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The Ultimate Desk... Sort Of

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the are-you-getting-enough-oxygen dept.

Hanzo writes "So, you need a desk. With mood lighting. And a pop-up LCD monitor. It even just so happens you like Space Ghost. Well, for a mere $39,995(USD), you can have exactly what you need. ?" They still aren't selling powerbands or insect musicians, but I figure it's only a matter of time now.

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  1. Such choices... by dominion · · Score: 5, Funny

    College for kids, or space ghost desk.

    Grandpa's surgery, or space ghost desk.

    Down payment for house, or space ghost desk.

    Travel the world for two years, or space ghost desk.

    This is tough.

    1. Re:Such choices... by .!.+(0.o)+.!. · · Score: 5, Funny

      You picked, space ghost desk, too?

    2. Re:Such choices... by Walt+Dismal · · Score: 3, Funny

      I want it but I'll need Robin's help to lift it into the Batmobile to drive it home.

  2. wow! by Neophytus · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Reconstituted wood with a lick of paint, lcd and fridge! A bargain at only $40k

    1. Re:wow! by PhoenixFlare · · Score: 4, Informative

      From the description- The gracefully curved desk is constructed with a brushed aluminum body

      Try and actually follow the link first, at least if you're going to attempt to be witty :P

  3. For that much money... by Cat9117600 · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you're gonna buy that, you're almost required to film your own "Space Ghost: Coast to Coast" show.

  4. Ultimate Desks? by leonscape · · Score: 5, Informative

    For that kind of money I think you could do a whole lot better, the Aura is definatley nicer than that.

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    1. Re:Ultimate Desks? by LeoDV · · Score: 4, Informative

      You know, I tried time and again to find the "ultimate desk" and every one I could find, this one and the others from PoeticTech, and the harder and the more I try, the more I'm convinced that the ultimate desk is a big wooden plank at desk level that I can put all my stuff on. My computer(s), my computer screen(s), my TV, my clock radio, my stereo system, my phone, my action figures, but, more importantly, my junk.

      It seems that no desk out there leaves me room for just a few cubic feet of crap. Open manuals lying on their faces, takeout food wrappings, books, piles of paper...

      Of course a real desk with good quality wood is better than just a plank, but those ultra-ergonomic moving thingamajig desks would never work with me.

    2. Re:Ultimate Desks? by mosch · · Score: 2, Informative

      The ultimate desk is, in my humble opinion, the Middle Atlantic Edit Center line of desks. If you want a huge amount of stable desktop space, they're ideal. (and have nifty options, some of which involve 19" racks)

  5. I'd rather buy this by geeveees · · Score: 5, Funny

    When go for the Space Ghost desk when you can have A Powerpuff Girls Bedroom for only $99.995!

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    1. Re:I'd rather buy this by zephc · · Score: 3, Informative

      AHHH! On their own product they got the colors wrong (on the bed, for starters)! From left to right, its pink, blue, green (Blossom, Bubbles, Buttercup).

      And the Space Ghost Desk is the wrong color, and the LCD is supposed to drop DOWN from above, not pop up! What cheesiness for such exorbitant prices!

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    2. Re:I'd rather buy this by lysander · · Score: 2, Informative
      On their own product they got the colors wrong (on the bed, for starters)! From left to right, its pink, blue, green (Blossom, Bubbles, Buttercup).
      I've actually seen the bed colors vary from episode to episode.
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    3. Re:I'd rather buy this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Aah, this is Slashdot. Where a guy instantly spots mistakes in the coloring scheme of, what, a Powerpuff Girls Bedroom, and gets modded Insightful for it.

  6. The ultimate desks are sold at Poetic Technologies by Knuckles · · Score: 4, Informative

    link

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  7. Scroll down for the laugh of the day ... by sithkhan · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you go to the link in the article, be sure to scroll down to the bottom to read this:

    KIDS, DON'T FORGET: YOU'RE NOW IN AN ONLINE STORE. YOU MUST BE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OLD TO MAKE A PURCHASE.

    Funny $#!+

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  8. Re:I'll but that by Grell · · Score: 2, Funny

    but = Buy

    (got excited being first, so lame ... )

    G

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  9. tiny Sony Fridge n All by malia8888 · · Score: 3, Funny
    I think the price is disGhosting;)

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  10. monitor? by mattdm · · Score: 2, Informative

    Philips 15" LCD Television.

