Awesome Coasters

Plane Pieces’ drink coasters are a great gift for aviation enthusiasts. They’re made using authentic Pratt & Whitney gears from WWII radial airplane engines. Each one is encased in clear resin, surrounded with a machined aluminum outer ring, and has a protective bumper underneath. Sold individually, or in sets of four.

Show your love for classic Nintendo games with this set of eight chipboard drink coasters made to look like flattened cartridges from the 8-bit gaming system. Includes Zelda, Metroid, ExciteBike, Mario Bros, Donkey Kong, Duck Hunt, and Super Mario 2 and 3 designs.

Celebrate your hometown with Neighborwoods‘ laser-engraved wood coasters. Each one is etched with local neighborhood maps for cities around the world, from Atlanta to Washington, D.C., Montreal to Paris. Sold in sets of two or four. Also available on Amazon.

Celebrate your love for classic arcade games with this set of fun drink coasters. Each plastic coaster features a motion puzzle inspired by an 8-bit game, including Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, Q*Bert, and Space Invaders. Sold in a set of four.

We’ve all misunderstood the lyrics of songs from time to time. These amusing coasters from Bright Beam Goods memorialize some classics, from “I’ll never leave your pizza burnin'” to “Rock the cat spa” to our favorite “She was a fax machine, she kept her modem clean.” Sold in themed sets of six cork coasters each.

Fans of classic arcade games will dig VectorEngrave’s slick anodized aluminum coasters which feature engraved images inspired by Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Tetris. Available in three different thicknesses, and sold in a set of four.

Back in the day, we used to use 3.5″ floppy disks as coasters. All too often, our drinks slipped right off, and they were a bit lumpy. These laser-cut wood coasters from OttoAutomation seem like a better idea, and include shrunk-down 5-1/4″ style disks too.

Baum Designs‘ custom faux leather coasters act as a not so subtle reminder to your guests to keep your drinkware from sweating all over your fancy table. The set of six includes a matching base to keep them organized when not in use. Also available in slate.

These substantial coasters are one small step for a drink, one giant step for drink-kind. Each concrete coaster is hand textured and pigmented, creating a unique lunar surface for your cocktail to land on. Sold as a set of four.

HillsideComposites‘ carbon fiber coasters are the perfect gift for gearheads and petrolheads. Each one features an engraved, ink-filled tachometer graphic, and is made from a 1/4″ thick hunk of real carbon fiber, backed with soft cork to protect tabletops.

For those of us incapable of keeping house plants alive, there’s always the trusty cactus. But if you can’t even handle that, there’s always these coasters that look like a cactus, but require no care and feeding. Includes 6 cork coasters, a slotted lid, and a terracotta pot.

You may not really care about getting stains on your coffee table, but you still might want to grab a set of coasters so you don’t get yelled at anyhow. These should do the trick, plus they’re cut from the same Horween leather used to make real NFL footballs.

It’s human nature to want to pop the little bubbles in bubble wrap. So there’s nothing quite as sadistic as what maker Peter Brown did – by submerging bubble wrap in crystal clear resin and making frustrating coasters that can never be popped. Oh the humanity!

As an adjunct to their fascinating History of Time print, Calm the Ham has created a limited run of just 200 sets of these laser-cut rosewood coasters. Each one is engraved with a detailed image of the inner workings of a timepiece.

Milk Run Co.’s unique drink coasters are made from recycled plywood playing fields from old, defunct pinball machines. They come from a variety of machines circa 1955 to 1979. Sold in sets of four with a metal stand.

Look inside a human brain without the inconvenience of being crammed into an MRI chamber. This set of 10 glass coasters are each printed with a brain slice, which form a completed image when stacked in the proper sequence.

Perfect for graphic designers, these clever acrylic coasters feature cyan, magenta, yellow and black halftone separations of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, only producing the full color image when stacked together.

Set your drinks down on these beautiful and miniscule replicas of classic rugs, carpets and textiles from various cultures. Available in packs of four. You can also get the designs on mousepads.

Artists Jason and Katie Lister of Apocalypse Fabrication create these plasma-cut stainless steel coasters featuring the iconic locos of your favorite superheroes. Soft felt adds depth and heroically protects your tabletop.

Fireclay Tile wants to turn used glass from old TVs and computer monitors and convert them into coasters, but they need your help to buy the molds. The glass they will use is from a recycling plant and is proven to be lead-free.

Waku Design’s Coaster Pads are acrylic coasters that not only look like stationery, you can also write on them using a marker. They’re available in yellow pad and loose leaf designs and come with a black marker.

Rep your side of States with the Coast to Coaster set by Poketo. Available in East Coast, West Coast and Gulf Coast sets, the coasters measure 4″-4.5″ and are made of Baltic beech wood. You know what the Midwest is? Young and coastless.

Graphic artist Matt W. Moore created this series of diagonally-illustrated ceramic tiles which can be rearranged into numerous configurations, allowing for a wide variety of eyeball-stimulating Op-Art patterns.