<![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> The Technology for the iPhone was the multi-touch screen created by J.Han. That uses Frustrated Total Internal Reflection for the multi-touch capability, (To be perfectly honest, I don't see why anyone needs multi-touch on a phone).
The first public display of the Microsoft Surface (was Microsoft Table) was in the film 'The Island'.
Both technologies is becoming the future of Human-computing interface, and it could well be the age old fight between apple and microsoft, time will tell.
Also, a new technology like these ones have appeared called 'Smart-Skin'. That also has the potential to do a lot of great things - but they also said that about nuclear power.

Rydou

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> You know whats sucky about being THIS late on the comments??? Barely Any One Reads them all...Well I Give it a decade or two to master the technology and "Cool" Factor...Thats about how long its gonna take to save up that Much any way...

kevinandre91

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Here's some guys in France doing something similar. Maybe the same school as in the video Gizmodo posted, hard to say.

This idea goes back to the early 80's with Pierre Wellner and his original Digital Desk. Like a lot of amazing tech developments, much of the work was done at Xerox's research labs.

Then there's the MIT Sensetable, MIT Illuminating Clay, a whole bunch of digital desk concepts, and finally a buttload of tangible interface projects.

Jeff the Riffer

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> I think is a step in the right direction... MS have done a good job here, and I mean that sincerely.... but... I'm delighted to see all those pc people getting 'excited' about us mac users. Seems all those VIRUSES have got to your heads. Sorry, for the record I think pcs are fantastic. They never crash, they're great at running more than one program at a time, and I love the fact that you never have problems with MISSING DLL files etc. That beige look is great too. A nice noisy bulk of shit in the corner of your room..PLUG AND PRAY... hehe :-)

Enjoy installing your spyware, folks! Don't forget to drop me a line next time you get a little red cross and an unexpected error (maybe in the next day, back up!)...

Millsee

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Amazing, isn't it? pages and pages of "MS fanboy" and "Apple fanboy" rants and nobody asks the truly important questions concerning such technology... Am I comfortable putting my credit card on the table? I don't really see CAT5e running away from this thing... Is it wireless? Is it encrypted? Can I really trust my neighborhood bar to set up a table-by-table billing network and actually secure it... If all my devices are now going to be WiFi to support MS's new table toy, can I trust that my information can't be stolen from them at range? Every idealized future technology I've seen in its early stages has huge gaping security holes, and these tend to nail the casket shut on more technology than consumer demand... Consumers are, let's face it, cattle. If MS tells them they need a new OS or a $10,000 table, they will (eventually) buy it, but if it gets a bunch of peoples' identities stolen or data lost, then it gets shut down by something far more important than mere consumer demand... It gets shut down by its own lack of commercial capability.

That said, I think it's cool and I'd love to have one sitting in my living room, but I'll be paying cash at the bar, Bill, thanks anyway.

enmaku

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> @ bryanmccormick

It was as far as I know first shown many, many years ago at NYU. The demo of the MSFT table is almost verbatim the multi-touch concept video of many, many years ago.

Jeeze Bryan, Jeff Han of NYU debuted his multitouch interface for the first time at TED in February 2006. All you had to do was click any one of a number of links posted above.

sdsdv10

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> lol at the Apple Cult

quite sad actually.....

Twenty5

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> I just rode in a NYC taxi with one of the newfangled Internet screens in them, and I have to say it was kind of cool. It shows a map of where you are (in real-time, obviously) updated every block or so, the running fare (including random fees like the night surcharge), and links to news and stocks (not real-time, must be on a download delayed Anyway, kind of cool but really needs free internet to make it worthwhile.
Anyway, I was just thinking that this would be great for bars in NYC. You wouldn't need the whole bar, just a little strip that you can put your card on for a sec and then pull it away. The bartender could then put your charges into their computer and show a running tally on the screen/strip... or maybe just the number of drinks or something? Seems handy to me, especially considering how rarely I remember to take my card from the bar when I start a tab.

/random comment.

moosiest

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Sorry to bust a nut on your parade but MS has been working on this since 2000, not MIT...

Whammo

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/05/microsoft_sur...

here's a link for another video of the same table.

dubignon

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> It is always sad to see people do this. Everone must justify their decision of owning either PC or Mac by sticking up for everything on "Their side" and bashing everything on the other side.

My side is better because of...

The iPhone was interesting, I will not buy one, but it had some interesting things to it.

The Surface is interesting, not buying one of these either, but I still find it having potential for the future.

Enough making yourself feel better because of your past gadget purchases and just accept that your enemies are who you make them and finding what works on both sides can only benefit everyone.

Hand_O_Death

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Customer: My table's not working.
Tech Support: What's it doing?
Customer: One of the legs came off.
Tech Support: How did it come off.
Customer: My Xbox 360 was too heavy and the leg cracked.
Tech Support: Not our problem, call Xbox 360 customer support .... Can we interest you in our 2 Year extended table leg plan?

