A Case of Bad Karma on Kickstarter

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It’s so cheating!

The idea behind a Zen garden is that combing all of that sand into intricate patterns improves the practitioner’s concentration. It’s not easy to do—and that’s the point. So Simon Hallam’s Zen Table contraptions on Kickstarter, which automatically draw pre-programmed patterns via what appears to be a magnetic ball and some type of CNC mechanism, would probably be considered an abomination in the Zen Buddhism world.

Yet I have to concede that the machines, which come in both small and large sizes, are cool as heck:

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