Surface Tension Arcade Tables

If you liked the Nintendo controller table, you probably love the Surface Tension Arcade Tables too. You have 3 types where you can choose from dual,  double 7 and arcade. They cost from $2000- $4000. You can buy them here. Depending on the model you choose, you get diferent especifications, for example in the cheaper one (Dual) you can only play games, while in the most expensive one (Arcane) you can play games, surf the web, listen to music, watch videos, has an output to HDTV and integrate Sonos.

List of Games:

The Arcane and Double 7 comes with these games but you can add more retro games if you want to. 

Taito Legends
Battle Shark, Bubble Bobble, Colony 7, Continental Circus, Electric Yo-Yo, Elevator Action, Exzisus, Gladiator, Great Swordsman, Jungle Hunt, Ninja Kids, The New Zealand Story, Operation Thunderbolt, Operation Wolf, Phoenix, Plotting, Plump Pop, Rainbow Islands, Rastan, Return of the Invaders, Space Gun, Space Invaders, Space Invaders part 2, Super Qix, Thunderfox, Tokio, Tube It, Volfied, Zoo Keeper.

Taito Legends 2
Alpine Ski, Arabian Magic, Bonze Adventure, Cameltry, Chack'n Pop, Cleopatra Fortune, Crazy Balloon, Don Doko Don, Dungeon Magic, Elevator, Action Returns, The Fairyland Story, Football Champ, Front Line, Gekirindan, Grid Seeker: Project Storm Hammer, Growl, Gun Frontier, Insector X, KiKi KaiKai, Kuri Kinton, Legend of Kage, Liquid Kids, Lunar Rescue, Metal Black (video game), Nastar Warrior, Puchi Carat, Puzzle Bobble, Qix, Raimais, Space Invaders 95, Space Invaders DX, Super Space Invaders 91, Violence Fight, Wild Western, Bubble Symphony, Cadash, Pop'n Pop, RayForce.
Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe
Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat II, Mortal Kombat 3, Gauntlet II, Spy Hunter II, XybotsTM, NARC, APB, Cyberball 2072, Timber, Total Carnage, Pit, Fighter, Wizard of Wor, Xenophobes, Primal Rage, Arch Rivals, Rampage World Tour, Kozmik Krooz’r, Championship Sprint, Hard Drivin’, Wacko, Badlands, Hydro Thunder, Off Road Thunder: Mud, Sweat 'N Gears, Race Drivin, San Francisco Rush the Rock: Alcatraz Edition, San Francisco Rush 2049, S.T.U.N. Runner, Super Off Road.
Atari Anniversary Edition
Asteroids, Asteroids Deluxe, Battlezone, Black Widow, Centipede, Crystal Castles, Gravitar, Millipede, Missile Command, Pong, Super Breakout, Tempest, Warlords.

Arcane

Double 7

Dual

The Dual table comes with these games:

Ms Pac-Man, Galaga, Frogger, Donkey Kong, Donkey Junior, Donkey Kong 3, Galaxian, Dig Dug, Crush Roller, Mr. Do, Space Invaders, Pac Man, Galaga 3, Gyruss, Tank Battalion, 1942, Lady Bug, Burger Time, Mappy, Centipede, Millipede, JR Pacman, Pengo, Phoenix, Time Pilot, Super Cobra, Hustler, Space Panic, Super Breakout, New Rally X, Arkanoid, Qix, Juno First, Xevious, Mr. Do's Castle, Moon Cresta, Pinball Action, Scramble, Super Pacman, Bomb Jack, Shao-Lin's Road, King & Balloon, 1943, Van-Van Car, Pacman Plus, Dig Dug 2, Amidar, Zaxxon, Pooyan, Pleiads, Gun Smoke, The End, 1943 Kai, Congo Bongo, Jumping Jack, Ms Pac-Man (fast mode), Pac-Man (fast mode), Galaga (fast fire mode), Jr Pac-Man (fast mode), Pac-Man Plus (fast mode).