Nuff said ...

sum0belly

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Wonder when the first virus will hit it. Microsoft cracks me up.

sum0belly

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Most of the commenters here who are flaying the dead horse of "innovation" or "[brand x] was first" are entirely missing the point: This is now an actual product (exclusive to MS partners right now) which has a chance of being in your living room in the near future and at a reasonable cost.

Yes, there are many others working on this technology right now, but they haven't got anything out the door yet except demo video on YouTube. Big deal!

If you want to see another yet another company's "version" of what Microsoft has announced, then maybe you should look at this one from Northrop Grumman:

http://www.ms.northropgrumman.com/touchtable/

On the right-hand side of that page you will find a fact sheet and a video of it in action.

To belabor the point -- who do you think will sell this technology to you at a reasonable cost right now ? I seriously doubt that anyone would give the answer as being Northrop Grumman. If so, then you're living on planet Bizarro.

The tech in the Surface computer is NOT the same as the touch technology in the iPhone. The underlying software may treat multi-touch input in the same way, but the way it gets there in the first place is different.

Personally, I don't care who gets this stuff out to the consumer first -- as long as it works.

Oh, and the Vista computer used in the Surface computer video in which everyone is complaining about "lag" is running a P4 -- not a multi-core CPU. This is what is commonly called a "non-issue" -- which almost always is brought up by the haters in a given camp when the other side flummoxes them with something good.

Cripe sake -- grow up already!

If this thing was under $5000, then it would be in my living room ASAP.

uraphake

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> This technology has been around for 25 years. I assume it's predicated on Frustrated Total Internal Reflection (FTIR). This tracks multiple points and gestures simultaneously whereas most touch screens only track one point at a time and zero gestures. MS isn't the stud nor is Jeff Han - though they've both done a lot to push multi touch to the next step. For those that think it's a touch screen, you're missing the point - please see the MERL diamond touch solution. I agree with most of you - MS may commercialize it, but they're going to create apps that put up barriers to entry into our living room.

viable

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]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> It's only available to retailers for a reason..because you won't be paying $10K for it in the year 2009.

So stop ignoring the facts it's not made for the average consumer, just so you all can make bullshit trolls.

Karttikeya

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> I have to admit, I am usually a Microsoft hater but this is pretty sweet. This is potentially the first device/product that microsoft has ever produced that has made me excited for the next ten years. The number of features packed into this one display is impressive and as the camera/interface develops and progresses over the next few years I think that we will see a much better consumer product.

koryglenn

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Interesting produt.. when i first saw a shot of it on tv, I thought they were shoving tiles around on a table and the tiles could be stretched or resized. I see now that they have 5 cameras following your movements.

My question boils down to, how accurate will this thing be? Can someone do fine detail cad work on a graphic app down to the pixel level? Would there be a stylus involved?

Also, how do you type letters, is there a virtual keyboard? To be "revolutionary" I would expect it to be completely capable of speech recognition..

MorituriMax

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Doesn't this remind of you of Apple's iPhone picture/video features?

I bet M$ got some people in the Apple shop.

EricBrian

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> It's a cool concept - I'm sure knockoffs are right around the corner. Then the market will take over and an actually usable product will be produced, perhaps by Apple? AHHH HAH! I'm actually a PC user, so PSYCHE!! Seriously, I just wanted to add my post to this long ass thread :^)

banmojo

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> @bana

And people people said that restaurants or bars wouldn't have TVs. I've seen similar, albeit messy and primitive touchscreen things for tasks like ordering tickets or car rentals. Pretty much everyone has used them. This is just a step up. Maybe 5 steps.

Roflgoat

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> This is a lot of potential. Whether MS will make something useful out of it, time will tell.

ww2db.com

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> yes this isnt the most revolutionary concept, but its application and delivery is. THe idea of paying with a credit card, pulling images from a camera etc through this device is great.

As for mac fanboys, i love how they seem to think that Apple has its consumers best interest at heart. "Thats why apple decided to use this tech in the iPhone first, so consumers could experience it now". Are you kidding me? How deluded are you guys? Not only did Apple not develop the iPhone touch technology first, (just patented it), the only thing Apple and MS and other corporations want you to experience is money leaving your wallet. Nuff said.

asTer0id

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> That's a neat trick only I believe I saw it here first:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/65

Not sure if Jeff Han works for Microsoft but I think Microsoft either went into their deep pockets and purchased this company Perceptive Pixel.

trailingedge

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> @Haters

Jeff Han was working with Microsoft. That's his baby.

