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ROSIE Coffee Table is Apple Surface

Apple may not have responded to Microsoft with a surface clone, but another company is stepping up to the plate for them. Home A/V company Savant has announced their new ROSIE coffee table, a 40-inch touchscreen Apple computer in a form reminiscent of Microsoft's Surface.

While we have no specifics on hardware, the ROSIE claims to have "integration and interaction" with iTunes content. And it will also perform functions like downloading content from digital cameras, and supporting business card readers. And...there's not much more there.

Yes, it all sounds a bit fishy at the moment. So for now, we see the product as a glorified box around some Apple product featuring a fancy display and third-party OS. Hopefully we'll get to the bottom of this at CEDIA. And hopefully it's actually a super cool device that makes our lives perfect and beautiful and unicorns and flowers and free porn. [cepro]

10:00 AM on Wed Sep 5 2007
By Mark Wilson
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lpxxfaintxx at 10:10 AM on 09/05/07
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Microsoft > ROSIE.
vshank at 10:12 AM on 09/05/07
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Hunching over these coffee table style workstations that sit low to the ground will do wonders for my back.

put one in a drafting table, and i'll be in line.
jibbly at 10:17 AM on 09/05/07
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Can you please never use ads by ricoh again? It's possibly more annoying than popups.
Necromatik at 10:19 AM on 09/05/07
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There is a picture of Phil Collins on the table, that means business for sure.
Mayor McRib at 10:29 AM on 09/05/07
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Where are my coffee and magazines going to go now? I really don't get this Surface and Rosie thing. There is a reason they stopped making tabletop video games after Ms. Pac-Man.
Kaiser-Machead at 10:31 AM on 09/05/07
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Yayyy finally a proper Luxor gaming board!
kahri at 10:32 AM on 09/05/07
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Oooh, being an apple fanboy this thing is awes....nah I prefer the sit-down arcade tables I used to play as a kid in some pizza shop. I see very few uses for these "surfaces". Maybe a design firm lobby, or some swanky photo studio.
PS. I HATE RICOH AD DAY.
strangepork at 10:37 AM on 09/05/07
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@jibbly:
@kahri:

Firefox + Adblock = No Ricoh Ad Day...today, tomorrow, or ever again.

Download and enjoy.
OMG! Ponies! at 10:40 AM on 09/05/07
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Cupertino - start up your copiers....
Geisrud at 10:41 AM on 09/05/07
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@strangepork: I'm using that combo, and it used to block Ricoh Day. Today I'm back to getting color fade-ins...I'm looking into it though.
sumocat at 10:50 AM on 09/05/07
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Unless it features multi-touch input, it's probably just a big touchscreen display attached to a Mac. Nothing special about that.
orinos73 at 10:57 AM on 09/05/07
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Can we combine this idea with the flexible LCD displays and make a desk pad/calendar that syncs with our Outlook or whatever calendar app we are using? That is a practical use right? I wanted to buy a desk pad calendar yesterday, but it seemed so last century.
cmarsh at 10:59 AM on 09/05/07
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OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GODOHMYGODOHMYGOD!!!!

FIRST the picture is in black and white! THEN it turns to color!!!

THIS IS FUCKING UP MY ENTIRE DAY!!!

OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD!!!!
dukenukemforever at 11:12 AM on 09/05/07
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I wish they would come out with something like surface or this that could charge while it is interacting.
strangepork at 11:14 AM on 09/05/07
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@Geisrud:

Interesting...I'm not getting it today. Figured it was the software, but maybe it has something to do with having parts of the page cached? Who knows!
lafond66 at 11:28 AM on 09/05/07
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@Geisrud: The color fade ins are because the images are replaced with flash video that fades in. No way to block that.

Back on topic, this is an interesting attempt, but the Microsoft Surface just has this by a long shot. Plus it's got a cooler name, this one reminds me of that fat racist woman who used to be same and popular.
Geisrud at 11:30 AM on 09/05/07
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@cmarsh: I'm not saying it's messing up my day, but I do find it very annoying. I can say without a doubt, that an add or scheme that is annoying isn't going to get me to click on it and generate any revenue.
ekasbury at 11:31 AM on 09/05/07
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@Necromatik: Wow, Phil made it in the 4th comment. Impressive. Only wish I coulda gotten there first.
someToast at 12:25 PM on 09/05/07
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@omg-ponies:

Cupertino - start up your copiers....

Savant Systems -- the maker of the table -- isn't in Cupertino. That should be "Osterville - start up your copiers...".
Kaiser-Machead at 12:39 PM on 09/05/07
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zing!
The Brain at 01:18 PM on 09/05/07
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Anyone can make a computer table. Where's the multitouch?
Sushiwriter at 01:18 PM on 09/05/07
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Why do people insist on putting a fragile screen where my glass of bourbon and/or feet should be?
gundamsdontkillpeople at 09:49 PM on 09/05/07
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Would it be possible to reduce the size of these computers? What's next? A linux oven?
mr_ithcy at 12:45 AM on 09/06/07
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@sushiwriter:
Why would you rest your feet or bourbon on a table with a fragile screen on top?
jchan28 at 08:23 AM on 09/12/07
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that table sure reminds me of one rosie haha

ROSIE O' DONNELL IT IS