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Santoro:
I'll bet it isn't very comfortable to play.  I am getting Carpal Tunnel Syndrome looking at that thing. 

I am not much for metal and glass either btw.  Cold and impersonal, it is.  Give me stone, wood, and other natural materials anyday.   

That said, it is a nice looking design if you are into the contemporary thing.
Lilwolf:
I like the consept.  And all problems seem pretty fixable. 

Does the control panel rotate back and hide?  I LOVE that idea. 

I also like the idea that the monitor would be invisible when turned off. 

So take the same basic idea... (sure change the metal to wood if you want...)  Make the control panel near flat when opened.  Shouldn't be hard, but will make the controls to move back a bit.  Or force a low profile controls... oh well.. but still should be doable.

Next, Make it monitor turn off when the drawer is closed....

so it looks like a cocktail table... with finished sides.  Then you open it and a monitor turns on... and boom your playing!

That would be cool!

And if you could get a quiet pc (in whatever way you can... water cooling or maybe an EPIA board)... or heck, just a fast computer with hibernate...  And your good to go with a very cool hidden cocktail table that maybe even a wife would love.
Lilwolf:
One more idea to this generic idea..

have it all wood.. And have your screen save be a picture of a wood panel with some detail.

Then a smoked glass to make it not so obvious that its a monitor... but wood itself.

That would be funny.
horseboy:
I don't think it would be very good for the screen to display the same static picture 23 hours a day, but it would be funny.
squirrellydw:
I like modern furniture, that's just not my taste.  Ugly might be a little harsh.
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