Roflgoat

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> lots of fun to play with, very innovative. i especially like the fact that you can place peripherals on the table they are automatically recognized very cool,almost futuristic. however i dont know how this will perform in everyday use, restaurants? what about spilling and what not.. but still very cool..bravo microsoft.

gadgetchic

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Seeing more videos of this makes me more hopeful. It's clear Microsoft really wants this to work out. At first I was a little angry that this was just another "demo" that wouldn't make it anywhere, but this is a media tour de force, and a retail b2b product for the end of the year (if that happens).

Not being an XBox user, I only remember products like the Micrsoft Mouse and the Microsoft Natural Keyboard as being great consumer products. I'm not a fan of the Zune, because its not very innovative.

This stuff is pretty good, but I'm concerned its not practical. We'll see I guess. Looking at the credit card demo with tipping and such was actually the most USEFUL thing I saw (although I'm leery about whether it will work). It'd be nice if some restaurant had more than "1" of these... but at $10,000 a pop... I don't see that happening.

I'm dissappointed with Palm. I want more consumer, decently priced, multi-touch stuff. Where is it?

Cleverboy

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Go Blamo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mtopper

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> a lot of talk about lag. but remember, the time saved inputting data (just put the camera or credit card on the table and boom, all necessary info is input) more than covers the slight lag (IMHO).

mtopper

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]>
I can't imagine setting my drink down on my $10G super surface computing coffee table, but I want one anyway.
11:12

Reseach this a little more before you place your judgement; you will find that when you set a drink down on the table bubbles come rolling out of it across the table; its way groovy.
You gotta give MS credit; not only is it interactive surface computing...it can handle food, drinks and kids big and small! This is the table of today...think outside the box boys!
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/

kittykat

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> This is nothing new. Even the stuff Apple has on the iPhone is not new. It all stems from research done by Jeff Han (and maybe someone before him) from NYU. I think Apple is licensing it (or may outright own the rights now) to this technology.

For a much cooler demo of this technology see this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yHB40jeTOw

Blows the MS crap out the window.

jscherer

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> This will never work. I'm a Microsoft fanboy, and pretty much an Apple hater (I got a zune, though that doesn't mean too much)but this will never work through. This will never be in restaurants (except maybe one rare good one) and will have no success at all. All that microsoft did this time was make a cool toy. They do this for 10 years while they should be making something cool like a good operating system that actually works with their products. The only good thing I see in this table is the zune integration (did you see how he put it down, and the wifi in the zune connected them?) Really cool. Otherwise, we have another really expensive piece of crapware.

bana

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Apple Fanboy here . . . it looks nice, but MS is gonna screw it up somehow - just wait! Instead of a cool surface your gonna have a

BLUE TABLE OF DEATH!!!

robethleffel

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Ok here's the scene: You're out to dinner with your parents and you set your backpack on the table. The table sees your digital camera in the bag and suddenly your Mom knows how you spent last weekend...

Blamo

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> This concept is very interesting, I can not believe that people are hating on it. I bet you that all the people whom have posted against this technology wish they had one of these. Just being able to put your camera on top of the table and it suck out the pictures and you can mess with them like they were real pictues across the table! That is amazing!
Not to mention that I would love to order my Goose and Pinapple juice at one of these at a restaurant, cause the waiters always seem to mess up my order!

tristan.dietz

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Nice. Perhaps a future version or a competitor will employ a combination of optics and pressure sensitivity to determine how much is left in a glass or even a fully opaque coffee cup, so it can order you another drink. According to your on-table beverage preferences, of course.

Brian Sexton

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Despite my being a Mac fanboy, I'm going to try to be objective.

The interface is nice, no question. Multi-touch screen is nothing new though, we all know that. The organic interface reminds me of BumpTop. If you took BumpTop and made several major upgrades to it and ran it on a multi-touch screen, you'd just about have MS Surface.

The tech that MS is using isn't anything terribly revolutionary but they have blended it all well and are bringing it to market before anyone else.

Now the down side. It has built in wi-fi and pulls the information out of anything that you set on top of it... Doesn't this frighten anyone else?

You're finishing up dinner with the family at some fairly pricey restaurant in a resort town and you set you credit card on the table. How long do you think it will take someone to figure out how to crack the table and use that built-in wi-fi to steal your credit card information, music off of your kid's zune and "those" pictures that you and your wife took while the kids were downstairs in the hotel pool?

OK, so maybe I'm not being terribly objective. I am trying to be a cautious consumer though.

bgplpshep

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> It's really exciting that a company like Microsoft is investing time and effort into a product like this. Although Apple may or may have not "done this first" (actually, it was probably somewhere in academia that this first popped up), this sort of technology will progress further with more major companies on board in it's development. The "discussion," if you will, between technology developers through their presentation of products is what is going to make this product available for consumers sooner, and regardless of who gets credit, it's better for every one when thing like this are available to the masses.

Also, I've seen this (http://infoviz.pnl.gov/hces/) in action before, and although it's different in the sense it doesn't require physical contact, it would be cool if this sort of technology was created to overlap and be even more like Minority Report.

