Arcade Lounge

As you are probably aware by now the guys here have an unhealthy obsession with coffee tables and we always get very excited when we stumble across a new design. We love the idea of coming home after a long, hard day at the office, and resting your feet on the Enterprise NCC-1701-C.

This Enterprising coffee table was created by artist Barry Shields, it is made from ash, poplar and cherry wood. It took a month to complete and features a glass top that makes it look like it is in motion, with a base that portrays the ship in orbit over a planet. It will set you back £2,018.75 before shipping—but you can’t put a price on endless jokes about the warp factor of your living room.

Available from Etsy

It’s a real-world question mark block! Making it really obvious that you love 8-bit gaming, this unique question mark block lamp features a quarter inch poplar frame, colored translucent acrylic, and colored paper to add texture to the bricks on either side of the question mark.

Will it contain coins or a power up? OK, well, neither actually – just some custom electronics, and the only thing you’ll get if you punch this thing is personal injury and a broken lamp.

via: Gizmodo

We couldn’t help but swoon over the awesome technology in Microsoft’s Surface multitouch table. The only issue was the physical restrictions put on it by the required internal cameras.

Well, this has all changed now and Samsung are apparently ready to roll out the SUR40, which will replace the existing system. It’s multi-touch is now a proper touchscreen and supports 50 points of contact.

The display will be shipping out at $8,400 ($9,049 with legs). This is for a 40″ full HD screen, sealed against water and resistant to shock. It’s all running on an Athlon X2 245e CPU, with 320GB of storage and Radeon video card.

So, how do we get our hands on one?

Microsoft Surface

At surface tension, we’re all for multi-functional furniture. So we were very excited to see the Fusion Tables by Belgian manufacturer, Aramith.

There is room for 6 to munch at with the benches, plus a couple more if you use the smaller seats at each end.

You can choose from a range of cloths which cover the monobed slate.

Using the easy-lift system, it’s a doddle to raise it from 30″ dining up to 33″ playing height.

I want.
Fusion tables by Aramith

We’ve just been sent details of our inclusion in House Magazine. A great high-end property magazine covering a whole range of subjects, including interior design. Our first entry is nestled in on the same page as the sweet looking face warmer.

surface tension Dual ::  House Magazine

Some of you may have seen this, or even had a play on it last year at Replay in Blackpool. Well, it’s now officially released!

Based around the 60-in-1 arcade board, this baby is our entry-level system in our arcade table range. It is equally as well designed, built and finished as our other arcade tables but uses a dedicated arcade PCB rather than a PC system. So you just plug it in, turn it on and you’re away. Available in Walnut only.

Take a look at the specs and games list on our website and view more photos.

The new surface tension Dual arcade table. Available to buy now for £1999, including shipping within England. Get in contact for other areas.

We’ve been extremely busy lately. We haven’t eaten, we haven’t slept, and none of our friends have seen us in months!

We’re now pleased to announce the launch of three new products. As with all other surface tension products, they are all produced in the UK.

First up is the Rubik’s Cube seat, which is also a table and a storage unit. Made from MDF, sprayed to a fine black finish and stickered with pantone-matched colours to give a real authentic over-sized feel… measuring 45cm³.
These are currently in manufacture and are available now for pre-order for Christmas delivery in the UK, Eire and Channel Islands only.

It has the old-skool retro Rubik’s logo on the side.

Everyone’s favourite colours!

Open it up and discreetly store all your junk before your friends come over.

Available now to pre-order for £199 from surface tension.

Well it’s not actually a storage monster since it can’t really hide away all the junk you have around the living room, but it’s definitely a neat solution that can at least help you arrange some of those books, magazines, remotes, CDs, and everything else you may want to tidy away when your girlfriend comes to visit.

This sculptural coffee table has been created by Alessandro Di Prisco, the Cubico Table has horizontal and vertical mini-shelves that are ready to deal with all that surplus in the living room. The Cubico will look even better especially after you’ve adorned it with plenty of the stuff I mentioned above and which you’re not really using on a regular basis anyway.

Via: Design Milk

I’m a huge fan of clean lines and minimalism in the home. That said, I’m not the tidiest person, so you won’t find any such thing in mine!

The Tabletto is a creation from the Belgian designer, Pascale De Backer, to make people concious of the use of medicines in society, as well as making some interesting seating. He also has a couple of smaller seats in the shape of ecstasy pills… and for the same reason.

Tabletto

You may have seen our pre-production Rubik’s Cube stool at R3play last year and it won’t be long before it becomes a reality. But we need some help deciding which should be the ‘missing’ colour.

Because it is storage and requires feet, it must have an orientation. So as a result, one colour must be lost But, we’re running a poll so you can help decide which colour that is!

Due to the design, each colour has a set opposing colour, so whatever colour you choose to get rid of, decides what colour you’ll be sitting on! Every silver lining has a cloud…

White is opposite Yellow, Blue is opposite Green and Red is opposite Orange. Or if you like images…

So, we’d love to hear your input on this one. You could leave us a message here, or better still, head over to our facebook page and just click on the choice of colours. If you’d like to join the page, we’d like that too.