Amazing new technology

[khijasmith]

great video thanks

[jayejayeee]

some great inforamtion here thanks

[Scottatnord]

Or they could use 3 legs instead of four...

[EsamoKoram]

I don't know what's amazing in that.

[jarmingl]

3 leg table is the best solution like a pencil is to an antigravity pen. Now, there are issues not solved but that they were not part of the original problem. Leveling and surface flatness are 2 differnet issues, and has noting to do with 3 or 4 legs (You can have the hydraulic system in a 3 legs table). Certainly, if there a restaurant table on non flat surface, solution is to fix the surface and use a 3 legs table with leg long enough.

[MotoScootMech]

People have said it time and time again. Four legged tables are fundamentally overconstrained... three legged tables will solve this problem in most cases. And no, Flattony, three legged tables are not that unstable; you just need to use the right leg geometry and make sure that the legs are outrigged enough so that the torques applied to the legs will not be greater than what the legs provide.

[tuffguy007]

should have a spirit level built in.

[lordandprotector]

Hydraulics ? really ???? So often the SIMPLE answer eludes us .....

[YoureDeaddotcom]

YoureDead(.)com

[montjcm]

Alguem já disse :Basta ter 3 (tres) pernas

[Mistelpfeil]

Simply use 3 legs....the most stable table ...no point in inventing such nonsense

[TirianB]

Are people stupid or something? The solution is a table with three legs instead of four.

[moebobby]

I have a great idea, make a 3 legged table, no hydrolics and about the same price as a normal table I would guess, and it adjusts itself when you set it down. Now compare how long they took to think of that and the 30 seconds for me to type this in.

[datzfast]

@moebobby actually a three legg table works untill you get sued buy the customer when she sets her fat ass on it and falls in the floor. didnt you ever wonder why you never saw a three legged table? you probably think three wheel cars are a good idea also.

[davidls11]

@datzfast Not to mention the fact that three legged tables don't address the level top issue.

[datzfast]

@david ls11 damn straight it wouldn't level the top at all. and i wasn't kidding about how fast you would be sued for having three legged tables. they are accidents waiting to happen. the only way you might get away with it would be triangle topped tables and you see none of those either and probably for a good reason also.

[davidls11]

@datzfast Of course if you want to see some REALLY amazing new technology...

/watch?v=9CIsBqNWmhU&feature=r­elated

[pixelsgold]

How will the price of this compare to wadding up pieces of paper and cardboard?

[pichulick]

isn't it simpler to buy a table with just 3 foots? insteat of 4???

[COLORISED]

Quando l'esperienza aiuta...

[241Groundhog]

A gravel porch, if you can make one, solves the same problem. The ground contours to the table, the table doesn't contour to the ground.

[TiagoTiagoT]

how does it know how to get horizontal? or people can nudge it into getting better aligned? or is there the risk that by placing the table tilted it will stay tilted until you pick it up and try again?

[cody481]

what a wonderful idea now tourists to the grand canyon will be able to eat lunch halfway down

[ssslawek]

its cool, but i just got better and simpler idea - 3 legged table. never tilts and no adjustment is necessary, because there is nothing to adjust.

i am leaving now to patent office.

[Aspenly]

But then the table would be less stable. Plus, putting weight on corners would cause the table to tip, making it useless when more then 2 people are using it.

Oh yes, and you win the retard award for misspelling "stupid"

[RayJoel2007]

Would also be cool as a car suspesion :D

[claus93Sethsen]

Great now i can enjoy my coffee more.. Greatest invention ever. long live sarcasm

[GeeZeRWoD]

the table must have just 3 legs to avoid this problem

[levogiro]

touche!!! ;) it's KISS baby!!

it's like when the american spent millons making a ballpen able to work in space... and the soviets had pencils... xD the story seems to be an urban legend... but the idea is quite the same...

[flattony]

I love this story, but no one has asked what happens when you snap the lead, they must have to be sure they take those enclosed pencil sharpeners with them, probably have one screwed to the desk on board the space ship.

[waabladeeble]

@flattony They use a knife for it :)

[kuei1248]

@flattony Use a mechanical pencil and just push the lead advance button.

[mguzman011]

wow i actually never heard of that! (no sarcasm)

"Get this damn pen to work!!"*looks over at next spaceship* "PENCILS!!

lol something like that?

[bobviously]

This is also an urban legend. Check it out on Snopes.

[90kulu33]

@levogiro i have that pen D: its called "fishers Space pen" its so lame xD i perfer the russian version!

