Feb 21 2008Elastic Bookshelf Is Simple And Stretchy
Despite Steve Job's accusation that "people don't read anymore", I still do. Today it was the back of a cereal box, yesterday it was a nudey magazine I found under my roommate's bed. Being such an avid reader, I need a good place to store all my literature. Enter the Elastic Bookshelf. Designed by Arianna Vivenzio, the form fitting shelf consists of an elastic band stretched over two pegs. I love it, so simple. Just make sure to hit studs when you're putting up the pegs or the bookshelf will transform into all your shit on the floor.
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Reader Comments
1. theJak - February 21, 2008 6:20 PM
I like it.
2. guate6 - February 21, 2008 6:57 PM
I looked for a price but can't find it. I bet it's overpriced though. Hardly practical...unless you want to turn it into a pet-tredmill. Sure, put your gerbil on that thing and watch him/her hate you forever. Try putting the cat on there, and they will murder you first chance they get (right after they make you watch them piss on the clean laundry and puke in your favorite shoes).
3. PB&J - February 21, 2008 7:18 PM
Ah don't fret guate6. Ikea will have it available for $15 in about a month.
4. groonk - February 21, 2008 9:25 PM
somehow i can't help but consider Modern Times
http://youtube.com/watch?v=IjarLbD9r30
but that's prolly just me.
5. guate6 - February 21, 2008 10:49 PM
#4: good one...I love Charlie Chaplin!
6. laz - February 22, 2008 4:56 AM
steve jobs can blow me!
i couldn't live without books. jesus.
i really do like this elastic thing. not sure i would use it for books, or for cd's, hmm, not sure i would use it for anything, but i still like it.
7. Bobeyo - February 22, 2008 3:50 PM
Looks dumb.
8. RobMFVila - February 22, 2008 5:13 PM
Not too bad looking - although I wonder what would happen to the stuff you put in there after a time - just like regular bands, they tend to stretch and never *really* go back to the shape they started at...