Design porn

Check out this truly amazing radially expanding table from DB Fletcher Designs. It would certainly make Thanksgiving easier.

And a cool design from iBar that's a peek at what's coming to bars, restaurants, and kiosks all around the world.

An older and more comprehensive video comes from Microsoft.  Multi-touch technology has a 25-year history, and was made available to consumers first by Apple with the latest trackpads and iPhones. But Microsoft's big-screen version using object recognition technology is killer, albeit expensive.  It's being used by the military, in some AT&T stores, on MSNBC during the elections, on CSI: Miami, and is just beginning to take off in hotels, restaurants, casinos, and retail stores.

Lastly, this incredible video of a Volkswagen production company in Dresden, courtesy of my pal Dan Pallotta.   A look at not only the future of auto design and technology, but its most innovative present.  Why don't we have these kinds of factories in the U.S.?