EventHorizon

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> @zakeen - you went on a microsoft rant yourself, so you shouldnt speak about who fights with who first. There are many people on this forum that come out onto apple posts (such as quikboy) and attack apple products without having any knowledge of them. They are usually within the first row of comments.

VisualVillain83

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]>
Skeeve, please give us some example of commercial products with multi touch displays?

http://www.jazzmutant.com/

R2B2

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> who wnat's a zune now!

wetworker

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> I hate all this Apple v's Microsoft fights. Its more of the apple fanboys that start it and say that apple is far ahead. You see apple attack M$ but never the other way around.

If all apple products disappeared from the world the world would still function very well. Now if every M$ product would disappear I think there would be a few major problems.

By the way, this table rocks, we would all have one. But everyone that calls it crap, hold your word and never buy anything like it in your future.

zakeen

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> hope i am not rehashing earlier posts... too much... didn't have time to read all of them...
but first, i really think this is a nice design that covers a lot of what i *really* do with a computer. i like that it interacts with me in a predictable way (i.e. dragging photos around, resizing them, etc.) and also interacts with objects in its environment (i.e. wifi camera, credit cards, etc.). i do hope this is the direction computers are moving and i can really envision all kinds of ways to use it. i think the concept can be compared to making the leap from using a command line interface to using a graphical interface. i would call it an "interactive interface".

craighyatt

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> I have seen the Jeff Han video before and know that MS/Apple did not invent the technology, however I must say the demo with the camera and credit card is pretty cool!

dalieu

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> bindun:

2001 - Sony: http://www.sonycsl.co.jp/person/rekimoto/datatile/

2006 - NYU: http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/

Snorbalp

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> @ninjagin

I was wondering the same thing. If I dropped my pants and boxers, sat my bare ass cheeks on it, what would happen?

I think someone should finance a "Battle of the Multi-Touch Gooeys" contest and buy me an iPhone, and one of these, and let me give them both my double-bare ass-cheeks test. Whichever one corretcly idenitifies that it is my bare ass cheeks touching AND gives an accurate count of any dingle-berries wins my eternal allegiance.

hypereric

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> old technology, new table.
even balmer said this technology has been around for years when mossberg ask about the patent on iPhone vs their table.
looks good... but when is the last time a microsoft product actually work as described?

chunkysalsa

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> The multi-touch interface was not invented at Apple. It was as far as I know first shown many, many years ago at NYU. The demo of the MSFT table is almost verbatim the multi-touch concept video of many, many years ago. On this one, Apple made it to the patent office faster than anyone else. But they didn't invent it 'Nuff said. 10k for a table? Not a chance.

bryanmccormick

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> What happens when you sit on it?

Nothing, It isnt a touchscreen device. It is a touch sensitive device!!! It is hardened material that will withstand pressure, scratches and spills. Please dont use a hammer though!

sotark

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> What happens when you sit on it?

ninjagin

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> it won't stay 10,000. it uses cameras+projectors right now...

anyone heard of toucchscreen lcds..? really? neaither have I?
give it 4 years and a 40inch touch screen will be less than $500, then all you need is to hook it up to your normal pc.

there's nothing speical hardware wise here, just bad choices price wise.

dj-kenpo

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Zune 2.0?

tamoko

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Really cool? Yes. Nothing new? Correct.

But the real kicker will be that MS will make it so it only works with MS products like the Zune, and in doing so will give a big advantage to all the copycats lining up to make a cheaper version that works with more than just the Zune and camera companies that partner exclusively with MS.

heath

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> I like the recognition of the credit card...maybe using RFID?... Interesting tech concepts.

Regardless of whether your a M$ Drone or an Apple Fanboy, you have to admit the tech is interesting, but I agree it's a solution looking for a problem right now. It will be interesting to see if Microsoft can continue to push the technology and cut the costs to flood the consumer market in the next decade.

We live in interesting times... Now where's my 20 terabyte pocket AI?

tamoko

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> I'm not a fanboy of any kind, but I must say this is really cool. I think MS has something going with this.

homer_s

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> It's nice to see another elegant bit of the future finally arrive. It's no surprise that Bill Buxton is currently at Microsoft as a principal researcher to those who know his work and have seen this and the iPhone. For those of you with a memory as short as digg's this sort of idea has been in the works since the early eighties. (Longer than most of you I'd guess...)

"History"

MS in their eternal and unswerving arrogance, on their site, give a time-line that only goes back to 2001, ignoring the past 25 years of work by others in this area.

(I doubt Stevey J. will be sharing any credit either in his next keynote either...)

Buxton has a well rounded history of Multitouch on his site:

http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html

fixated

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> It seems you are all way too smart for your own good. None of you knows what's going on here, because none of you are the target market of this device.

In the commercial market, Microsoft gets to sell Surface as a WOW device, which despite the individual musings for or against, all seem to agree that Surface is. Similarly to early adopters, Surface will rise and fall in popularity and promise with each company's interpretation of usage.

