Floppy Table made from rolled steel, with hidden compartment

Neulant van Exel's Floppy Table is made from rolled steel, and its dust-guard slides aside to reveal a cavity for storing your TV remote. No pricing info, so I assume this is one of those, "If you have you ask, you can't afford it" deals.

Material:

Hot-rolled steel (welded)
Stainless steel (welded)

Measures:

27.56" width x 25.59" height x 17.72" depth
70cm width x 45cm height x 65cm depth

Extras: Secret space

Floppy Table (via JWZ)

• [John Smith]

  Hidden?

  • [HubrisSonic]

     I know right, it’s the first thing I would do.

    • [Henry Pootel]

      Yup :)

  • [Karnzarnit]

    A better “hidden” (yet still completely obvious) compartment would be the circular part underneath.

  • [Richard]

     Hidden from anyone under 30! :o)

• [Per Hedetun]

  Hope the dust-guard isn’t spring-loaded, like on the original. That would take your hand off!

  • [jondean]

    I’m hoping it is! It’s not a 3.5″ without that refreshing “SNAP!”

    • [invictus]

      …of breaking bone.

• [Ian McLoud]

  Within the graphic on the homepage:
  X-MAS Special
  720 EURO

  Also on their specifications page:
  “Price:
  X-MAS-SPECIAL
  720 EURO (930 USD) + Shipping”
  http://floppytable.com/floppytable-specifications.html

• [Steve White]

  This should hold 720,000 small bite sizes snacks.

  • [Matthew Urso]

    very good

  • [Guest]

    I made a rough estimate based on rice and think you’re off by about a factor of 10, making this a single-sided (makes sense), single-density table. To increase the density you would need to use actual sugar (shugart), but data durability may suffer.

• [Brainspore]

  Yeah, but it only has enough capacity to store 1.44 MB (Miniature Books).

• [Eark_the_Bunny]

  Hey that is so cool; what’s a floppy disk?

  • [Stooge]

    It’s what they had before Viagra.

    • [invictus]

      I eagerly await your explanation of thumb drives.

      • [Ian Wood]

        Eagerly? Have I got a website for you.

        • [invictus]

          This had better be *at least* as risque as http://furnitureporn.com/

• [gadgetphile]

  Can you slide the record-lock tab?

  • [nixiebunny]

    Shhh! That’s the undocumented secret compartment, for your stash.

  • [Max]

     Wow, I totally forgot THOSE existed.

• [nixiebunny]

  How old do you have to be to understand it? 

• [Jim Saul]

  A follow-up design of a card table in 5 1/4 would be cool.

  If you clipped out a bit of edge you could double-side it.

  • [Itsumishi]

    When I play cards I want to rest my elbows on the table without it bending under my weight. So no to the 5″ 1/4 model.

    • [James Agenbroad]

       considering the size, wouldn’t that be 5 1/4′. (which is to say foot rather than inch)
       And of course I remember using 8″ floppies, that’s what the software for the magnetic tape drive was on.  And don’t get me started on punched paper tape, which I was still using at the dawn of this century.

• [graou]

  “If you have you ask”
  I’m not fluent in english but i think there’s a typo there.

  Cool table anyway.

• [Nagurski]

  All steel you can buy is rolled into useful shapes and thicknesses. ‘Rolled steel’ is not a useful descriptor. 

  • [jordawesome]

    but “hot-rolled” is, as it distinguishes it from cold-worked or cold-drawn material.  Cold-worked material typically has tighter tolerancing, as well as different mechanical, machining and even welding properties as compared to a chemically similar hot-rolled grade.  Its been my experience that when ordering steel, defining the process of initial shape forming from the mill is a requirement when purchasing the material.  This may not be the case with structural members (i.e. HSS,  WF sections, etc.) but is absolutely the case when ordering bar and tube-stock.
    In the scope of the ad-copy for this table though, saying that it is hot-rolled steel serves no purpose that to make it sound fancy.  Like saying something made of aluminum or stainless is “aircraft grade.”  Doesn’t mean that its been specially formulated or designed for use in aerospace, it just means someone one time used some once in an aerospace application.    

  • [Thad]

     Some of it is cast. Some of it is forged.

• [Jay Converse]

  That’s not a floppy, that’s a stiffy.  The last true floppies were 5 1/4″, this is a 3 1/2″ stiffy.

  • [Max]

    It’s a floppy. Because lots of jeeps aren’t made by Chrysler either.

  • [Jim Saul]

    I doubt that’s a nomenclature you’d want to use in many circumstances. 

    “My new coffee table is awesome… it looks just like the 3.5 inch stiffies I had in high school!”

    • [Thad]

       Especially as I still have some today. I do usually keep them hidden

• [jordawesome]

  If you kept the same volumetric data density as a 3.5″ disk, it would hold 2857 MB (double-sided).

  I assumed a volume of 1.42 in^3 for a 3.5 disk (I don’t have one to measure, so I took 3.5 x 3.25 x 0.125).  I’ve also assumed a disk thickness of 4″ on this table.  The data volume of the table is then 2821 in^3, about 1984 times the volume of a 3.5 Disk.  The capacity of this table then would be about 2857 MB.  

  I bet it would be loud when it inevitably failed on you, dooming disk 3 of 6 of your photoshop 2.0 installation to oblivion.

• [Romke Soldaat]

  Slide to unlock? They’ll get sued by Apple for that!

• [Marios P.]

  How much does it weight?
  I’d assume it needs a crane to position even if its hollow underneath

• [W Thomas]

  That hidden compartment looks big enough for several of my VHS tapes. Perfect!

• [Stooge]

  Labor cost: the disks themselves are free, but it takes a week to scrape off the AOL label.

• [Crashproof]

  This is what happens when someone copies that floppy.

• [Itsumishi]

  It is hand made furniture being produced on a limited run? Also supply and demand.