  11. Tree house by isorox · · Score: 4, Informative

    I always wanted a Treehouse, but we never had a tree in our garden. Fortunatly they provide the tree for you, a snip at $1 million

    1. Re:Tree house by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      If they're charging a million for the treehouse, how much would they want for Dexter's Lab?

  12. frankly.. by gl4ss · · Score: 2, Funny

    i'd rather have the sealab.

    not pod 6 though.

    then i'd drink bepop cola all day long.
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  13. $40,000? by Ianoo · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm sure now that the US economy is on an upturn every parent will be buying one of these for their 5 little dumplings!

    Honestly, isn't this desk worth more than quite a large percentage of US houses? (I live in the UK where the house prices are higher so correct me if I'm wrong...).

    I seriously think this has to be a joke, they've obviously made the price so insanely prohibative that no-one in their right mind is going to buy one of these things. I'm pretty sure I could walk down to the local furniture shop, where I know this guy who is a seriously ancient master carpenter (he built fitted wardrobes last year, they're the best-built piece of furniture in my home), and get him to make me one of these for a far more reasonable price.

    Just give any decent carpenter the dimensions of the screen, fridge, etc and I'm sure he'll come up with something better if you throw $40K at him!

  14. Its a form of vapourware...... by reality-bytes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I suspect that these products are vastly expesive as they have been designed but never prototyped.

    The idea is probably to get a certain ammount of orders placed before a design is actually built. Judging by the lack of Real Life(tm) photos as opposed to the CG ones, they aren't getting very many orders.

    I mean - would you pay $99,995 so your kid could live in Dexter's bedroom??

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  15. build your own! by lo_fye · · Score: 5, Interesting

    i built a desk to replace my case - so I'm not sure if it's a case mod, or a desk mod -- either way, i have no case now -- my entire pc is hidden inside my desk (except the monitor). When in "desk mode" the pc is invisible. You can pull out a drawer and tweak the mobo. Or fold down the drawer front to use the keyboard & mouse & access the drives.

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  16. Forget the desk! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Get Harvey Birdman's 1971 Plymouth Roadrunner. Nice.

    1. Re:Forget the desk! by FunkyRat · · Score: 2, Informative

      It is too sad I know this...

      I believe you are referring to America and not Bread.

      Bread is known for such luninous tracks as...

      • If
      • Guitar Man
      • Make It With You
      • Let Your Love Go

      Pity me not for knowing this, but for actually having CDs from both groups on my shelf.

  17. Re:More Dot.Com Foolishness? by Roland+Walter+Dutton · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh Ghod that's funny. The image of a third-floor cubicle farm packed with 100 Space Ghost desks and matching massage chairs at $40,000 apiece...

  18. I will buy it that!!! by aysa · · Score: 3, Funny

    It not only fits perfectly into my kid's tree house but it is comparativlely very cheap too.

  19. Come on now! by geek4ever · · Score: 5, Funny

    It says shipping is included in the price! It's not that bad!
    (I feel a need to say "just kidding", for less intelligent of you)

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  20. Re:Considering the specification..... by daveking · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The really scary thing is tho....... there are people out there who will pay for this!

    If anyone had ever actually paid for one, there would probably be an actual photo published of the desk, not just the rendered images we are shown. I'd offer that not even the manufacturer is willing to pay for one.

    But I agree. $40K is too much for a knock-off. I'd rather wait and buy the real Space Ghost Coast to Coast desk on eBay, after the show is finally cancelled in a few hundred years. Now that would be worth something!

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  21. /. Never Ceases to Amaze Me... by T.bias · · Score: 3, Insightful
    ...with its stupidity and complete lack of good content (on slow news days).

    I am really amazed at how many people are actually complaining about the price! I really should collect all of your names so that I can have a really fun first of April...

    And even if you did get the joke, it is hardly worth the bandwidth. I would complain that /. has gone down the tubes, but hasn't it always been like this?