But in a residential market, this bad boy is made for the 90% of citizens that eschew technology for whatever reason; the people that don't know, don't care or both about computers, but still want some or all of the conveniences that computers can provide. The very same relatives that can burn up a video poker machine but shudder at the thought of burning a CD.

A tactile interface coupled with seamless it-just-works-ness IS the wave of the future. And really, if it just works, who freakin' cares if it's a tracking a microsecond behind my touches?

And for the record, when did Microsoft try to pawn this off as their own idea? And I don't remember hearing the words innovative, exclusive, patent, mine, or any other derogatory notion either.

mwhyde

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> One thing that this product has showed me, are the apple fanboys in their real light.

Let's just say it's not a pretty sight.

bjarnia

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> the thing everyones missing is that microsoft didnt invent this. Its been around for a while. I saw this back in high school. I dont remember its original origin of birth but its a great tool if used correctly.

VisualVillain83

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> wow, cant wait to see the resturant ordering thing out in the real world.. would be great and faster than waiting 30 minutes for your waiter to finally come around and bring you your check

leetgeek

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> pretty useless. Nothing can't be done w/ a mouse, it's just make doing mouse task more exhausting. Those wifi camera is cool, but why can't my xp do the same if software supports.

Type-E

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> I wonder how much Best Buy's Accidental Damage will be.

jakeism

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]>
This would be awesome if you can install boardgames in it as well. Having Monopoly run on it would be awesome, and a bit ironic.

I suggest this thread be locked - there can be no comment as enlightened and entertaining as this.

Dancing Milkcarton

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> I hope the guys over at MIT are trying hard to make apps like flip cup, table football and beirut compatible with this table

discounteggroll

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> The real genius is Jeff Han. Bill's just pretending to be the innovator.

ironchef

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Since all the comedic fanboy comments were taken:

Someone who is niether MS or Apple, but a math guy (of course) at NYU Jeff Hahn:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/65

Also here:
http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/
http://www.perceptivepixel.com/

Bottom line, noone owns multi-touch. MS was able to use existing technology into a nice product. Apple is doing same thing with iPhone. Both cost more than your average phone, table, donkey whatever.

(See kids, thats how companies turn ideas into money, by creating products.Feel free to grab a chocolate milk on the way out.)

pklostguy

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]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> "Where were the crowd-control cops like aec007 and yourself when the naysayers were busy tearing down the iPhone's multi-gestural capabilities because it had already been demonstrated in the Jeff Han video?"

I think I was on vacation that day.

I like the iPhone well enough, but it's a niche product that's entering an already saturated market. Sure it's sexy and sleek, but it's just not going to appeal to the great majority of cell users who primarily just want to be able to make calls. I think it will sell fairly well, but I doubt it will reach even 1/10th of the iPod numbers.

You see what I did there? I critiqued a gadget based upon it's market potential, not specifically because it came from god or satan as they are variously defined in the tech world. I may be completely wrong about my predictions, but so what? I'm not emotionally invested in it, so if I'm wrong then my world won't fall apart.

So someone demonstrated multi-gestural capabilities before the iPhone? Who cares? Is it in a product that I can buy and use? If someone is stealing another's technology, then that's an issue for the courts. There are plenty of lawyers out there who will be willing to take the case. Ultimately, if there's no verdict then it never happened.

Atrahasis

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> This would be awesome if you can install boardgames in it as well. Having Monopoly run on it would be awesome, and a bit ironic.

dylanjin

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Anyone else thinking this might be the product to finally bring the PC into the living room as the COFFEE TABLE?

Besides all the cool touch screen crap, it could do all the media PC stuff too for movies, music etc. Put a shelf under it to recharge cellphones, mp3players etc and you'll simplify my life at least.

I can definitely see folks wiring their whole house to it, lights, alarm, etc. this will be in high end homes very soon I'm sure. For all those folks who dropped $10K on the plasmas originally. Plus there seem to be more of them these days.

Rabbi Dave

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> I'm happy to see a new UI benchmark available for broad acceptance - this will help HCI evolve futher. Running on Vista? I'm guessing Jeff Han's isn't running on windows. So is Mr. Gates offering a software system or a hardware system? Most people can agree that MS software will limit the seemingly endless possabilities of multi-touch. And oh, The dev next to me wants to know where Ctrl+Alt+Delete is?

viable

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> or rather 'geeky'

CHO

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Bill Gates isn't THAT nerdy to not know Tic-Tac-Toe...

CHO

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> and I thought the iphone is going to be expensive

oxymoron2007

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> I'll be directing traffic allright... from my $10K coffee table.

