Hitting the StumbleUpon toolbar for the last hour or so and came across this page on a design blog. A Dutch designer named Jelte van Geest has come up with a novel solution for that ever-present(!) problem we all have in libraries, when you just can’t ever get a chair to sit down anywhere near a book that you’ve picked up and want to browse through.

To put it quite plainly:

You get your own seat the moment you enter the library. And it stays with you the entire time.

There’s also this YouTube video to display what he means:

I’m not sure what to make of it. If there was a way of having it closer to you as you walk around, I’d think it was genius. But as it is, in the UCD Library, people would just pull them up off the ground and run out of the radar’s earshot.Nice idea though. More from van Geest’s own website at www.jeltevangeest.com.