Designed by an MIT research team, the so-called “seat-e” is a public bench that provides a range of services:
Installed recently at the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, each of these two sleek, backless benches has a solar panel on one side to provide power to recharge cellphones, a connection to the Internet, and for night lighting. Soon they also will have sensors to detect for air pollution — even telling whether someone nearby is smoking.
Love this.
Great idea but man they are ugly! Those MIT engineers need to hook up with some industrial designers 🙂
Those are ugly and don’t even look like a public park bench.
Pretty sure they just repurposed ski boot fitting boxes from the 1970s.
Agreed. Engineers build the world, but occasionally need to be reminded of the end-user.