I love reading articles about the ultimate gaming table, but this one really caught my interest:
Combination Coffee Table & Tablet PC
PALO ALTO, Calif.--The researchers at HP Labs are a serious bunch working on ways to create the data centers and transistors of the future--but the company sees no harm in going after the gaming-table market on the side.
During an open house here Tuesday celebrating its 40th anniversary, HP Labs showed off Misto, the hybrid of coffee table and tablet PC that promises to either entertain or rile up family members next Thanksgiving.
(The news link was originally posted on Slashdot. This just screams the uber-gaming table to me.)
I love reading articles about the ultimate gaming table, but this one really caught my interest:
*sigh* No pricing or availability options. What a shame. I would die for something like that...I knew a guy who took his flat-screen and rotated it 90 degrees and installed it in a coffee table. It was incredibly neat, if a bit ghetto-looking.
Dragon Magazine had a blurb about this table a while back. It's the shiznit of gaming tables as far as I'm concerned.
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That one is definitely the bomb. I like the little message center idea, it's cool. This 'un was covered in Dungeon #113.
Dragon Magazine had a blurb about this table a while back. It's the shiznit of gaming tables as far as I'm concerned.
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I've probably joined just about every other DM in dreaming up their perfect gaming table...but my relative level of geekness never brought the idea to fruition.
Then again, now that the Online Stat Block Bank is alive and thriving, there's no saving myself *shopping for lumber to build table*
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Reminds me of another computer joke:
Breakfast aborted! Serial port not found!
(ar ar ar!)
Great, just what I need - a coffee table that can crash. ;-)SANDWHICH NOT FOUND: ABORT, RETRY, OR TERMINATE
This 'un was covered in Dungeon #113.
I tried to convince my players that I needed a projector like that for a Christmas present. They weren't amused.
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We have one of those projectors here at work that NEVER GETS USED. I'm tempted to steal it for the weekend and "do things with it." (Playing Doom 3, Half Life 2 and Neverwinter Nights comes to mind, as well as watching Star Wars IV, V & VI on it.)
Of course, I'd like to see what my maps look like scaled up. :-D
I tried to convince my players that I needed a projector like that for a Christmas present. They weren't amused.
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I still like this table. One day, when I finally finish cleaning out the garage... I intend to build it.
http://ultimategamingtable.org/
FWIW, Matt, I've heard that sometimes you can find these on eBay for a good deal.
I tried to convince my players that I needed a projector like that for a Christmas present. They weren't amused.
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FWIW, Matt, I've heard that sometimes you can find these on eBay for a good deal.
Yea, I found one that wasn't too expensive once, but then I'd need a decent laptop to run it, and also a good permanent gaming area to use it. I don't think my wife would appreciate a digital projector mounted above the kitchen table.
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I don't think my wife would appreciate a digital projector mounted above the kitchen table.
I'm finding that my girlfriend has similar issues. She also doesn't understand why I would want to rearrange the living room to make it more 'gamer-friendly'.
Bummer for you guys....I'd be all over that in a hot second. Plus, you could use the digital projector to digitally portray recipes on the kitchen table - read the recipe while you're making it without getting a book all dirty, things like that.
I'm finding that my girlfriend has similar issues. She also doesn't understand why I would want to rearrange the living room to make it more 'gamer-friendly'.
I don't think my wife would appreciate a digital projector mounted above the kitchen table.
Bummer for you guys....I'd be all over that in a hot second. Plus, you could use the digital projector to digitally portray recipes on the kitchen table - read the recipe while you're making it without getting a book all dirty, things like that.
Y'know, if they had pricing information for those things, I'd seriously get one. The article led me to believe it's really just R&D, though. *sigh*
Here's my idea, simplier one so the table doesn't freak out family that doesn't understand our beautiful way of life.
They make coffee tables that have sliding drawers for maps so that when people look through the glass they can see whatever you have inside the table.
I would get one of these tables and have the underneath of the glass etched in 1 inch squares and have the drawer be easier slide then the others I've seen so that the DM can slip in map and instant battle grid. Since the table is on top a smooth glass surface, here comes the overhead markers to "add" things. I would also put small felt sqaures on the bottom of my mini's so they wouldn't scratch the table and possibly have the woodwork with grooves, normally decorative to the eye, but really a perfect place to set a dice or two in between rolls.
Combine that with the giant aquarium with the gaint Dragon model and his hoard on top of a stand that contains all our mini's and a nice hardwood book shelf for our source books and TV stand and we would have a very impressive living room.
I can dream... after all, we must get a book shelf big enough to fit BOTH of our source books someday right?