Chair changes colour with human touch

Furniture that uses sensors and wireless technology to change colour when sat on is claimed to make sitting more comfortable and people feel wonderful.

'Fuwapica', the name of the furniture, roughly translates from Japanese to mean 'soft' and 'flashily'. It contains one air pressure sensor that can be programmed to change colour either at random or when sat on or touched. Furniture can also be connected together so that when a chair is sat on, all the other chairs in the room change to the same colour.

There is also a variation of Fuwapica, called Fuwapica RGBy, which has the function of colour capture from an object or the environment. There are colour sensors on the table top, for example, which will determine the colour of the furniture. It works by placing the RGBy furniture against the object that is the colour the user would like the furniture to be. When touched, the furniture will turn into the desired colour.

According to Hiro Kawamura from Mongoose Studio, there are over 16,777,216 colours that could be possible but 256 colours are set up to make sure they are distinguishable.

A Fuwapica suite, consisting of four chairs, one table and the software, will cost approximately US$25,500. However, this does not include LCD or PC.