LOL.

aec007

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> It is really so innovative?
Just an expansion of of this schools project?
http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/

This weas featured on digg a while back

http://digg.com/apple/VIDEO_of_the_Multi-Touch_Interaction...
2822 Diggs

kieranmullen

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> I like this, it is not a computer, it is something else more like a universal interface. The restaurant application is brilliant.

Imagine music apps on this thing, how about a drumset, or some synth pads or turntables - wow.

An obvious application would be interactive digital signage.

Bill is lame as ever with his killer apps being finger painting and tic tac toe. Didn't he not watch War Games? You can't win at tic tac toe!

Gary_7vn

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> "OMG a research institute came up with the idea first but didn't market it!!! Holy shit, alert the media!!!

Anyway, the table is cool. Who cares who came up with it..."

Truly amazing.

Where were the crowd-control cops like aec007 and yourself when the naysayers were busy tearing down the iPhone's multi-gestural capabilities because it had already been demonstrated in the Jeff Han video?

Where were you when Apple was "stealing" the technology and it wasn't innovative because it had already been done before?

Now that Micro$oft has done it, it's "Who cares who came up with it, the bottom line is who can bring it to market and make some money off of it?"

Incredible. It really is.

When Apple brings more multi-touch products to mainstream consumers well before 3-5 years from now, I hope to see aec007 in the street directing traffic. Need to borrow my whistle?

Marty_MacFly

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> I think this is a sign of things to come :: Big companies with deep pockets taking existing technology and marketing it as their own. They have the money and marketing power the originators didn't-- and they'll take all the glory (yes, we geeks know M$ didn't come up with the idea, but mainstream doesn't). The trend has been ramping up for some time, and now I think it's in full force.

Here's to hoping Apple 1-ups Microsoft again, and multi-touch is Leopard's big secret. Microsoft targets enterprise, Apple gets it to the mainstream. They did say the iPhone runs OS X...

johnny5k

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]>
Those supporting MS on this, thank you!.

WTF?

I had a suspicion you were Steve Ballmer - I just didn't have proof until now.

Dancing Milkcarton

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> I saw HP demo this concept two years ago at All Things Digital (The WSJ Conference). It had the same basic concept but wasn't as sophisticated on the touchscreen stuff.

haniel

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Jeff Han's version seemed to run a lot faster than this. Arguably, he didn't show anything like the things Bill did with the camera, but it shouldn't be that hard to implement (well, depending on hardware).

It looks like a powerful piece of hardware, but unless they can make it catch up to user input better, it's almost unusable.

Here is a link to the Jeff Han demonstration at TED Talks. You will find that some of the things said by Jeff Han and Bill Gates are awfully similar as well:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/65

Note: the filmed date on this speech was Feb 2006 (Posted August).

joeseph

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> You fanboys are freaking ridiculous. You swear allegiance to a CORPORATION, but to what end? Your money isn't enough for them? You think they care about you at all beyond your consumptive behaviors? When you grow up you will realize that you were a freaking idiot about this shit.

OMG a research institute came up with the idea first but didn't market it!!! Holy shit, alert the media!!!

Anyway, the table is cool. Who cares who came up with it, the bottom line is who can bring it to market and make some money off of it? I'm sure these things will be all over Vegas by the end of next year, and eventually become common-place in 5 years.

What you computer nerds fail to understand is that there is a huge ocean of people out there who don't give a crap about Microsoft or Apple, but who have money to spend nonetheless. They want technology that's easy to use, end of story.

Atrahasis

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Well someone @ Microsoft has been watching future movies...i.e. THE ISLAND. PS that would be quite the big bad blue scrren. to get daily.

RemyRed

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Well, when they release Service Pack 2 on it, and drop the price a little bit, then I'll consider upgrading my coffee table.

Until then, I'll just deal with doing things the old-fashioned way.

WhizGidget

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> See I was thinking the revolution is more that it going to market were as every other example similar to this is just a demo. I think it show some real potential. I'm waiting now to see what devs do with it.

Ultraorange

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Those supporting MS on this, thank you!.

Those squabbling nay-sayers, put-down, it's been done before, short sighted commenters, please go post something usefull somewhere else.

If this was easy to do, eveyone would be doing it.

The logistics to get this tech to market are far beyond the capabilities of many companies. Should be MS be penalized for making a run with it?
Certainly not.
They should be praised, not chastised. Period.

aec007

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> *cough*Jeff Han*cough*
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/65

What's funny is that only now a year later are they stealing his idea.

CaraiAnElisnade

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> I could care less about the coffee table, but as Tablet 2.0 it's cool. I don't care if the iPhone gets bigger or the table gets smaller, but somewhere in the middle, I think there's real potential. Throw in a flexible, folding display and eliminate lag, and I'm on board.

zakglass

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> I am not a huge MS, but I think people out there have to appreciate the engineering it takes to go from one of the technology demos is not insignificant. I think there are a lot of good uses for this, but I would really like to see more of these concepts in consumer applications. I think it solves a lot of the problems that have been preventing computers from reaching the living room, but there are a lot of issues where it is still going to struggle, which is probably the reason didn't wait a couple more years to let the tech prices trickle down to consumer level.

