Glowing Chairs That Communicate With Each Other Will Light Up Any Music Festival

People spend a lot of time sitting down at festivals. Even though there's plenty of music to go dance to or bands to peer at from way back, there's nothing better than sitting chatting with your buddies over some cold ones (or more likely, lukewarm ones). With that in mind wouldn't it be great if there was something awesome to sit on rather than just grass or some dude who's passed out—like some interactive glowing lights that communicate with each other, for instance?

This is what Danish design studio Kollision's interactive urban furniture Light Spots do, which appeared over the weekend at the Northside Festival 2014 in Aarhus, Denmark. Kollision say the pieces are "able to interact with each other, creating new social spaces and new forms of playful interaction between citizens." And what better place to interact with citizens—or friendly, incoherent strangers—and glowing furniture than at a festival.

Here's some more info from Kollision's site:

The prototypes of Light Spots urban furniture are equipped with sensor-controlled sources of light, allowing them to interact with other Light Spots in the area. In the evening, the Light Spots will glow dimly, inviting people to sit. When sitting down, the light will grow brighter, creating a circle of light and shooting a beam of light, which can be aimed at one of the other Light Spots to activate it. The aim of the prototypes is to experiment with different settings, expressions and interaction opportunities.

Each piece of urban furniture is built in two parts. The lower part stands firmly on the ground and the top is a plastic shell as a large seat cushion, which can rotate on its own axis, allowing the user to control the direction of the beam of light. When not in use, the Light Spots will pulse in different colours and hereby invite people to interact.

You can check out what they look like, in the festival surroundings and others, in the pics and video below.

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