Geek bathroom

For a house to be good decorated, it muss be geekly decorated, even in the bathroom. And a bathroom would not be geeky enough without a good, geeky and fun shower curtain. You have probably seen before the shower curtain of "The Big Bang Theory", which you can buy here for 30$.

I must say though my favorite so far is this one:

Via Tumbler

This is, without doubt, my next shower curtain. You can use this design, to create your own curtain here. Actually there are so many different possibilities, cause you can use your own designs, but I would have never imagined for a better shower curtain than this one. It is just makes my dream of the perfect geek house closer. 

Geek Furniture: Totoro Bed

As a geek, you have probably heard before of Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki, known as the creators of master pieces such as Princess Monoke, Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro. In China Doll's House in ebay you can buy this awesome Totoro Fouton, that can be used as sleeping bag too. You can purchase both the single and double bed. The tail is detachable and you can use it as a pillow. It costs around 280$ including shipping costs. But you can find it cheaper if you look at ebay and find some bidding's offer.


In the same shop you can find Doraemon and Hello Kitty beds too, but I still think Totoro is the cutest specially cause he is from Studio Ghibli.

Geek Furniture: Donkey Kong Shelves

Some weeks before I posted about the Space Invader Sofa, well looking at more of Igor Chak's designs I saw this awesome Donkey Kong shelves.

You probably recognize the screenshot and the shelves. But for those who don't here is a more bigger picture of the original inspiration:

As you can see it is pretty accurate with the design, it even has the angles of the shelves in pixels, which I think it is so cool. 


The designer, referring to these shelves, says in his official blog:

"The wall is made out of individual sections; each section is made out of durable but light carbon fiber, anodized aluminum pixels that are joined with strong stainless steel rods and toughened glass tops. The special mounts themselves are made out of steel and can support up to 60lbs"
The thing is, that this shelves are not really for sale is just a design, so we are left only with the dream to have these unique piece of furniture at home. However, creative geeks are all over the globe, and they brought us these awesome and real shelves:

Via Twitter (user @laurajsharples)

If you are looking for an easy thing you just can decorate your shelves with duct tape or paint it, get hold on some ladders and barrels, a mario or donkey plush and you got yourself a new geeky furniture.

For a more real look, via alcoholandnightswimming you can find how he did this awesome 20 degrees shelves:

More geek furniture: Rubik's drawers

Carrying on with my future dream house, I saw my future drawers for my bedroom. The Rubik's drawers. Made by a loving father for their kids, this awesome piece of furniture was created. 

It does not only look as a Rubik but it turns, you can change the position of the magnets and each drawer unlocks in a different position. The genius of this creation is instructable-user makendo and you can see how to make it here. It said that it costed up to 200$ all together to build it. Which I personally think is worth it, but you would have to think about all the hours spent too. Maybe you could build one that does not turn, I have seen comments of people that have done it and the result is good too.

Behold, the Rubik drawer in action:

Space Invaders Sofa

As I commented before, my dream is to have an entire house made of geek furniture or decorated with geek motives. We started by the living room and we will keep on going.  The last time I commented on the functional Nintendo controller table and what would go better than a Space Invader Sofa. 

A geek must have. Here you can see other pic, where it shows it can store things too.

The designer of this outlandish sofa is Igor Chak, and there is an option to buy it for 5000$ in his web.

Geek Furniture: Functional Nintendo Controller table

As a true geek, I like everything of my life to be customized. One of the things in my list of things to do before I die is have all of my house with geek furniture. There are some quite cool geek tables for example, but I think the winning price goes to the functional Nintendo Controller table. Cause it is already cool to have a table with the shape of a NES controller, but being able to play with it: just genius. In this one for example it even has place for storage and some screenshots made of perler beads to decorate. You can see here more photos of this model made by a geek name "jocke" which says that the table cost about $200 in materials and 70-100 man-hours.Which I find totally worth it for this result.
Here you can find some the instructables by thisissafety where he explains how to DIY this awesome table.
For the ones that would not like to do the table on their own, there is an etsy shop called the bohemianworkbench where you can buy this table without the storage box for 3,500$ the functional one and for 2,300$ the non-functional.