Get One Mood Chair

orget looking at the mood ring on someone's hand to know how she feels. Now it's the chair under her cute bum that'll reveal all. And the LEDs and embedded micro-chips on it are way cooler than bubblegum machine trinkets.

The Mood Chair is interior decorating designed by a company called Aether & Hemera and while it doesn't look too comfortable, it's pretty fun because it changes color based on its environment and users. The only trouble is that there doesn't appear to be a chart explaining which color corresponds to which mood.

An art and design collective, Aether & Hemera, have found an answer to those gimmicky mood rings that change color according to their wearers’ moods. It’s not a piece of jewelry this time, but a chair. The ‘Mood Chair’ is billed as an interactive piece of  home furnishings, and its designers claim that it’ll change its color in response to its environment and users. Using sensors, LEDs and microchips, the chair translates environmental stimuli into light. It sounds a bit hokey, but a video demonstrating the chair in ‘action’ does illustrate how it adjusts its color to the clothes of the person sitting on it.Is it accurate? We're not sure. But we give the artists props for reminding us of mood rings from our adolescent years. 

Aether & Hemera play with LED lights, fiber optics, projections, and UV lamps, creating installations that explore light and its power to trigger a sense of identity or set a mood. Although the partially translucent Mood Chair may never make it into living rooms, the design would sit well in a commercial setting. 

The home improvement consists of translucent units, with embedded L.E.D. (light-emitting diode) light sources, sensors and software. The built environment is progressively more shaped as a scenario of events and 'mood furnishings' or 'reactive furniture' are an answer to the continuous quest for interactivity in a society where media has a growing influence on our cities and aggregation spaces."