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Shape-Shifting Coffee Table That Expands When Friends Come Over

2:30PM February 4, 2012 | Mario Aguilar

Tiny apartments are miserable for a lot of reasons, but the most frustrating is when you can’t make the most of your space without a clutter of furniture everywhere. Consider my coffee table problem: It doesn’t take up too much space, but if there’s more than one person hanging out, it’s too small. The REK coffee table by Dutch designer Reiner de Jong would change everything. More »

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Zen Table Uses Sand And Robots To Automatically Sculpt Beautiful Images

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1:30PM February 4, 2012 | Logan Booker

No, that’s not an LCD screen pretending to be a zen garden. That’s sand (well, tiny silicon beads) under a glass sheet, with images being sculpted into the grains by a programmable robot that lives underneath. If you think it’s the most beautiful piece of furniture you’ve ever seen, you’re in luck — its currently a Kickstarter project you can be involved in, so you can eventually have your very own. More »

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Star Trek Coffee Table Is Furniture’s Final Frontier

10:30AM January 28, 2012 | Michael J Kennelly

When I was a in high school, I built the bridge of the Enterprise in my parents’ basement out of old computer parts. I was pretty proud of my level of Trek fandom. Now, Inhabitat found something that tops that level of Trekkie swag: a coffee table modelled after the USS Enterprise. More »

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The Mid-Century Typing Table

8:20AM August 26, 2011 | Adrian Covert

The typing table is a sleeper piece of mid-century industrial furniture. It’s simple, minimal and versatile. It has sidewings that fold down and wheels which lock in place. But what I like most about it is that it’s all metal. More »

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The Kanagawa Coffee Table Gives Me The Heebie-Geebies

5:00AM June 27, 2011 | Jack Loftus

It’s not coffee that I’d place on my Kanagawa table, should I ever procure one, but RAID. More »

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The Hotter The Action, The Redder This Bedside Table Glows

3:20AM June 16, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

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These fancy Lexham tables have all sorts of weird forced-perspective angles going on, but the reason I want them is due to the thermochromic-sheeting applied to the tops. When the temperature rises, they glow red – when cold, blue. [DesignMilk]

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The Perfect Picnic Table Goes Both Ways

12:40PM May 11, 2011 | Casey Chan

Whether it’s enjoying food, drinks or conversation, life is better on a picnic table. It’s one of tenets I live by. But picnic tables kill my back! If only I could prop the seat up and lounge. Wait. I can? More »

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God Took His Bike Chain And Made His Favourite Mortal A Coffee Table

3:00PM May 6, 2011 | Sam Biddle and Kyle VanHemert

Coffee tables. I’m going to SMASH your coffee table. It deserves to be smashed—it’s pitiful. It sits there, reflecting light, collecting dust, insulting me with its presence. Why? Why? Your coffee table is not a gigantic bicycle chain. More »

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Walking Table Moves Like A Spider Between Rooms

8:20PM April 11, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Tables have had the same form for hundreds, even thousands of years – but finally someone’s reworked them with a practical way of movement which should appeal to everyone. You have got to check out the video of it walking, below. More »

Gaming

The Tabletop Arcade Receives A 21st Century Makeover

9:20AM February 22, 2011 | Adrian Covert

This isn’t the same tabletop Pac Man game you played as a kid in pizza parlors. No, this one has been been updated with a more modern screen and a futuristic-looking-exterior. But the gameplay is strictly retro: Pac Man, Donkey Kong Junior, Dig Dug, 1942, Galaga and 55 other classic arcade games can be found on this thing. That said, $US3500 for a bunch of 30 year old games in a fancy looking shell seems like a lot. [Arcade Tables via Uncrate] More »