Impossible Object #34: Invisible bookcases

Thanks to the excellent Techeblog for highlighting these – Top 5 Coolest Bookshelves for Geeks. They include the eye-catching Invisible Bookcase…

How does it work? Check out the picture below. Simple, but effictive.

‘Cool bookshelves’? Some may scoff, but – being in the middle of a reading craze at the moment (a sign of age?) – I would consider few things finer than a well-stocked bookcase.

I particularly like their entry at #1 – “Read Your Book Case”. It represents a whole new, furniture-based means of communication

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Previous Impossible Objects we’ve covered:

• the Pedal-less, Seat-less bicycle

• the Lego bridge

• the Escher font

• the “Still Life” art that falls over

• the table with two legs

• the Doll’s House computer
• the parallel of time clock

• the upside down buildings
• the wall-sized light switch
• the liquid table
• the liquid lamp
• the foetal bed

the flying carpet sofa

the electric butterflies

the wall stairs

the other dimension storage

the Colt electric guitar

the piano stairs

the clock that draws the time

the pocket light folding bulb

the shattering door

the wooden mirror

the inside-out salt shaker

the Wingdings keyboard

the door lock maze

the dark lamp the global chess board the curved keyboard the implausible plug

the infinite tap
the simplified calculator
the electric hammer
the signature coffee pot