bean bag
{{Short description|Sealed bag containing dried beans or pellets}}
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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 they have various other applications.
Furniture
{{Main article|Bean bag chair}}
Designed by Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini and Franco Teodoro and produced by the Italian company Zanotta in 1969,{{cite web|last=Big Bean Bag|title=Big Bean Bag|url=https://dreamblankets.com.au/products/the-comfy-big-bean-bag|url-status=live|access-date=25 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210724141439/https://dreamblankets.com.au/products/the-comfy-big-bean-bag |archive-date=2021-07-24 }} beanbags have become a globally recognized piece of furniture. It is said that they noticed the staff would sit on bags filled with styrofoam during their coffee and cigarette breaks.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}} The original beanbag chair is called "Sacco", which is a pear-shaped leather bag filled with Styrofoam beans and is still in production today.
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!.Chicago Evening Post, October 5, 1895. Excerpted in [https://books.google.com/books?id=sbgfBgAAQBAJ&dq=%22politics+ain%27t+bean-bag%22&pg=PA125 Finley Peter Dunne and Mr. Dooley: The Chicago Years] by Charles Fanning (1978).Reeve, Elspeth, [https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/01/what-newt-and-mitt-mean-when-they-say-aint-bean-bag/332490/ What Newt and Mitt Mean When They Say 'This Ain't Bean Bag'], Atlantic, January 9, 2012
- Cornhole is a bean bag tossing 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.
- In benchrest and long-range shooting, bean bags or "shooting bags" are often used to support the gun's fore-end and buttstock, and allows the shooter to fine-adjust the aim by gently squeezing the rear bag.
- Clutching technology for robots makes use of bean bags.{{cite journal | url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19623-robots-could-ditch-fingers-for-beanbags.html | title=Robots could ditch fingers for beanbags | author=Knight, Helen | journal=New Scientist |date=25 October 2010 | volume=2784}}
- Smaller bean bags can be used to stabilize a camera when a tripod is not available.{{cite web | url=http://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/5/what-are-alternatives-to-a-tripod-when-i-cant-take-one-along/21#21 | title=What are alternatives to a tripod when I can't take one along? | publisher=StackExchange | work=Photography | access-date=30 May 2011}}
References
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External links
- {{Commons category-inline|Beanbags}}
- wikiHow To Make a Bean Bag
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