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Transforming Desk is Four Pieces of Furniture in One

Posted: 12 Jun 2014 08:00 AM PDT

frey desk

It’s tough to find a piece of office furniture that does everything you need it to do, but the Frey Desk might be just that piece of furniture. The CNC-cut wooden desk goes from a sitting desk to a standing desk to a drafting desk to an easel, and comes with fully adjustable shelves.

transforming desk

The setup consists of two notched towers into which the components easily slot. The desktop is attached with hinges to two legs. As the desktop moves up or down the assembly, it can be angled until it’s at the right degree for a drafting table surface or an art easel. Or, the legs can be moved as well to keep the desktop surface level. With a few easy adjustments you can move between a sitting desk and a standing desk.

Frey’s Kickstarter campaign had a very modest goal which it successfully reached. According to Nathan Frey, the inventor of the desk, most of the money will go toward presentation and sales. As he very endearingly proves in the promotional video above, Frey’s strengths lie in inventing and production, not so much in the presentation of his idea. The Kickstarter versions of the Frey desk ran between $325 and $521, which is probably indicative of what the retail price will be once the product hits the market.

This Fold-Up Toy Turns Your Staircase Into an Indoor Slide

Posted: 11 Jun 2014 02:00 PM PDT

sliderider indoor slide

On the long, boring summer days of childhood, creativity tends to run wild. That creativity, however, doesn’t always manifest itself in the safest ways. For example, we can remember riding down the stairs in sleeping bags, laundry baskets, cardboard baskets, and trash bags. As fun as that was, it was exceptionally dangerous and often ended in pain.

sliderider setup

Inventor Trisha Cleveland could save current and future generations of kids from bodily harm with her invention, the SlideRider. It’s more or less one very long plastic-covered foam mat that stretches over your stairs to turn them into an indoor slide. It features safety bumpers on the sides to ensure your little ones don’t go sliding off of the side and into the stair railings and a soft landing pad at the bottom.

safety rails and soft landing

When you and your kids are done playing with the slide, it folds up very neatly into a handy little package held together with a storage strap. The folded package even has handles on either side to help you move the SlideRider around and put it away.

sliderider storage strap

Cleveland is developing the product with Quirky, the public think-tank that makes regular people’s inventions into real products. So far the development process seems to be moving along, but there is one unanswered question: how will kids get back up the stairs once they slide to the bottom?

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