Bean bag

A bean bag (also beanbag) is a sealed bag containing dried beans, PVC pellets, expanded polystyrene, or expanded polypropylene. The bags are commonly used for throwing games, but have various other applications.

For other uses, see Bean bag (disambiguation).
Small bean bags are commonly used as juggling props

Furniture
Main article: Bean bag chair
The Sacco beanbag chair, designed by Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini, Franco Teodoro (1968)

Designed by Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini and Franco Teodoro and produced by the Italian company Zanotta in 1969,[1] beanbags have become a globally recognised piece of furniture. It is said that they noticed the staff would sit on bags filled with styrofoam during their coffee and cigarette breaks. The original beanbag chair was called "Sacco", which was a pear-shaped leather bag filled with styrofoam beans and is still in production today.

Bean bags can be made from materials including leather, suede, corduroy and fake fur. Polyester bean bags are waterproof and can be used outdoors. Giant bean bags can also be used as a cheap alternative to buying a sofa or couch.

Quite a variety of bean bags are sold, including baby bean bags that are known for helping babies that suffer from colic. They are also known for helping with plagiocephaly or more commonly referred to as flat head syndrome in babies.

In August 2014, Ace Bayou Corp recalled 2.2 million bean bag chairs in the United States due to a design fault which allowed the chairs to be unzipped by children. Two children died from suffocation after climbing inside the chairs and inhaling the foam beads.[2]

Games
  • Beanbag was a game referred to at the turn of the twentieth century by Finley Peter Dunne as the antithesis of roughness of politics, Politics ain't beanbag!.[3][4]
  • Bean bag toss (or cornhole) is a game similar to horseshoes and quoits, played with bean bags and two goals.
  • Footbag (also known as Hacky Sack, a trademark) is a type of ball-shaped bean bag that is used to play various games.
  • Bean bags are also commonly used for juggling.
  • In gridiron football beanbags are used to mark the point of a change of possession (where a punt or kickoff is caught, an interception is made, or a fumble occurs)
  • Bean bags are often used for a game similar to dodgeball where small square bean bags are slid across the floor with the object to hit the opposing team's players in the foot. The game is particularly popular in American elementary schools as a safer alternative to dodgeball.

Other uses
  • Bean bags are used as bean bag round ammunition for non lethal impact weapons.
  • Clutching technology for robots makes use of bean bags.[5]
  • Smaller bean bags can be used to stabilize a photograph or video camera when a tripod is not available.[6]
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References
  1. Vitra Design Museum. "Sacco". Retrieved 25 September 2014.
  2. Khouri, Andrew (22 August 2014). "2.2 million bean bag chairs recalled after two children die". Retrieved 22 August 2014.
  3. Chicago Evening Post, October 5, 1895. Excerpted in Finley Peter Dunne and Mr. Dooley: The Chicago Years by Charles Fanning (1978).
  4. Reeve, Elspeth, What Newt and Mitt Mean When They Say 'This Ain't Bean Bag', Atlantic, January 9, 2012
  5. Knight, Helen (25 October 2010). "Robots could ditch fingers for beanbags". New Scientist. 2784.
  6. "What are alternatives to a tripod when I can't take one along?". Photography. StackExchange. Retrieved 30 May 2011.


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