A new furniture unit out in the luxe market has caught our fancy. Called the Howard Miller Ithaca Pub Table, this one is a beauty of a wine and bar furniture. Ty Pennington has designed this table that comes with four full-extension drawers for all sorts of storages from beverages to snacks or your favorite deck. At any point of time, four people can very comfortably use it.

In fact, the Ithaca table also includes a removable sandstone drink coaster to absorb moisture. And the best part is that the table does not come alone. There are plenty of fun accessories accompanying this one like backgammon pieces with dice cups, dice, a betting die and chess and checker pieces in fabric bags. So, you can be quite sure of a fun-filled time with your bunch of pals.

The central part of the table is both removable and reversible. The surface is kind of a chessboard playing one made from walnut and maple veneers and rare olive as burl. This recreational plus bar storage table can be yours for $1,500.

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Beijing managed to invite a pool of attention cause of its ‘Bird’s Nest’ National Stadium that can lodge track and field events at a cost much lower than London’s Wembley Stadium, which is honored as world’s most expensive stadium. Against the development cost of $500 million invested upon the Bird’s Nest, the Wembley touched $1.5 billion mark during it’s erection in 2003-2007. Designed and developed in 1924, Wembley Stadium is being witnessed as the focal point for sporting events in England.

Its revamped face is surely the spot for hosting home games for England’s National Soccer Team, domestic league title games, and others. The structural formation and design of the stadium sports world class restaurants to lodge 2,000 plus people in one go in the environs of 2,618 toilets.

The firm support of the structure is provided by the outsized metal arch, ‘The Steel Tiara,’ hence eradicating the want for pillar. Did I tell you the stadium even facilitates hairdryers comfort?

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Those who can’t control their fingers from reaching classic arcade cabinet but fail to found one can now take a deep sigh. Christened as Retro Space, the designer cabinet is developed by Martjin Koch to memorialize the first ever cupboard for an arcade i.e. Computer Space, the cabinet unveiled in 1971. But today with the contemporary offering, it seems to mar the outdated machinery.

The arcade cabinet features over 100 arcade games, gamut of emulators and is accessible on a HD media jukebox. It also sports 1080p video playback, a 24-inch 1920×1200 monitor, Sanwa joysticks and buttons, and a trackball.

But if it falls an inch below your expectations then the retro cabinet also boasts of having a 2gHz Intel Core2Duo processor, 2GB RAM, WiFi, Bluetooth, and Ethernet. If you vouch for my opinion then for sure it offers the arcade gaming befitting the 21st century taste.

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If by now you have tagged slot-car racing as child’s play then its time to revise your definition as there exists a bigger edition of slot-car track for big-you. Called 8-Lane Salextric, the entertainment devise is no less than a monster and demands a roomy accommodation and the company of pool of friends’. It’s truly irresistible. Devised seamlessly, the high-quality game features the best Scalextric track and can house eight scalextric cars at once. So, next time when you look for a venue to schedule a party, the obvious option would be your basement. And if you fall short of a reason to throw a party then how about organizing a race themed party this time?

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With every week we put you across latest versions of foosball table and following the exercise is this week’s offering of Robotic Foosball Table from The University of Adelaide by engineering students Tammy Chau, Jason Then, Matthew Turnbull, Sam Wan and Steven Cheng. An out product of their final engineering project, the table is formed utilizing a 96-pinhole camera, LED sensor grid, custom-written software and a precision actuation system, hence offering an access to the table to beat the pants off of a human player.

A logic-monitoring and servo-motor actuation system based on the PC-based SoftLogix podium and Kinetix 2000 motion control technology persuade the game’s controls. I sit back and wonder if the similar amounts of efforts were made upon fighting the global warming issues, which is now being tagged as an eternal debatable issue with no hope to be resolved soon.

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We have been covering magnificent to minuscule forms of computer but researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh have ventured into a different domain to develop a device called ‘mind-reading’ computer. Hoping to be a fully functional mind-reading machine, it aims at predicting the activity prototype a brain tends to create for a specific word, hence offering a better indulgence of how and where brain stores facts. They are also hoping that the mechanism would enable them improve treatments for language chaos and learning disabilities.

Around nine volunteers have taken the initiative to undergo this training process. They were provided with 58 words and were asked to enquire about the connotation and value of the words. As a part of the process, brain scans were done via magnetic resonance imaging, thereby capturing their thinking process amidst different words.

Then the computer was assigned with two new words and images and was anticipated to pair them up correctly, which finally happened. Tom Mitchell, leading then study disclosed the next step is to test brain motion for idioms rather than individual words.

Via ComputerWorld