I wouldn't call this earth-shattering, but the potential is there. Hopefully, they don't have many of the Longhorn people on it.

Mokers

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> it's so obvious that it wasn't really a touch sensitive interface. it was just bill timing his hand movements with an animated gif.

j/k but 10K's not that bad. I mean a regular wooden 72 inch table from Ethan Allen is 2500.
http://www.ethanallen.com/jsp/universalprod.jsp?itemID=396...

mc

markcheng

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]>
Jeff Han, from NYU, displayed his research design at the August 2006 TED conference:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/65
http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/

and has specific details on the work that he, and others, have been doing in developing this new UI. This is another instance of microsoft copying and claiming innovation. It didn't happen. Microsoft has never done anything but snap up the technologies of others and claim it as their own innovation. Even the original core for the original IBM DOS from microsoft was a rework of the 16bit version of CP/M developed by Seattle Micro.

commgrp

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> @JeffPom :
This is not the same technology as the iPhone, the Microsoft surface is based on retro projection and infrared cameras. The iPhone is probably based on capacitive/resistive technologies and will probably be able to handle only 2 points of contact at the same time. Also, to Bjarnia, check out www.jazzmutant.com It's a commercial multitouch display for music.

Flipo

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> I wonder if this table will finally replace the wigi board used by aircraft carrier flight deck commanders to organize the top deck. I saw in a Discovery Channel program Carriers a few years back that they've tried everything to modernize that but the old system still beats anything new. Any sailors want to comment back?

apeguero

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> [quote]
I wonder if Apple saw a demo of Microsoft's Surface technology awhile back and started their copy machines?

It sure looks like they did. Nice job Microsoft![/quote]

Are you completely unfamiliar with M$ history of copying Apple first?

This is by far the worst MS product revealed.


domerdel

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Haters/Apple-fanboys keep in mind that this is v1.0 (maybe even v0.9) and this can only improve. I don't see a big use for this at home until it's in a better form factor. I think being able to just set your devices down and have them sync is really neat though. This could become a great media center PC, once my have affordable 3rd or 4th gen hardware.

RobotVampire

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Amazing!! Great job, This was a simultaneous project by Jeff Han @ NYU and MS @ MS Research for last few years and MS has taken it to market quicker because of their dollar power. It is as simple as that.

So please, All you fanboys, please appreciate this unbelievable piece of technology.

sotark

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Rooting for one company over another is pretty fucking retarded. Instead of remaining slaved to a brand, why don't you root for individual quality products, or concepts. Why don't you all just shut up, get over yourselves and be adults for five whole seconds?

Pope John Peeps II

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> ComputerWorld had a great article that covers this. That basically Apple and MS are helping to usher in a more human oriented interface. It's a bit Apple-stroking but I'm just happy to see both companies pushing this as the next step in GUI.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=vie...

HieronymusJones

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> $10000?
Thats Nothing For Big Buisnesses.
Mercedes Spends $10 Million on Research and Devolopment alone in a year!
Big companies will be buying dozens of these.

Ofcourse consumer-wise there are the Innovators * Early Adopters (product life-cycle), who are willing to Cash out $10000 and i bet you even more, if i had $10000 to spare I'd buy this duh.
I'd be living in the future with this aye... if i had the money...people would be like omfg..

My dad told me in the 1980s he once worked on a $40000 Computer, that had like 16mbRam and was like Omg latest tech, it was the time when ram only came in kb. I mean..Its Very Inexpensive this tech...its very new too.

.this thing will sell out like hot cakes ..just you wait.
Plasma Tv, People wanted to convicne me its worth it to buy it at $10000, i waited and bought it at $1000 sale Price, 42".
I'll buy this mutherfucker @ $1000, no questions asked.
Hopefully the cycle Will be Quicker than that of Plasma Tvs.

bob fisher

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> freeway8989, what you fail to realize is that you don't have to love one company to be objectively critical of another.

I swear, it seems like some people wait all day so they can type "fanboy" and feel better about themselves.

Like Falconfire, I've seen the MIT video...a long time ago. This isn't revolutionary to me. What will be is if/when they can weave this into a tablet PC form factor and price point.

pdx_flip

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> "its a good start."

No, the iPhone was a good start.

This is Micro$oft overpromising and soon underdelivering like they always do.

But keep on stroking it to all these cool videos, guys. Can't wait until 3-5 years from now when Surface will be able to beam a pizza to my living room directly from Domino's.

Marty_MacFly

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Does someone really HAVE to be "first" with something like this? Technology has always been built on the backs of others, this is no different. You all are so quick to say OMG SIMPSONS DID IT for no real good reason. Are we supposed to be impressed by your observation? Impressed that you called someone on supposedly ripping off someone else? How about you just marvel at the fact that something like this is going to be available in our lifetime and leave it at that.

nerds.

