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Submit Response is a weblog by Jack Mottram, a journalist who lives in Glasgow, Scotland. There are 1281 posts in the archives. You can subscribe to a feed. This post was made on June 22, 2004 and belongs in the site news category. The previous post was Spontaneous Pneumothorax Patient Network, and the next post is ‘Rubbish’.

Remember The Drift Table?

Remember the Drift Table? Way back in December, I found out that I was getting the chance to play with a prototype coffee table stuffed full of aerial photographs of England & Wales (but not Scotland) for viewing through a small viewport, with the visible landscape changing according to the distribution and weight of objects on the table’s surface.

It looks like this:

A low coffee-table on wheels, with a viewing window set into the top

Cool, huh?

Sadly, before I got my mitts on the thing, one of its hard drives failed.

Happily, it’s now all better, and coming round my house tomorrow afternoon!

For those interested in reading about a man staring gleefully at a table for six weeks, The Drift Table Weblog will return to life tomorrow. Its main purpose is to help me easily document my time with the table for the RCA and Equator Project people behind the project, but I’ll also do my best to post more broadly, about matters relating (tangentially, I imagine) to the table.

Posted at 3pm on 22/06/04 by Jack Mottram to the site news category.
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  1. Ooh spiffy. Another xml for bloglines :)

    Posted by Kevin at 9pm on 22.06.04

  2. drift table party at jack’s place!
    i think dancing on the table might be fun…

    Posted by Donna at 11pm on 22.06.04

  3. And I think I have to sign a contract promising that no one will dance on it!

    We could eat brunch off it at the weekend, though - “Oh no! The scrambled eggs are taking us to Slough!” etc.

    Posted by Jack at 11am on 23.06.04

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