WALT DISNEY'S film version of "Mary Poppins" features a scene in which, at a click of the protagonist's fingers, cupboards, drawers, bedside tables and trunks fly open and her young charges' clothes and toys leap inside them. Self-tidying clothes and toys are still some way away, unfortunately. But furniture that collaborates, Poppins-like, with its owners may be just around the corner. If groups of researchers working on the idea in America and Europe have their way, you may soon be able to cal...
WALT DISNEY'S film version of "Mary Poppins" features a scene in which, at a click of the protagonist's fingers, cupboards, drawers, bedside tables and trunks fly open and her young charges' clothes and toys leap inside them. Self-tidying clothes and toys are still some way away, unfortunately. But furniture that collaborates, Poppins-like, with its owners may be just around the corner. If groups of researchers working on the idea in America and Europe have their way, you may soon be able to cal...
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