Geeky Furniture – The Periodic Coffee Table

By on Friday 8th August 2008 8:04 am in Geeky

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.

periodic coffee table

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.

periodic coffee table

Don’t worry though, all the dangerous ones are marked by a radioactive symbol, and according to the manufacturer they are totally safe.

periodic coffee table

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

17 Comments »

What do you think?

  • http://miladinoski.trap17.com Miladin

    Hahaha, totally need one of these :D

  • Dan

    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.

  • davidhtemonkey

    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

  • http://dnpen.com DucoNihilum

    @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.

  • http://www.codysortore.com Cody Sortore

    Very cool, I want!

  • James

    They have EVERY element? Even those ones that we’ve made 4 atoms of ever and decay in 10^-13 seconds?

  • geekdemon

    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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  • Craig Keever

    Just what you chemistry boys need!

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  • junebug

    lame

  • Dmoon

    ha! i bet that the reason it costs so much is the rhodium sample :P

  • eric

    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

  • http://www.furnituredepot.com/living-room-furniture-sofa-bed-convertibles-c-34_25.html Convertible

    Nice, nice idea. Next step is to make it with LCD screen instead of acrilic panel.

  • john

    haha wow, thats stupid, i mean its cool to see all the elements n such, but cmon keep the cost down you only need on atom to say you have a sample. plus they dont even have the bad ass REALLY rare elements that our gaverment keeps for creation death tools. zoloz
    if i had the money to buy this i would rather buy a table made of Cristal

  • Anon

    @Dan – you mentioned how many starving people $8.5k could feed. Let me ask you this: if you had $8,500 right now, would you go and actually use it to feed starving people?

    I have just decimated your well-thought-out point. Qed, bitch.

  • Zincorium

    @Geekdemon- ‘embedded in acrylic’. Either you don’t read, or you don’t know what acrylic is. If you’re going to call yourself a geek, you really should behave like one.

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