Mouse Pad Couch

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

The website for this week deals with a couch constructed completely out of mouse pads that William sent me. As always, here’s a link to paste, if you can’t get there by clicking on the link: http://people.rit.edu/jpsdss/couch/

I know you are wondering the same thing I did about this couch–where did all of the mouse pads come from? Well, I did some deleting of the address for the post, and found out that the root web page is for the Rochester Institute of Technology (or RIT for short); that answered my question–”institute of technology” seems to me to indicate an overabundance of computers that probably all have/had mouse pads.

This couch actually looks pretty darn comfortable to me (of course that could be the lack of sleep and the early morning talking). According to a Wikipedia article (Mousepads–who didn’t see that article title coming?), “Modern mouse pads are typically made of foam rubber with fabric bonded to the upper surface.” Foam rubber couches should really become popular; they sound like a great idea. Not exactly memory foam, but probably good. On a related, but stranger note, why do they not have a line of “watercouches” based on the whole “waterbed” concept?

Anyway, back to the original post for the weekend, the only problem with this particular project (aside from convincing my wife that it’s “cool”) is coming up with the materials to build it. Who thinks they could come up with that many mouse pads?