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Expanding Aluminum Picnic Table Is the Optimus Prime of Summer

Kif Leswing

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Inspired by awkward picnics where a poor sap stands because there aren’t enough seats around the table, the Expandable Portable Table’s aluminum construction allows it to pull off an nifty eponymous trick: it can almost double its length to accomodate up either four or six guests, so everybody can have a place (if everybody is six people).

Its aluminum construction also adds two major features: no splinters, because rotting wood tabletops are the worst. And when the picnic is over and the table is sticky with ketchup and mustard, you can simply hose down the surfaces. Then it’s pretty easy to carry home, because it packs flat. And this means you can actually start inviting people to your picnics, because a picnic for one is pretty sad. [Hammacher Schlemmer]

https://gizmodo.com/theres-absolutely-no-shame-in-wearing-pants-with-a-buil-5898371

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