[187781jason]

@levogiro

Ok smart ass.... Based on your comment what cost effective method would you use?

[RayJoel2007]

not if you also want to have it level.

[kovacs88]

@GeeZeRWoD Too unstable in a bar.

[flattony]

The addition of the technology should not increase the retail cost of a table by more than $20 USD, it will be up to the furniture producers what price they add.

It is engineered to last the life of the table; launching globally mid 2010.

[Jaybeat2k6]

It's an amazing invention, but I must agree, it's wasted on a table. If it was made cheap, or more affordable to the general public or small business owner, then maybe they could take off properly.

Their stocks are really, REALLY cheap at the moment, from what I hear.

[realcore90]

omg this is going to make life complete

[acdc10133]

wow cuz i'm gonna spend a grand on a table....

[SongsAndLyrics1]

What about their chairs...?  xD

[Commodore1236]

great, but it's way too wasteful to use on a table

this should be used on big structures like science bases on ice like the once in the north pole ...

plus, they used something like that in top end model SUVs and 4X4s.

[kyleain]

i just farted on your face

[flattony]

Not according to several of the worlds leading Deck manufactures (Turn Table)

I an attempt to express some of the multiple benefits FLAT delivers I thought I would pick an example in a an area you may be able to grasp.

Provides instant perfect load distribution between each point of contact on the surface below, no matter how many times its moved.

December 2010

[Twentysixbillion]

ok yes it could be a great invention, here we are only shown a cafe coffee table using the technology which seems a bit silly, but i see your point ty

[netpolice151]

just use screw type mechanism...a lot of ways to do things....but what will become popular are the ones that are more practical

[manoman0]

use a three legged table. it will never woble. quite simple. lol.

[kovacs88]

@manoman0 In a bar??? How long before it gets knocked over?

[TheHaxis]

@manoman0 but will it be level?

[CoLPluto]

so what would be the weight capacity and how much force does it take to actually move the hydraulic cylinder? i say they have a locking mechanism that doesn't allow the cylinder to contract or expand once set unless you either a. have a key or b. press a button or something similar. otherwise customers will just put force down on the leg and make it uneven again.

[mityaandco]

what about simply 3 legs? not 4..

[sciencedude007]

Seems convenient, but i think the last few people are over-hyping it

[noname7913]

I think the supposed advantage it has over three legs is a table top that's level to earth's gravity. I just wonder how they keep the hydraulics from moving around giving a slow wobble when pressure is applied.

[moeshie147]

LOL cool

[Bradjd56]

yo yo check out my table its got hydros look at that 3 leg action goin wooie that shit is pimp lol

[TepochaTe]

and when you put a leg in the table or press it, its fcuks off isnt?

[TheBigCollapse]

Three legs. DUH!

[EpiXl33t]

DUH!

[HellonearthKratos]

Smart BUT ! when the tables stays there for good , but what happens wen you move the tables do u have to put it in the same spot ?

[year2kill2010]

oh my gosh my table wabbles im gonna die lol stop bitchen and go to a different table u ever think of that???

[year2kill2010]

just use 3 legs instead it makes it alot easier seeing as how it cant move or shake or anything. I hope u didnt spend alot of time on this u should be using it to make actual changes not minor ones like this. I mean seriously if this really bothers people i should make an invention that wipes my ass for me because thats a big inconvenience.

[Jinxks]

new show coming up. pimp my table.

[nickjarvis01]

imagine what would go on it!

millions of gadgets like ps3 tv blu ray coffee making machine

[rcfreak2493]

wow that's no were near amassing. i could have come up with that shit in my basement. i didn't no that uneven tables were a nation wide pandemic

[Mrzeng]

totally lame, exicts already in more simple techniques.

[Chrisbee62]

So does a wedge under one leg

[gamer0unreleased]

dude, check out the hydraulics on my table!!

[MarkusBerkus]

or....

3 legs and don't worry about it?

[mobimountain]

Tripot minded orginator :)

[mituub]

imagine somebody comes up with a virus for this. Every now and then the table would start to brake-dance.

[DrumTheWhiteKid]

love it!

[lXlSnype]

lol bullsey088, yeah that might fix the wobble, but whats the use when that table will just be unlevel. The application of this new tech still applies to help fix the level, and wobble of a table.

[bullseye088]

why not ust have a table with 3 legs as 3 legs cant wobble

[RonaldLandor]

Cuz they had a big budget and wanted to burn it on some useless crap

[MattisBodtker]

HOLY SHIT!!!! I will never dine at a cafe without this.... Thank you for opening my eyes!

