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• LED Klingon Coffee Table Makes Me Wish I Could Make Cool Stuff Out of Wood

  In DIY, Furniture, Geeky

  

  Take a good look at what you can do with “26 Flashing RGB diodes and a blue one underneath! Sheet Acrylic top. Clear Acrylic rod for supports, pine frame with dowel joints. 2 coats of matt varnish.” Pretty impressive, isn’t it?

   

• Legion pallet table helps the planet, looks pretty cool

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  The Legion pallet tables are made from used shipping pallets; the pallets are sandblasted and then waxed to give them a luxurious golden brown color. The wheels at the bottom, which raise the table to acceptable height, look pretty substantial – two of them have brakes. You might argue that $242 is a lot to pay for something when the wood that it is built out of is essentially free, but sandblasting and waxing are [...]

   

• The Most Complicated Pipe Organ Desk You Will See All Day

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  Let me make one thing absolutely clear: this Kagen Schaefer’s pipe organ desk is not a DIY project that most people are going to be able to pull off at home – it took him three years to build and he knows what he is doing. Us mere mortals can merely admire the view. In his own words: The Pipe Organ Desk has been in the works for more than 3 years. It is entirely [...]

   

• USB Cooler Cushion Saves You From Drowning in Your Own Butt Sweat

  In Computers, Furniture

  

  Sitting in front of a computer all day for a living can be hot, thankless work – more so if you work with a laptop on your lap – and chances are that the hottest part of your body is going to be the ever expanding mass of fat and muscle that comes into contact with your chair. If you want to cool down you could try a standing desk, a really expensive mesh chair [...]

   

• Elliptical Machine Office Desk Might Make Working More Painful

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  Most jobs fall into one of two categories: jobs that make you physically tired (they tend to pay less well but keep you in better physical condition); and jobs that make you mentally tired (that will make you fat and possibly shorten your life expectancy). This elliptical machine office desk is designed to let you enjoy the salary benefits of a mentally draining job while staying in shape. I’m not sure how I would go [...]

   

• Man’s Crazy DIY Computer Desk May or May Not Be a Safety Hazard

  In DIY, Furniture

  

  Maybe it is just the pessimist in me that sees this DIY computer desk endeavor going badly. Imagine the perfect storm of bolt snappage: the monitor board crashes down, smashing both kneecaps… then the bolts at the base of the seat give way slamming our intrepid designer into the concrete floor head-first. Of course, it probably won’t happen and we really hope that it doesn’t because Ron Bean seems like a really awesome individual. Here [...]

   

• Bulldozer Lounge Chair Looks Kinda Bulldozery

  In Design, Furniture

  

  While the The Bulldozer Lounge Chair might look like an oversized Tonka toy from a distance, up close it is anything but. The chair is built from aluminum, padded with neoprene and looks like it can stand up to a bit of abuse. Price: On Asking [Mark and Efe]

   

• Space Invaders Chairs Look Cute, Possibly Uncomfortable

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  I realize that this is quite a judgment to pass without having ever sat on one of these Space Invaders chairs, but the Space Invader shape isn’t exactly ergonomic and all of those sharp edges they look really, really uncomfortable. Still, they are made out of foam, which should give them just enough give to make them acceptable. Price: On Asking Thanks Jeff!

   

• MotoArt Fuel Cradle Table – Tasteful Aviation Pr0n For Your Conference Room

  In Design, Furniture

  

  Using the MotoArt KC-97 Fuel Cradle Conference Table as a conference table strikes me as something of a waste – who wants to share it with people at work? Personally, if I had the money, this would be my dining table – but I don’t so it won’t… for the time being anyway. From MotoArt: Re-fuel your meetings with the MotoArt KC-97 Fuel Cradle Conference Table. Based on the B-29, the KC-97 was our first [...]

   

• Bugatti-inspired Desk Costs As Much As a Small House

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  The desk that you see above is the work of custom furniture builder Luzzo Bespoke. Their “Bugatti Grand Prix racing car inspired desk” channels the design sensibilities of the Bugatti’s vehicles from the 20s and 30s. If it looks over-the-top, that’s because it is. The desk was painstakingly constructed out of machined aircraft aluminum – it is the sum total of some 3,000 hours of designing machining and finishing. The honeycomb pattern that you see [...]

   

• Coffee Table Looks Like The Ugly Insides of Old Electronics

  In Design, Furniture

  

  Don’t get me wrong, I like seeing old circuitry re-purposed – it can be decorative and it can look really good. I like the way that BRC Designs were thinking with this table, but I don’t like the table itself for a couple of reasons: first, the look of the table – it is so busy that it makes me feel like plucking out my eyes; and second, a practical issue – all those transistors, [...]

   

• One Gaming Chair to Rule Them All: The Mini Gaming Chair

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  If you have an old Mini lying around and have some badass design skills, you could try and turn it into a gaming chair. That is what David Gawthorpe did – it took him two years, but look how it turned out. Tucked away in his beast is an Xbox 360, 500-watt amp, strobe and laser lights, a vibration pad under the seat, a mini fridge and even a remote-controlled smoke machine – and the [...]