I like giant helpful tables

Within the MIT media lab, through four doors and up three flights of stairs stands a great table. Roughly 6×10 feet of mesmerizing tactile phantasmagoric construction, the MemTable by creator Seth Hunter is indeed real and highly prone to the continuous company of men peering into it’s depths.

I got to take part in a user study on the effectiveness of said table in the context of meeting to discuss and plan a fictitious business venture and the collective conclusion at the end of the study besides new heights of appreciative wonder of Seth was that besides the growing pains associated with learning a new technology, the table’s ability to record/photograph/allow freeform drawing/upload web content/shoot lightning bolts allowed for a deeper non-interfering analysis of  the interaction between people as they talk through their ideas. And yes, I *would* like one for my birthday thank you for asking.