Geeky Furniture – The Periodic Coffee Table
Check out this geeky coffee table, the Periodic Coffee Table, this bound to get some attention, when your friends come round for a coffee.
The Periodic Coffee table measures 4 ft x 2.5 ft x 16 inches, and if features all the 92 natural elements as well as all of the man made elements actually built in to the table.
Don’t worry though, all the dangerous ones are marked by a radioactive symbol, and according to the manufacturer they are totally safe.
By embedding all element samples in clear acrylic, they are beautifully presented and also protected from tarnishing. This format also helps to addresses health and safety issues, as all potentially toxic or corrosive substances are permanently encased in a thick layer of robust resin. Argon gas and mineral oil is further used to ampoule reactive samples and preserve their freshly cut appearance.
I have to admit this is a pretty cool coffee table, if you want one it is going to set you back a cool $8,550, but if that is to much you can buy one of the individual elements embedded in acrylic from $40 to $150.
Product Page via Gizmag
August 8th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Hahaha, totally need one of these
August 8th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Way too expensive for a decorate piece. That’s insane. It’s like that rich guy who spent $10k on an umbrella stand. Think how many starving people you could feed with $8.5k and you’d rather spend it on a *table*? I don’t even understand why they’d charge that much; those tiny samples can’t all add up that kind of money.
August 8th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
well dan for a start a lot of those elements r preety expensive and also there is the part of securing them all in the clear resin and all that so u dont get toxic coffee and die
but god point about the waste of money….. cheap version… buy a noraml coffee table and find an A3 copy of the periodic table an glue it on … there u go nice an easy xD
August 9th, 2008 at 3:10 am
@Dan
That is why you have no general concept of the economy.
They charge whatever the market will bear, they don’t simply guess a price and set it at that.
Just because somebody has money doesn’t mean they should be spending it all on the poor. If we had it your way, we would all enjoy the quality of life expected in the USSR.
August 9th, 2008 at 8:09 am
Very cool, I want!
August 9th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
They have EVERY element? Even those ones that we’ve made 4 atoms of ever and decay in 10^-13 seconds?
August 10th, 2008 at 7:33 am
this is cool but it going to be scary if the glass got broke and all the element mix in at once. very unpredictable type of accident(unless do math in chemistry), I can’t wait to read newspaper about it
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August 18th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Just what you chemistry boys need!
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August 21st, 2008 at 8:52 am
lame
September 14th, 2008 at 12:41 am
ha! i bet that the reason it costs so much is the rhodium sample
November 18th, 2008 at 4:16 am
It looks like the radioactive ones, just have the radioactive symbol, same for those that decay quickly.
Also, chemical physics major… so this makes me all tingly and warm inside. As soon as I am out of uni… and grad school. And pay off my student loans. I am so buying one of these bad boys. Really cool, nice post
April 17th, 2009 at 5:51 am
Nice, nice idea. Next step is to make it with LCD screen instead of acrilic panel.