Katazukue: the tidy table

Maverick designer Crispin Jones, he of the Stress Watch and Go Drive keycase fame (in case you forgot,
the former changes clock speed depending on stress levels while the latter only reveals your key if you're suitably stoked about the upcoming jaunt), is back again with another hi-tech product designed to make life more, not less,
difficult. This time around he's hit us off with the Katazukue, originally commissioned for the BankArtLife exhibition in Yokohama, a modernist take on the classic conference table which uses dual conveyor belts to randomly and periodically sweep all your possessions onto the floor. In typical high-art style, the table is supposed to serve as a metaphor for technology in general, wherein our addiction to silicon simultaneously improves and takes something away from our lives. We were lucky enough to take the Katazukue for a test drive recently, and after losing a laptop
(shoulda sprung for the Toughbook), a Treo, several wine glasses, and countless Hummel figurines, we've decided to stick with the plywood board mounted on our old college text books that has served us so well for all these years.