[Dark1942]

wow, this will certanly change my life for ever...

[8623134628181]

about time some one fixed that problem

[getoffmyinternet]

Strange, I always though that making a table level was kind of a set it and forget it thing. We should probably just not use a gravel as our floors.

[dzidzelis]

funny but very useful ;D

[agewise]

Fancy and a great design. However, I believe, I could add something more for the money at a fraction of the cost and possibly open the doors for all the people that would not rather pay $500.00 a table.

[flattony]

Its hard to believe the comments about three legs, don't you think that after millions of years of man producing tables we would just make them all three legs, this does not happen because they are very unstable. Why are 88% of tables 4 or 5 legs, its not because the manufactures want to increase their costs.

PS. You will hardly notice the extra cost FLAT adds to a table.

[getoffmyinternet]

88% huh? Wow, you're really compassionate about tables. Are you saying you can't make a 3 legged table stable? I'd like to think you're smarter than that. Tables that have 5 legs do it for form, not function. And a typical 4 legged table is designed so that you can push in 4 chairs. Common sense dude. If the table is only supported by the center with feet extending outward, it doesn't much matter how many feet there are. Many restaurants have 3 legged tables, they must be on to something.

[serolog2]

@flattony no that is because the table surface is usually square and not triangle.This approach violates the basic rule of engineering - KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid

[vaporgenie]

Just use a 3-legged table if its that important.

Who wants to spend $500 on a table. Thats probably what its going to cost for the hydraulic thingies.

[klenock8]

failures, use three legs

[platinum10000]

why 3 legs

[bignewgame]

Lol, 3 table legs? Nice invention though.

[KillieMonkees]

lol, its a revolution, i completely agree with

urantivirus.

[urantivirus]

lol

I guess the inventor of this never seen legs with screw on feet that can be adjusted.

[axelbeast]

dam it!!!

[rocketman468]

if a table have 3 legs it is imposseble for the table to be unstable

[kylerobidoux]

what if theres a slope?

[rocketman468]

you dont have tables on a slope because then they must have chairs like that too

[unbelievabubble]

ah..Norway..

Sorry about that

[unbelievabubble]

All the negative comments coming through are unreal..firstly what warrants your outwardly negative criticism in the first place? what have you achieved or have proof of..other than your retarded comments spammed everywhere.

Great invention, I'd like to see a range of these funiture feet to suit all furiture footing arrangements and fixtures (not just a tubular in-line design)

[kingcol252]

or u could just get a table with 3 legs, duh

[Rotitomato]

Excellent idea!

[XMENDUDE12]

AWESOME! good idea, id buy one but my floor is level, lol

[flattony]

1. I said thousands not 5700 plus years, but I assume there would still have been furniture being made and sold then; Pyramids 3700 BC

2. Can cope with criticism but not stupidity

3. Three legged tables are extremely unstable which is why you generally see ones with the top smaller than the base

4. Polished timber floors are not consistent and either are most table bases, so throw all the money you like at it and you won't solve the problem

[3DPeter]

i never new that there already was a furniture industry way before the pyramides?

Dude, you can't stand negative comments huh?

And there's nothing to explain about 3 legged

because the 3 legs ALWAYS touch ground witch causes no wobling at at al.

And if the ground was uneven like that, i would trow a few bucks at it to straighten it out, because i wouldn't take the risk that people would fall and break something, so

your invention is not the solution to create a safe place to step arround.

[3DPeter]

what a joke! just buy tables with 3 legs

and those wobling problems are over.

[flattony]

Thanks 3DPeter,

You are the guy the furniture industry has been waiting thousands of years for; now you have solved the problem, we'll pack up and go home.

I didn't bother explaining the inherent problems with three legged tables as I thought it was so a no brainer.

I have a feeling you are the real life version of the Comic Store Guy from the Simpsons

[Junije1]

"I have a feeling you are the real life version of the Comic Store Guy from the Simpsons"

LOL ROFL LMAO!!!!

[hyperthesis]

it is clever.but how to keep the surface parallel to the horizon

[Youngman055]

this isn't amazing but useful

[ragman2008]

it is interesting for sure

[Youngman055]

...in someway (for clever peoples) this video proove that human did not evoluate but were created and adaptated to the creator's creation....

[blogologist]

Too lazy to use manually adjustable legs?

[cob93ben]

Yup

[flattony]

Yes, way too LAZY

[tetranoob]

Congratulations on your New Inventors success. I remember watching this and thought it was brilliant.