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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.

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

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  9. 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

  10. 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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  11. 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...

  12. 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.

  13. 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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  14. /. 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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  15. 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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