Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum

Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: RayB on February 06, 2009, 12:56:23 pm

Title: Finish up your game room with a GLASS POOl TABLE!
Post by: RayB on February 06, 2009, 12:56:23 pm: Only $26k

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10157791-1.html
Title: Re: Finish up your game room with a GLASS POOl TABLE!
Post by: Ginsu Victim on February 06, 2009, 01:17:19 pm: That link didn't give me the right video. I searched for "pool table" and nothing came up.
Title: Re: Finish up your game room with a GLASS POOl TABLE!
Post by: Kevin Mullins on February 06, 2009, 01:24:15 pm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r92ddHb9u4Y&eurl=http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10157791-1.html
Title: Re: Finish up your game room with a GLASS POOl TABLE!
Post by: Ginsu Victim on February 06, 2009, 01:25:19 pm: thanks kev

Wow, that's a thing of beauty.
Title: Re: Finish up your game room with a GLASS POOl TABLE!
Post by: Zero_Hour on February 06, 2009, 01:57:59 pm: That is pretty slick. I just hope they have cues that don't require chalk - I imagine the OCD types windexing the thing after every game.
Title: Re: Finish up your game room with a GLASS POOl TABLE!
Post by: Hoopz on February 06, 2009, 01:59:48 pm: Quote from: Zero_Hour on February 06, 2009, 01:57:59 pm
I imagine the OCD types windexing the thing after every game.
:laugh2:

Maybe wiping after every stroke? Imagine having that table though. That really is amazing.
Title: Re: Finish up your game room with a GLASS POOl TABLE!
Post by: Visitor Q on February 06, 2009, 02:04:54 pm: Hmmm... Looks kinda junky to me . :dunno
Title: Re: Finish up your game room with a GLASS POOl TABLE!
Post by: drventure on February 06, 2009, 02:11:56 pm: Oh! Oh! I want to be the first to perform a masse' shot on that baby!
Title: Re: Finish up your game room with a GLASS POOl TABLE!
Post by: Ginsu Victim on February 06, 2009, 02:16:30 pm: Quote from: Visitor Q on February 06, 2009, 02:04:54 pm
Hmmm... Looks kinda junky to me . :dunno

That's because you don't have any money left after what you dumped into your project. ;)
Title: Re: Finish up your game room with a GLASS POOl TABLE!
Post by: Hoopz on February 06, 2009, 02:28:54 pm: Yeah, but he can remove four screws now in his trackball without flipping out...too much. ;)
Title: Re: Finish up your game room with a GLASS POOl TABLE!
Post by: drventure on February 06, 2009, 02:31:49 pm: Seeing the ball return is awesome. If they just threw a few more rube goldberg-esque-isms in the process, it'd be perfect!
Title: Re: Finish up your game room with a GLASS POOl TABLE!
Post by: ark_ader on February 06, 2009, 03:54:23 pm: Looks retarded, and I would not be able to play a serious game on it.

Nothing like walking into a dim room with a nice bright lamp above a dark green felt. 8)
Title: Re: Finish up your game room with a GLASS POOl TABLE!
Post by: TOK on February 06, 2009, 04:03:03 pm: Looks like one of the cheap convertible type things they sell at sporting good stores at Christmas.
I'd rather have a real table for $2600, let alone $26,000. :P
Title: Re: Finish up your game room with a GLASS POOl TABLE!
Post by: RayB on February 06, 2009, 04:10:25 pm: Quote from: Ginsu Victim on February 06, 2009, 01:17:19 pm
That link didn't give me the right video. I searched for "pool table" and nothing came up.
Wow, sorry. Talk about epic link fail.

