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From our friends at Gizmodo, an RFID-enabled, electric motor-powered library chair that follows one around the library, assuring that one always has a place to sit.

rfid chair

The RFID Chair

See the chair in action here.

As we decide whether or not to cross our legs, we might appreciate the contrast in the fact that it was on this date in 1527 that Italian courtier and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli died, while it was on this date in 1905 that French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre was born…

I love my country more than my soul.
-Last words of Niccolo Machiavelli

I was too loved to have doubts about myself.
-Jean-Paul Sartre

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June 21, 2008 at 1:01 am

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