A high-end chicken coop (it seems to be in cypress), priced beginning at $5,200, is being sold by Frederik Roijé, a design agency located in Amsterdam. A large version sells for $8,200.Roijé pushes the limits of the chicken coop concept, but the design makes sense - the typical homemade chicken coop is usually slapped together from pine 2 x 4s and 2 x 2s with a lot of chicken wire nailed or stapled to it. That can cause a clash of styles when placed adjacent to a high end home. 

"As a professional woodworker in the cabinet and moulding business, I have had the pleasure of working with my hands in the wood industry for about 30 years," says HS Green, owner of H.S. Green Construction & Cabinets in Deep Gap, NC. "In 2014 while touring a bee shop, one of my high school classmates said to me, 'If I had your equipment and knowledge I would make my own wooden ware.'"

We last heard from Jessica Banks when she developed and expanded her line of Float tables and shelves. Her walnut veneered tables composed of a set of boxes, suspended in air by opposing super magnets, but cabled to stay in place, were a revelation.Now she has returned with another fresh take on seating: foldable metal chairs and table with collapsible wood tops.

Google Cardboard is a ready-to-assemble device that converts iPhone and other Smart Phones into 3D and Virtual Reality Viewers. The design template and manufacturing specifications are available free from Google, and a number of companies have begun manufacturing it.  Here are some photos of the device, including one by woodworker Glenn Stevens made of walnut.

For my second IWF, I began the day before the show opened as a panelist on the Woodworking Inventors Symposium. The most surprising benefit to the symposium was the interaction and the back-and-forth with other shop owners.