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."

Comments

Way too tacky

[Timesprout]

Think I'll stick with candles thank you very much.

Re:Way too tacky

[Aranykai]

Agreed. Just because you can make something doesn't mean you should.

Re:Way too tacky

[arivanov]

Yep. The 900+ quid they are asking for it will make for lots of decent wine (if it is not French) and decent grub instead.

Is the article text stolen?

[the_unknown_soldier]

Read this. that's an amazing coincidence!

Re:Is the article text stolen?

[figleaf]

Engadget did credit the source. Using this logic Slashdot also stole the text.

Trio of sizes?

[LiquidCoooled]

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).

Re:Trio of sizes?

[orangesquid]

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. ;)

Re:Trio of sizes?

[mangu]

* 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.

Skip the blogspam and go to the source

[fotbr]

http://www.lumigram.com/catalog/product_info.php?c Path=1&products_id=86

WTF is this doing on Slashdot?

[6Yankee]

Tacky. No digg.

The inventor was never a kid?

[niceone]

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.

Fiber optic = Glass

[dcrockerjr]

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.

Re:Fiber optic = Glass

[JonyEpsilon]

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!!!