An Interactive Coffee Table
Via Metafilter, we find this nifty coffee table that provides a bird’s eye view of England. You can apparently ‘steer’ it, by shifting items on the table:
The Drift Table allows people to float slowly over the British landscape from the comfort of their own home. The distribution of weight on the table controls the slow scroll of aerial photographs displayed on a central viewport. Progress is slow, but the Drift Table can be used to visit favorite places, look at geographical features, or simply watch the world go by.
As someone who often questions the efficiency of coffee tables—they do little more than occasionally hold up your coffee—I can buy into this. We use an antique steamer trunk for our coffee table, which is stuffed full of roller blades and ice skates.
