feet. This way, you can line up a bunch of chairs (with people on them), lock the gear teeth together, and spin gleefully in unison.
-- DrWorm, Feb 12 2010

Test Version 1 http://www.break.co...-Chairs-346106.html
Early beta testing indicates that more designtime is necessary to refine the means by which chair sprockets intermesh. [jurist, Feb 12 2010]

I like this, but am bemused by the notion of a string of meshed gears, which would cause alternate seats to revolve anti-clockwise.

How about sprocketed seats, and a large web-like band [note to self: "LW-lB" has further promise...] and spacers to allow synchronous revolution?
-- csea, Feb 12 2010


This would work well at formal dinner parties because the ladies and the gentlemen would then rotate in opposite directions.
-- nineteenthly, Feb 12 2010


The other bemusing aspect of this idea has to do with the social engineering required to //spin gleefully in unison.//

Perhaps a new sub-category is needed: [office: furniture: choreography]?

[jurist]'s link suggests that most office participants may prefer bumper-car-like activities.
-- csea, Feb 13 2010


//How big are these gears going to be to keep enough room between the chairs to keep folks from knocking knees, feet, and shins// irrelevant question, next?
-- pocmloc, Feb 13 2010


[21], if I were a better artist, I would draw this. The gears would be big enough for the participants to tuck their legs within their circumfrence.
-- DrWorm, Feb 13 2010



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