I love these drinkUP coasters which look like giant versions of classic arcade buttons. They look just like those concave Happ buttons you’d find on your favorite arcade machines.

They come packaged in sets of four coasters, and are available in either a four-color pack, or with buttons for 1 through 4-player modes. Why not buy a set of each? You can order them over at Surface Tension, where they sell for £9.99 a set, or £17.99 for both sets including UK shipping, and £12.99 (~$20 USD) a set, or £21.99 (~$35 USD) for both including shipping outside of the UK.

It was an indoor roller coaster in the dark with “twists, turns, and sudden drops,” but only for a couple of feet and nothing that kids couldn’t handle. Although I admit that yes, I did scream my head off and walked away with wobbly knees.

So for those who prefer to go at their own speed and avoid the loops and hoops, there’s the Crouching Tiger and Turtle.

The name is obviously a play on the title of the movie, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. They changed just the right words, I think, because there’s no hidden dragons on this “coaster”, because instead of riding along to crazy speeds and going for the ride of your life, you can instead choose to walk the path of the coaster.

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The walkable roller coaster was brought to life by sculptors Ulrich Genth and Heike Mutter. It’s located in Duisburg, Germany, and is made from steel and zinc. A ticket to walk this one-of-a-kind creation costs 1.7 Euros (or about $2.30), but it’s the plane ticket to Duisburg that’s going to burn a hole in your pocket. But if you happen to be going there for the holidays, then make sure to drop by and give it a whirl run.

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Created by CbSew, each set of four coasters comes with a yellow “Y”, blue “X”, red “B” and green “A” button to keep your coffee table from getting ruined by all those cans of Mountain Dew, Red Bull and Bawls.  The Xbox Guide button is nowhere to be found, though. I guess a set of five coasters would be kinda weird anyway.

Each coaster is made using full color matte images transferred onto a micro-weave polyester surface, backed by durable black non-skid rubber. You can grab a set for just $10 (USD) over at CbSew’s Etsy shop. PlayStation fans, there’s no word on when you’ll be able to get a version with a square, circle, triangle and X.

These coasters will match perfectly with your number lamp and your equation bookshelf, so long as all you care about is, uh, math.

The math coasters, which are available in a variety of classy colors (as pictured above), are sold in sets of five for $22. Numbers are, unfortunately, not included. It’s Etsy, though… if you search long enough, you’ll probably find something to complement your coaster set.

And look! A bonus amateur beer ad.

The first set of beaded coasters turned up on Flickr, and it was such an awesome project that it spawned the second set in imitation. Killer game crafts are always better in pairs.

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Created by the designers over at Meninos, the set includes the familiar icons for various web syndication formats like RSS & XML. Each set includes a whopping 16 coasters, so you can give one to every guest at your next party. Or maybe one for each of your blog subscribers.

Each coaster is handmade from MDF plywood and wrapped with a custom cut vinyl decal. They’re then backed with an anti-slip rubber backing and coated with a varnish to protect the finish.

You can grab a set of the RSS coasters over at the Meninos store for $60 (USD).

Modeled after the truly retro 5-1/4″ floppy disk, these soft coasters are handmade from colorful felt, and just like their real-life cousins, are guaranteed not to store any of your data reliably. But they should keep your coffee table free of stains.

San Jose crafter TheGeekery handsews these coaster floppies from EcoSpun felt, which ironically happens to be recycled from the plastic bottles that your drink probably just came out of.

Each set sells for $28 (USD) and comes with four brightly colored floppies, packed in one of those old school floppy disk cases that used to clutter my closets back in the day. And if you prefer to go with classic black floppies, you can even specify your own custom colors.

So who really needs flash drives, hard disks and optical storage? I proclaim ‘let’s bring floppies back!’ Show your pro-floppy support by picking up a set over at TheGeekery’s Etsy shop.

Made from Perler beads, each square coaster measures 3.5″ x 3.5″. Aside from the world’s most famous plumbers, the set also features a Cheep-Cheep and a Bob-omb. You can get them at lostmitten’s Etsy page for $12. She’s also selling Earthbound coasters for all of you PSI-loving gamers out there.

Created by the guys over at Brazil’s Meninos design (the same guys who make these awesome hard drives), these icon coasters are a great gift for any iPhone addict. All your favorite applications are there, from Maps to Calculator, from iPod to Settings. Ah, Settings.

Each coaster measures 85mm square (about 3.34″) and is made from sturdy MDF plywood, then wrapped with a premium vinyl decal and durable varnish to protect the design. A thin rubber layer on the bottom keeps the coasters from slipping around.

Sets of 16 coasters retail for $60 USD over at the Meninos online shop. Personally, I’m looking forward to when they open up the Coaster App Store.

Each coaster is made up of 110 individual 1cm square “pixels” which are perfed in a way that lets you selectively remove blocks from each square. Through what sort of amounts to “pixel sculpting”, you can create your own personalized designs.

They come in a stack of 50 coasters, which start out conjoined into a 500cm (almost 200″) long chain which can be broken apart into individual pieces. Each square has a random arrangement of color shades, so each coaster is just a little different from the next one.

They’re made from a resilient paper fiber that should hold up to the condensation you might get on the bottom of your cup, or the occasional spill. In addition to the blue palette (which I prefer), there’s also a hot pink version if you’re looking for something a bit more girly.

At this point Pixel Coasters are only available from Taiwanese design retailer 25togo, I’m hoping somebody eventually imports these to the States. A pack of 50 coasters sells for 260 Taiwan Dollars, or just about $8 bucks.

That’s just what these coasters do. Simply set one under your glass, and when your drink is nearly empty, it’ll get to blinking, alerting the bartender that it’s time for another shot.

The geeks over at Sentilla created these LED loaded electronic coasters that can automatically judge when there’s a drink on top of them, or if your glass is nearly out. Each one features an embedded mini-computer, running a custom Java application which handles all the smarts.

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According to the guys who built them, the coasters can even communicate wirelessly with one another, so they even could be used for interactive tabletop games.

About the only thing they won’t do is tell you whether your glass is half empty or half full. You’ll have to figure that out for yourself.

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The idea is that if something were to happen on the launchpad, endangered flight crew could hop into the roller coaster which would rapidly drop towards the ground, then away from the location of the rocket. The proposed