The Table That Eats Itself

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November 28, 2006 • 7:45 am PST
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This may be one of the grossest things we've ever seen. It's a table, but you put your letfovers into a cone in the middle, and it gets composted, and then the compost falls down on to the plants you always keep below your table. Not enough? You can watch the composting happening on an LCD screen in your tabletop. It must be great to watch worms going through mouldy food while you're eating. It must smell great, too.

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