    The more I sift out the bad jokes, and on slashdot there are only bad jokes (more acurately, the same bad jokes repeated endlessly), the more I am merely left with the original post, a reply shouting out that it has been /.'ed, and a follow-up listing the mirror.

    I hope that once the US is done "disarming" Iraq they can take a moment to disarm all geeks or their joke rendering portions of their brain.

    To be more accurate, I think we may need to do some research as geeks (as represented on slashdot) clearly do not have that portion of the brain to generate jokes, but instead have something severely wrong with some other part of their heads...

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    1. Re:/. Never Ceases to Amaze Me... by Zak3056 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I am really amazed at how many people are actually complaining about the price! I really should collect all of your names so that I can have a really fun first of April...

      And even if you did get the joke, it is hardly worth the bandwidth. I would complain that /. has gone down the tubes, but hasn't it always been like this?

      The thing is, I"m not convinced that this IS a joke. It's a publicity stunt, to be sure, but from reading the other items available in the site (such as Birdman's 1971 Plymouth Roadrunner, Powerpuff girls and Dexters lab bedrooms, etc) that all of the ridiculous looking items are possibly the real thing. Most of them are limited in quantity to 1-3, and the million dollar treehouse listed actually references California building codes, site permit fees, etc.

      That said, I agree with you that this isn't quite "news for nerds," and it CERTAINLY isn't "stuff that matters."

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  22. It's not a joke... by anon*127.0.0.1 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's an advertising ploy.

    Neiman-Marcus has been doing this with their Christmas catalogs for years. They always include one or two outrageous gifts. His and her helicopters, anyone? Your own oil derrick? Dinner with Walter Cronkite?

    They don't actually want anyone to order the stuff, thats why the price is so ridiculous. If you're willing to pay $40K, they'll probably be willing to hire someone to craft a custom, one-of-a-kind desk, and pocket the change. Same thing with the other gifts.

    The idea is to drive traffic to the site, which seems to have worked. People go to see the Powerpuff girls bedroom, but while they're there they see DVD's, t-shirts, games... more mundane stuff. And some of them will buy.

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  23. Re:Considering the specification..... by CrankyFool · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You know, it seems like we could just have a standard slashdot meta-tag whose meaning is "well, I could do it more cheaply." We sure hear that refrain a whole bunch.

    By your logic, Nude in a Black Armchair (Picasso) is clearly not worth $45M because it only took 50 cents of materials and 2-3 hours of labor to make it.

    It's ART. Deal with it.

  24. Turn off your TV by NineNine · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The fact that you know these things (or I'm assuming you do... I have no idea), tells me that you spend too much time in front of your TV. Put down the Twinkies, and back sloowly away from your TV.

  25. 15" screen for $40K? by PizzaFace · · Score: 2, Funny

    No thanks, I'll take the "pro" version with the 17" screen for $60K.

  26. Re:The Ultimate Desk.... by Micro$will · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I made one, it's simple, but effective.

    I took a trip to Home Depot and got 4 10" x 5' pine boards, plus some furring strips for the edges. I butted 3 together with some flat aluminum plates and reinforced the edges with the furring strips. I sanded the edges, lightly stained it and sealed it and I had a decent surface to start with.

    I then snagged an old 2 drawer file cabinet from work, welded up a pair of adjustable legs, and made 2 pedestals for the 4th board. The file cabinet holds up the desk on one side, the legs on the other, and the pedestals hold up the "shelf" (4th board), which I use for the printer and fax machine. Since the pedestals are just hollow square steel boxes, they also hold a bunch of ethernet jacks on one side, and a switched outlet on the other.

    Lots of room for crap. 2 17" monitors. an old Pentium machine acting as a firewall, tons of old cds, an old laptop, empty coffee cups and pepsi cans, papers, pens, etc.

  27. The real ultimate desk by titaniam · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Here's a real desk worthy of slashdot. I designed it myself and am using it right now. Go see my computer table for some pictures. Why this strange contraption? It allows me to lie flat on my back with my desk suspended above me. I attach my computer to the rotatable desktop for perfect keyboard and display positioning. It sure helps me keep working while I recover from back problems. Not cool, but somewhat practical.

  28. In-desk PC by number · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I personally think Rusty's In-desk PC is the slickest I've seen. Optimised for silence too.

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