[Nick] is working on a prototype of a coffee table sand plotter that draws patterns in sand a lot like a zen rock garden. [Nick]’s zen rock garden uses a magnet to draw a ball bearing across the sand ...

Coffee tables are rarely very interactive, and unless there’s something very interesting sitting on top of them, aren’t usually the focal point of a room either. This would all change if you owned a ...

Simon Sörensen, a young engineer in Sweden, has made something that would delight Bill and Ted and Confucious equally: a kinetic art table that erases whatever pattern it itself creates. The table, ...

The best Kickstarter projects are the ones that have videos of the product doing what it claims to do, and are already well-funded when you discover them. Like this amazing Zen Table which creates ...

With no water, Japanese rock gardens - also known as "dry landscape" or "Zen" gardens - feature an area of gravel or sand that is designed to symbolize the sea, ocean, rivers or lakes. The act of ...

Instructables user MakrToolbox has created a very unique CNC inspired Zen Garden that allows you to draw shapes in the sand for meditation and mindfulness using state-of-the-art technology, in the ...

Remember those little Zen rock gardens they used to sell for desks? So you could take a minute of your busy day to contemplate the void? Thanks to the magic of Kickstarter, you can build your own ...

[Mark]’s sand table wisely has a glass top. Most of us have probably seen a video of a sand drawing table at work, in which a steel ball — magnetically-coupled to a gantry under a layer of sand — ...