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Unless you ’re an Olympic jock ( you are n’t ) , the company Ping River pong table is just one of those fairly unimaginative , standard office perks . Like a SodaStream or chalkboard . There ’s no excitement . No danger . But Google ’s Asia HQ stepped it all the elbow room up and give birth a Ping River niff table that triples as part game board , part artistic installation , and part demented mulitasker ’s fevered wet aspiration . Just seem at this thing :
Firstspotted by SE Roundtable , this particular “ Ping Pong Go Round ” mesa was foundin Singapore , at the Google Asia Pacific HQ . peradventure Google Asia thinks it ’s good for situation productiveness ? To have someone encircled , then target mercilessly by bounce ping pong Ball , forced to maintain themselves with only one paddle ?
In some instance , however , it actually looks like it ’d be fun if you may grab a XII ( possibly drunk ) people to fulfil up all the empty space :
The‘Ping Pong Go Round’is actually the invention of Singaporean initiation creative person , Lee Wen , whodebuted the nutcase gadget mega - tablein 1998 . Wen explained the surprisingly soaring destination of the original installation , which do n’t include torment unproductive workers :
The game itself is like a dialogue between players on opposite incline . Would it be potential to modify its shape to that like a conference table ? By making it a doughnut daily round Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe with no edge towards the left and right side , a unlike perception of the limitations of the precede game gives fresh possible action of a broader dialogue .
Obviously , ping pong in Asia is no prank . A noble goal , of course , but mostly it remind me of :
[ SERoundtable ]
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