This table from designers Kram/Weisshaar may look like a normal table, more or less, but hidden beneath inside its slim top is the capability to cook and/or warm plates of food while simultaneously chilling a beverage inches away. The table is made using a special ceramic tile called SapienStone and are controlled via a touch interface on the underside. Of course, we would burn ourselves on this thing with fifteen minutes of starting to use it, but we're sure that says more about our faulty design than the table's.
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