Microsoft Surface
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A coffee table that will change the world.
A Surface computer is able to recognize physical objects from a paintbrush to a cell phone and allows hands-on, direct control of content such as photos, music and maps. Surface turns an ordinary tabletop into a dynamic surface that provides interaction with all forms of digital content through natural gestures, touch and physical objects.
The new product is aimed directly at hotels, retail establishments, restaurants and public entertainment venues and should be commercially available towards the end of the year.
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Fantastic! Congratulations.
But to do the herb tea http://idealist.blinkr.net/infuserdecocter-for-herb-teas/
I sincerely doubt this will “change the world.”
…or anything else for that matter.
I have also seen a variety of far more advanced systems like this one that do more.
I guess that’s Microsoft’s style though; never first, but always second (with less functionality).
I think this has a lot of potential and I do think this will change a lot. we will see whos wright….
Brilliant!!! the coolest thing ever!
It would change my world since I work with graphic design. this is as close as you get to electronic drawing paper
Screw those places, it’d be prettty nice in my room!….Although it’s microsoft, so it’s prob gonna crash randomly…
and how will it connect? Blue tooth? You can’t randomly access a device by putting a phone under it.
I don’t want a blue screen while I’m having a coffe!
or messages like: “you don’t have the drivers to order another drink”…
or: “error 221sB3 on your soup, you must restart the wine”.
:)
why have a fabulous touchscreen (I’d love to have one of those) on a coffeetable?
Coffeetables are amongst the most useless pieces of furniture, and I just don’t get why that’s chosen to sport a high tech computer.
FUCK MICROSOFT
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The critical question is how much will it cost to own? 10K? 50k?
WOW!!!
It’s a future for casual games
Is it hi def? And is it cheap? Odds are no and no…if it’s made by ms.
That’s one expensive coffee table book..