coffee table
Games
Coffee Table Makes Retro Gaming a Contemporary Experience
10:30PM Mark Wilson | Half MAME cabinet, half pretentious furniture, this new coffee table by Surface Tension mixes worlds to adultise your gaming habit. Available in walnut or oak, the table features a 19-inch LCD, Shuttle PC with dual core CPU, integrated USB and HDMI outputs, 100W of speakers and two sets of high quality buttons and joysticks. With this hardware configuration, you can play games on the table or output the experience to your HDTV. More »
Design
Freshwest Takes the Concept of a Pool Table Literally
7:50AM Sean Fallon | Kudos to the design team at the UK-based firm Freshwest for putting a fresh, humourous spin on the concept of what a pool table should be. What they have developed is actually a coffee table constructed out of 50mm acrylic that reflects and refracts light “in such a way that it resembled the depth and hue of an actual swimming [pool].” It even features a miniature diving board on one end to complete the effect. Unfortunately, there is no word on whether this will ever become available to the public. Seems like too good of an idea to remain in the prototype stage if you ask me. More »
Design
Periodic Coffee Table With Embedded Element Samples
4:40AM Sean Fallon | If there was a contest for the nerdiest piece of furniture ever made, my money would be on this Periodic coffee table. It has everything a science fanatic could ask for, including the actual elements (even the toxic ones) encased in a thick layer of resin to ensure safety. As a whole, the table is actually quite attractive–and it is sure to be a powerful conversation piece. Unfortunately, that conversation may be internal as your date wonders how she got there and how she can get out of there without offending you. Available for a whopping US$9,500. [Element Displays via Born Rich] More »
Design
Super Soaker Coffee Table
8:20AM Jason Chen | Jellio’s Candy Table doesn’t actually have candy inside (which would be tooth decayingly fantastic), but it does have super soaker-like squirt guns. Not the new, lame super soakers, but the old simple ones from the early ’90s. We’re not sure if it’s actually a real Super Soaker or just a replica, but in either case, you get a coffee table’s worth of them for US$350. That’s actually not too bad for a coffee table; especially one that you can use to hydrate yourself. [Jellio via Boing Boing Gadgets via Dvice] More »
Design
Blu-ray Coffee Table, Pac-Man Tabletop For Grown-ups
4:40AM Mark Wilson | When tabletop arcade manufacturer Retro-Tech makes a coffee table, it’s gotta do more than hold books on Famous Chateaus of the 18th Century and What Things Look Like From the Sky. It has to hold that stuff and piss off your home theater. More »
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