The Sunlight Table

By Ryan Block

There's just no substitute for a bright room with huge windows—but as far as simulacra and substitutes go, count us in on the Sunlight Table. Developed by the Helen Hamlyn Research Center for Inclusive Design, the surface is freckled with a grid of optical fiber strands which collect sunlight from that mysterious and impenetrable world otherwise known as the "outside." It could stand to be a little less dreary, though, if they weren't straight up about it being designed with the depressing intention of "call center" use where support jockeys work long, tedious hours in offices with dim sunlight intake.

[Via WMMNA]

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