design

Seen in Madrid, Spain.

Designers at ALTAR furniture spend hojillions of hours hand-crafting this custom pinball/coffee table that can even move around on its own R2 legs!

Yes, we've featured more than a few Portal-related goodies in the past - we could fill a book with cakes alone - but the ingenuity of this one really got me. Check out more cool pics in the via link!

How is this sort of sculpture made? Via Colossal:

When first contemplating these glass sculptures by Seattle-based artist Carol Milne, your imagination runs wild trying to figure out how she does it. Glass has a melting point of around 1,500°F (815°C), so how could it possibly manipulated into neatly organized yarn-like strands that are looped around knitting needles. The answer lies in a technique invented by Milne in 2006 that involves aspects of knitting, lost-wax casting, mold-making, and kiln-casting.

Unfortunately it's also a bit pricey to get the thing imported here to the US.