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Fiber Optic Table Illuminates Your Dining
Deepa writes "We highly doubt LumiGram's Luminous Fiber Optic Tablecloth was designed with power outages in mind, but why hook up a boring string of lamps or fiddle with half melted candles when you can plug this bad boy into the generator? The cloth, which has fiber optics woven throughout, cotton borders, and a Europlug mains adapter, proves most useful when the lights are dimmed, and should prove quite the centerpiece at your next get-together. The illuminating device is available in a trio of sizes, comes in a variety of color schemes."
Think I'll stick with candles thank you very much.
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I've suffered too many seizures just by watching such optic cables from certain angles. Trust me, no one should start convulting on the floor during parties...Too many of my Geek friends have had access to 'perty' fibre optic lights for a few years now.
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it's like nothing else, and probably not the power hog the post implied, for this distance you don't need repeaters - and TFA mentions battery power.
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And for a special price: we will upgrade the table cloth into a professional tool that "electronically" teaches your kids NOT to spill drinks nor bang their hands, arms or even heads on the table.
A win win for everyone!
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Metric conversions seem a bit 'odd' on both the article and the proper page:
Dimensions:
* Small: 150x400 cm (59x157 inches).
* Medium: 150x400 cm (59x197 inches).
* Large: 150x400 cm (59x236 inches).
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Great!
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How in hell does a marketing press release from luxurylaunches.com count as "News for Nerds?" When this thing makes some sort of actual news ("SCO outfits conference rooms with ridiculous table coverings, raging inferno ensues"), then perhaps a spot on the front page is merited.
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...to eat dinner with everyone up-lit like Citizen Kane. The tech is cool, but I could think of better uses. Sheets, anyone?
I'm not so excited by the tablecloth, but I wouldn't mind trying some case mods with this stuff.
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Over a grand for a table cloth? Adding five or nine hundred for larger sizes? Please.
If you look at the table with the lights dimmed so that you can be wowed by the illuminating table-cloth then the food will be silhouetted. You'll just get to see black shapes; or at least darker shapes. Then your guests won't know what they're about to eat. Mwuhahaha
Small: 150x400 cm (59x157 inches). Medium: 150x400 cm (59x197 inches).
meh, i was just about to order, but now i just can't decide. these choices! hate'em!
This seems like a bad idea to me. People's faces look bad when illuminated from below (I guess because we're used to seeing them illuminated from above). That's why kids put a torches under their chins - it looks funny.
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it works in batteries, and I bet it's waterproof to some extent (as you can wash it by hand)... I bet we'll bee seeing a lot of applications for this kind of "cloth".
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I disapprove of any use of fiber optics that doesn't involve massive data throughput.
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While fiber optics may have various decorative purposes such a product that encourages direct physical contact with them is worrisome. Even if measures were taken in production to prevent glass dust, spikes, etc. from making it into the product consider that something like a tablecloth would become worn with use, breaking fibers and causing bits of glass to become embedded in the skin or, when shaken out, glass dust to become inhaled. Consider the sort of problems fiberglass insulation workers run into. The safest way to display one would probably be with a sealed frame, allowing you to visually enjoy it while maintaining a protective layer of plastic between the glass and your family.
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This Italian firm has sold stuff like that for years.
My apologies, I hadn't heard of plastic fiber optics before. Please mod down or delete my original comment.
Meh, that's not nearly as cool as Microsoft's Big Ass Table
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I personally would rather have something like this done with electroluminescent wire instead of Fiber Optic. EL wire throws better light usually and I think it is a hell of a lot easier to work with.
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Sounds great but seriously, how many readers here even use a cotton table cloth?
Afaict fibers used for this kind of purpose are generally plastic because its cheaper and easier to work with (communication fibers are glass because they need to be very low dispersion and low loss).
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Total darkness hides even more flaws.
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... and like what time did we drop man? Cuz, like dude, the table is glowing... whoahhh... I can make trails in the table glow with my hand, check it out!
$1,200 for a tablecloth? Sheesh. For that much money there are much better options for illuminating a table (say a video projector or something else more useful and/or practical.)
...the sheer bandwidth that can go through that tablecloth!
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Seems like a very poor idea considering how many spills occur on a tablecloth.
Imagine spilling a beer and getting an electric shock?
As always, if it's on the net it's probably best suited for porn. Just think about it, no longer will you have those hard to get shots with poor lighting with this new source of light!
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