This is the correct link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10157791-1.html
Title: Re: Finish up your game room with a GLASS POOl TABLE!
Post by: hyiu on February 06, 2009, 04:17:32 pm: it looks pretty trendy.... but not my cup of tea....

even if there's no budget limit, I would not get it....
I prefer an old school nicely crafted pool table if I have $$$....
Title: Re: Finish up your game room with a GLASS POOl TABLE!
Post by: ahofle on February 06, 2009, 06:09:09 pm: Interesting and beautiful, but the balls do appear to behave a bit differently on that surface (they didn't show putting english on the cue ball that I noticed either). Also, I wonder what it sounds like (probably noisier than a felt lined table I'm guessing since they muted the audio hehe).
Title: Re: Finish up your game room with a GLASS POOl TABLE!
Post by: HaRuMaN on February 06, 2009, 06:50:55 pm: Wonder if they paid the Beastie Boys royalities for using their music in the background...
Title: Re: Finish up your game room with a GLASS POOl TABLE!
Post by: RayB on February 06, 2009, 06:55:53 pm: The glass has a layer of some sort of material they claim causes the balls to behave the same as if on felt.
Title: Re: Finish up your game room with a GLASS POOl TABLE!
Post by: Kevin Mullins on February 06, 2009, 08:22:58 pm: I was kinda curious as to how it "sounded" as well.

And as for the layer of stuff on the table.... I'd be afraid to damage it.
Cuz then what do you do?
So I'd probably not attempt any English stuff on it.

Otherwise I kinda like it...... but not to the tune of $26000 like it.
Title: Re: Finish up your game room with a GLASS POOl TABLE!
Post by: danny_galaga on February 07, 2009, 07:24:49 am: it looks cool, but im sure theres a reason pool tables are the way they are. im no pool player myself, but i bet a game on that would be crap. and the compnination of two hard surfaces always hitting each other...
Title: Re: Finish up your game room with a GLASS POOl TABLE!
Post by: Ginsu Victim on February 07, 2009, 11:22:55 am: Quote from: danny_galaga on February 07, 2009, 07:24:49 am
and the compnination of two hard surfaces always hitting each other...

Well, they claim it has a clear, felt-like surface, so it's not really that much harder a surface. (Plus, I dare you bang your head on a normal pool table surface.......did you do it? Yeah it hurt. You shouldn't do what people tell you)
Title: Re: Finish up your game room with a GLASS POOl TABLE!
Post by: patrickl on February 07, 2009, 11:43:32 am: Yeah a pooltable surface is basically just a piece (or pieces) of slate with a thin layer of cloth on top.

I do feel the balls don't run enough in that clip though. But then maybe they went for home/bar cloth rolling resistance instead of that of competition cloth.

I've got a Brunswick Montebello (http://www.brunswickbilliards.com/brunswick_collection/tables/european/montebello.html) table, but it's still in storage. I miss it. I should get going with my game room :P
Title: Re: Finish up your game room with a GLASS POOl TABLE!
Post by: Ginsu Victim on February 07, 2009, 10:59:42 pm: I agree the balls seem to slow down quicker than they should.
Title: Re: Finish up your game room with a GLASS POOl TABLE!
Post by: Ummon on February 09, 2009, 04:16:18 am: Hmmm. I wonder how the perspective would affect shots. Also, notice none of the balls were hit hard enough that to bounce. What about jump shots, etc? HEY, and what about surface wear?? Will that require removing it and re-doing it in the shop?

I can see that price because: it's heavy duty construction; it's a special process for the surface; and it's a total niche market. I'd like to check one out, but I bet I'd rather have a custom design of my own....or, at the very least, I'd use a tinted, translucent glass. Maybe amber. Or maybe a super dark purple.
Title: Re: Finish up your game room with a GLASS POOl TABLE!
Post by: pinballwizard79 on February 09, 2009, 07:42:52 pm: makes me think of strippers & their addictions.

it just seems like it was made for such things
Title: Re: Finish up your game room with a GLASS POOl TABLE!
Post by: SNAAKE on February 09, 2009, 10:09:28 pm: 26k ??!?!?!?!?

Id pay $500 and put it together myself. ikea should consider making/selling glass pool tables.
Title: Re: Finish up your game room with a GLASS POOl TABLE!
Post by: Ummon on February 10, 2009, 10:47:30 pm: The construction of that table is pretty high end. Just the metal I bet costs several hundred. Then it's machined - welding would look ultra uncool - powder-coated or anodised, who knows what else. Hell, just the design has to be to engineer's specs so that the play field is, and will stay, level.