the future of the coffee tables [IMPRESSIVE]
 

I think it has been posted but here are bunch of videos about the subject
all of them pretty impressive :)

overall review
http://link.brightcove.com/services/...ctid=933742930


for the gamers :)
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/05/wa...bletop-screen/


the offical demos
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/

life demo of Jeff Han
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/65

Designed by Chiropractors to assure total destruction of the upper back and shoulders, assuring them work for a long time to come.

We aren't designed to hunch over the top of a table to look down at it.

Cool. :thumbsup

well that just one of the ways this technology can be used.....

wow. that is so freakin cool.

Holy crap! Its like in the movies! Very very impressive!

that is amazing

what price do you think those will run for

I think it's stupid and has little practical use.

this is really really amazing! imagine having one at home!

i think the microsoft one will be on the market by the end of the year, for a price from $5k to $10k

Firstly they will target the hotels, casinos and that kind of commercial places

that's badass.

yup :)
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QFT :thumbsup

Useless gadget (at least as it is)

thats just the start

this technology can change the way we use computers A LOT

were you born without a brain or did you lose it somewhere? :winkwink:

Awesome.

awesome but i've seen this last summer :)

Thats way too cool for a coffee table!

where?
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So where am I supposed to eat my dinner now? :(

it can also be good for porn :)))

Reminds me of Minority Report.

Minority Report

haha the game table is fU$cking funny..
it is a lot easyer to use the mouse to move ...

Yea, I have seen it, cool stuff.

damn, that's some cool shit :thumbsup

My Dad was telling me about this the other night - good to know he's not going senile :)

My jaw dropped!

just imagine the math needed to do the stuff that you see....especially in the last movie realtime animation based on control points created through touch
maps AND pressure maps.....or the 3D pan/tilt of the nasa maps they show.
that's fucking awesome......he'll make even a LOT more bucks soon when google buys his company.....and mark my words they will.

I'm sold I want one.....anyone has an affiliiate link I'll buy through your link ;-)

really nice but isn't it a bit too much?? what will be next, the computer that does what you are thinking? - which is my dream by the way, like the mind thinks faster than i can type.....

why not man?
i dont think thats too much
Its just progress......

and i think that the nowadays interfaces are pretty much on pre-historic level ......


btw there are already projects on controling stuff with your mind
i even saw a demo, a guy was moving a box in video game with his mind, he head just some things like headphones sticked on his head
So they already have that, its just on pretty basic level still

wow, that's cool!

Looks like an old table Pac Man!

wow :)
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That's just cool :thumbsup

i think many will get addicted to this!!!!

you know the apple iphone has a multi touch display

imagine having one of those attached to your desk tilted up. P.I.M.P.

only two points at a time

If this was bar height or computer desk height, instead of coffee table, this would kick ass! When that make it like that, I want one!

wow pretty cool

I would never use it as my general coffee table... I have too many drunk friends with too many bottles in their hands :)

good point :)

im pretty sure they will build that in every possible shape and way :)

Welc0me to yesterday.

Pretty cool, but should they not be looking at other things to design?