It looks like a stack of iPhone 4s, but this is a coffee table — the iTable.
It’s also a speaker dock with a motorized speaker bar that rises like a stage organ when your hand is swiped across the touch-sensitive controls (see the video below).
Designed a built by Kyle Buckner, who is best known for custom car interiors, the iTable is the first in a line of Apple-themed furniture.
“I am creating a line with this category,” said Buckner by IM.
Lots more pictures and a video after the jump:
Buckner’s iTable has a scratch-proof finish, a built-in subwoofer and a pair of LED-lit cup holders. Pricing hasn’t been set. Each table is custom made. Buckner says he’s happy to make variations based on other hardware — an iPod shuffle, perhaps. Email [email protected]
Leander Kahney is the editor and publisher of Cult of Mac.
Leander is a longtime technology reporter and the author of six acclaimed books about Apple, including two New York Times bestsellers: Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products and Inside Steve’s Brain, a biography of Steve Jobs.
He’s also written a top-selling biography of Apple CEO Tim Cook and authored Cult of Mac and Cult of iPod, which both won prestigious design awards. Most recently, he was co-author of Cult of Mac, 2nd Edition.
Leander has been reporting about Apple and technology for nearly 30 years.
Before founding Cult of Mac as an independent publication, Leander was news editor at Wired.com, where he was responsible for the day-to-day running of the Wired.com website. He headed up a team of six section editors, a dozen reporters and a large pool of freelancers. Together the team produced a daily digest of stories about the impact of science and technology, and won several awards, including several Webby Awards, 2X Knight-Batten Awards for Innovation in Journalism and the 2010 MIN (Magazine Industry Newsletter) award for best blog, among others.
Before being promoted to news editor, Leander was Wired.com’s senior reporter, primarily covering Apple. During that time, Leander published a ton of scoops, including the first in-depth report about the development of the iPod. Leander attended almost every keynote speech and special product launch presented by Steve Jobs, including the historic launches of the iPhone and iPad. He also reported from almost every Macworld Expo in the late ’90s and early ‘2000s, including, sadly, the last shows in Boston, San Francisco and Tokyo. His reporting for Wired.com formed the basis of the first Cult of Mac book, and subsequently this website.
Before joining Wired, Leander was a senior reporter at the legendary MacWeek, the storied and long-running weekly that documented Apple and its community in the 1980s and ’90s.
Leander has written for Wired magazine (including the Issue 16.04 cover story about Steve Jobs’ leadership at Apple, entitled Evil/Genius), Scientific American, The Guardian, The Observer, The San Francisco Chronicle and many other publications.
Leander has a postgrad diploma in artificial intelligence from the University of Aberdeen, and a BSc (Hons) in experimental psychology from the University of Sussex.
He has a diploma in journalism from the UK’s National Council for the Training of Journalists.
Leander lives in San Francisco, California, and is married with four children. He’s an avid biker and has ridden in many long-distance bike events, including California’s legendary Death Ride.
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12 responses to “This Table Is Touch Sensitive, Like The iPhone That Inspired It”
and it’s only the ugliest table I’ve ever seen.. HORRIBLE
It’s the ugliest table I’ve ever seen. Why are so many screws visible? And why waste touch technology on one gesture that could just as easily have been a small button. So many designers don’t understand when and when not to use touch technology…
This was Steve Jobs’ desk….until he replaced it with neatly stacked piles of cash.
This is unique but I don’t know why my heart does not accept it. Beautiful home decoration is an important task for me but this table is not suitable for decoration of my home and office.
looks like a star trek table
Fugly ! And how is it more than just a bigass box of… Nothing. You can’t even sit at it :)