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Fiber Optic Table Illuminates Your Dining

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the and-freaks-out-friends dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Trio of sizes? by orangesquid · · Score: 2, Funny

    Only in the imperial-size US. Here, tables are 59" wide and have a variety of lengths. In the rest of the world, it's sort of a "one-size-fits-all" mentality, leading to S/M/L tables that are not only all 150cm wide, but all 400cm long as well. ;)

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  2. WTF is this doing on Slashdot? by 6Yankee · · Score: 3, Funny

    Tacky. No digg.

  3. Re:Trio of sizes? by mangu · · Score: 5, Funny
    * Small: 150x400 cm (59x157 inches).
    * Medium: 150x400 cm (59x197 inches).
    * Large: 150x400 cm (59x236 inches).


    I guess inches come in three sizes:
    *small inches are 2.54 cm
    *medium inches are 2.03 cm
    *large inches are 1.69 cm


    You see, small is large and large is small. This makes sense, well, at least as much sense as anyting else related to medieval measurement systems.

  4. Re:Fiber optic = Glass by JonyEpsilon · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.

    Won't somebody think of the children!!!

  5. Re:The inventor was never a kid? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Not really. Torch (British English) = Flashlight (U.S. English)

    You need to get the latest English to English Across the Pond translator.