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- kyle90, on 10/12/2007, -2/+69I dunno, I'd probably burn out the motor on the first day just watching it go in, out, in, out, in, out, "HEY JOE COME CHECK THIS OUT", in, out, "whoa that's awesome, do it again", in, out, in, out...
You get the idea - Blazekun, on 10/12/2007, -2/+56What a hypnotizing table. I wouldn't be able to own one. It would look like crap about 20 minute after I got it from overuse.
- schroduggity, on 10/12/2007, -2/+50looks great until your wife makes you move it accross the dining room back and forth 10 times. looks like it weighs a ton, probibly even more on your pocketbook too.
I'm just jealous cuz i'd never afford it - kevin.gc, on 10/12/2007, -5/+40They should make it motorized.
- DeathBorn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+37We're getting a signal from their GDO! Open the iris!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+34They have to figure out a way to incorporate these into chinese restraunts.
- systemghost, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29Incredibly clever and pretty damn awesome. I bet they make a ton of money on these commissioned pieces.
- xeomage, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27@icepick314
You must not have clicked that video. You rotate it counter-clockwise when it's small 10° then 25° the other way. A button pops up in the center. When you press that the table transforms into Mahagnotron. - duke, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24Jeez, if you stand too close to that thing when it's changing, you might wind up not being a man any longer! At the very least, some kid''s going to lose a finger jacking around with it.
Still, very cool - nepawoods, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24@Moly
Did you watch the video, or the flash demos? I doubt it. - drethedog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21"Honey where are the keys.....!!!!! Junior lost 3 fingers in the new dining table....There are in there somewhere.... Is it clockwise or......?????
- MistressRoninS, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Thats so ***** x men..I love it.
- mightymouse, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18Haha the girl had so much trouble turning the table in the video.
- Topher06, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15I hope someone might invent some form of fabric that could cover a table while in use, to prevent food and drink from marring the surface of the table and seeping into the seems. I also hope that someone might invent a cup kids could use that could be tipped over without spilling its contents. What a brave new world we would live in with these two inventions.
- tschembalo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11awesome! these are certainly in the top5 of Coolest Things Recently, somewhere near the magnetic air mattresses! http://www.time.com/time/2006/techguide/bestinventions/inventions/home2.html
- dippyskoodlez, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Brilliant!
- Xyleene, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13Anyone else think this had to do with programming at first?
- marnaq, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Still hot tho.
- DaveTheBrave, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Dugg cause it reminds me of the iris on Stargate.
- mistermanoli, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8it looks surprisingly sturdy..
- chaosmachine, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14yeah, i can see some lawsuits happening here..
- HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Very impressive. For anyone wondering (as I was), the top surface of the table isn't really circular when it is small due to circumferential edges of the pieces of the top having the radius of the large form. In order to make the table truly circular when small, the bottom shell of the table actually rises up to be flush with the surface. It (of course) has the radius of the small form of the table. It of course has a hole in it that matches the slightly distorted shape that the top surfaces make when small so that the bottom shell can come up to flush.
You can see this in the dbfletcher_capstan video at 0:16.
Very impressive device. - Agret, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I want one
- egrumling, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Yep. makes the butler's job that much harder.
- akifbayram, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Why does she pause while making it smaller?
- Flankk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I was all ready to watch a clip on scalable database schemas and got a ***** iris instead.
- HonoredMule, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Digg has gotten a string of good articles over the last couple days. I dunno what dam broke, but rock on :)
- jparedes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I think i saw it first on a SF's based Furniture Maker "Rossi Antiques" like 6 years ago. They also have different models and variations of the concept. As far as i remember they hold the patent for the mechanism too, i wonder who was first...
http://www.lxrossi.com/html_catalog/tavolos.html
Anyway, it's too damn expensive :-) - ricksite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5When making it smaller, you turn the top, then finish by turning the bottom.
- Darmichar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I believe she is moving her fingers so they don't get caught.
- icepick314, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9what?
it doesn't turn into a robot? - egrumling, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Nice idea. But if you need this on your boat, you shouldn't really be calling it a yacht. Maybe if you are poor or something you might be able to find a use for it.
- demonthises, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Cyberdactyl, you might want to add a 1 and a couple 0's to that number.
"Tables [...] are exclusively designed for each commission" - MicrowavedH2o, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is much cooler:
http://www.dbfletcher.com/files/dbfletcher_rising_furling_table_anim.mov - TheRammer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Probably a bear to clean after the kids spill orange juice on the table and it seeps down into the expanding mechanism. Even worse would be extricating the body parts pinched by the rotating table of death.
- djspanky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You would think with that kind of technology and the money the company owns they could have hired an actual film crew to shoot the clips. Plus most of it is pictures of yachts instead of the table. Cool, though!
- keikun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2beautiful design
- malice8691, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Damn that table is fantastic.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Unfortunately, round tables are a gigantic waste of space. If they find a way to do it with a rectangular table, then i'll be interested.
- sharonlives, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2My mother actually found that website a few months ago. She emailed the designer to ask how much. The answer.... $90,000! My dad still has not forgiven her. I guess he didn't think it was so funny. :)
- ZeroMP, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh_qn62zny0
- gabrielg01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the girl in the 3rd video is hot!...you have a nice table, and a nice girl in a miniskirt...hhmmm....:)))
- thesimo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this is incredible, looks awesome
- Shriker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Did anyone else imagine what it'd be like to get a finger or two caught in that thing? ow.
- chapium, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I bet cleaning it is a joy too.
- ZeroMP, on 10/12/2007, -27/+28Here is a video that is not in ***** lame quicktime format..
/pukes so hard eyes go red.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh_qn62zny0
Pretty sweet table though (oh yeah and quicktime is a suck!) - jexdawg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, and it's probably in excess* of 6000 too.
- jparedes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeap.. granted on January 4, 2000 as "Expandable Table" for Luis Rossi (i bet has something to do with "Rossi Antiques")
Patent Text:
http://tinyurl.com/vlwbp
Some Images:
http://tinyurl.com/wjwdo - mrRB, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11. Get Firefox.
2. Download an extension called "Media Player Connectivity".
3. Configure to taste.
4. ???
5. Profit. - laplacian, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4@zeromp
I realize you're getting dugg down because of the apple fanboys, but thanks for the youtube link. QT really does suck for so many reasons. -
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