Frodo

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> its a good start.

koralex90

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> "Of course if it was Apple's, then it would be the best thing since sliced bread."

No, if it was Apple's, all the M$ fanboys would be out in droves complaining how this was nothing more than a rich man's playtoy, an overpriced proof-of-concept device for all the so-called Mac people whose pockets bulge with expendable cash.

This is a concept car, not in a sense that it can't be purchased but much of its functionality and overall appeal will be dumbed down before it reaches the masses. That's why Apple started with multi-touch in its simplest form, so EVERYONE can experience it NOW instead of 3-5 years down the road!

Only they wrapped it in a much more accessible product, applying it to one our most heavily used tools in the cell phone. Yet all you could hear from the haters is

"What, no keyboard? LAME!"

"Yuck, all those fingerprints & smudges. LAME!"

"What if I break the screen? LAME!"

Microsoft says the keyboard is dead 5 months after Steve Jobs made the same proclamation and NOW it's a revolution? Where were you people talking about the vast possibilities of multi-touch a few months ago?

Oh that's right, you were too busy complaining!

Marty_MacFly

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> You guys are ridiculous - noting the lag time in the drawing and whatnot. Where in that demo did Gates ever say it was production ready. It was a freaking demo for crying out loud.

Just admit it - despite the fact you may not be a Microsoft fan - its a nice sneak peak at where computers are headed.

kstagg

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> There was a video of something like this from Jeff Hahn on You Tube at a conference... Which came first? MS or that one? iPhone works with similar technology.

Who's TRULY "leading the way?"

JeffPom

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Um...doesn't this look like a copy of iPhone's 2 touch touch screen and those big touch screen things that have been talked about for months?

Nothing new, M$ taking other stuff.

BlindsidesDork

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> One question nobody seems to be bringing up; When it 'red rings', how big will the pre-paid 'coffin' shipping box be? Oh, my!

Dancing Milkcarton

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> It would be a great way to interface between your TV and computer. Have a little keyboard pop up and you can type stuff on your TV and send it out, etc. I can't imagine how power hungry this device is, how you still make it function as a regular coffee table, and how the hell you get a power outlet on your floor and through your carput/rug

Kos

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> can anybody zoom in enough to get Bill's Credit Card number? ;)

it didn't appear to be able to hand bill trying to slide two pictures at one time..they both jumped alternatively.

joe

joemader

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Here's a link to one of the first presentations of this idea. This was not a microsoft invention but I'm guessing the bought it up.

http://ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=j_han&flash...

Minty

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]>
no one could ever make it available.finally ms i think can.cant wait till i can afford one XD or see one.

No it could have been made available plenty of times, cost was the number one issue, which it continues to be.

think about it, do you really think your going to see a 10,000 dollar proprietary screen around when a 100 dollar dumb-terminal or 400 dollar computer can do all this?

Falconfire

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]>
I wonder if Apple saw a demo of Microsoft's Surface technology awhile back and started their copy machines?

It sure looks like they did. Nice job Microsoft

The past 3 months on Giz have shown me one thing - MS fanboys can be just as defensive and hyperbolical as their Apple brethren.

Dancing Milkcarton

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Yay! Now I can barf out all the pictures from my camera!

All I could think was that "bluegh.." should be the sound effect for when this happens. :)

I agree- multi-touch tables are obviously going to be an industry trend over the next decade or so, but lets wait and actually see when this technology is going to go down in price.

My guess is: 3-5 years from now, there will be a crappy knockoff product that tries to pull this into the consumer market before it's ready. Then in 7-10 years this tech will fall bellow 1k.

orionburch

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> @bjarnia

It would be great in the Adult Porn Industry!?!

Puts a whole new meaning to the "API" acronym.


yoshi

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> This is better than I had originally thought; however I don't quite see $10k worth of technology in this product.

Now... what happens when you spill something on this? Would it be the same as wiping your keyboard while it is still on?

gerbick

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Better even than asteroids! Can the barkeep refill your glaas with it?

ANoel

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> even if it is an old design no one could ever make it available.finally ms i think can.cant wait till i can afford one XD or see one.

Truepatriot

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Skeeve, please give us some example of commercial products with multi touch displays?
And no, not a fucking phone with a tiny 2 inch screen, i don't even know why they bothered with a multi touch screen on that, how many fingers can you fit on that anyway?

There is a huge difference between some lab proof of concept enginerring sample videos and ACTUALLY MAKING IT INTO A PRODUCT. Who is going to remember those lab nerds in 10 years? Noone


bjarnia

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Very cool concept but the lag would be bothersome.

I'd like to see the screen savers for this. Looking down at a fish tank...interactive mermaid...etc.

Tank

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Sweet, but I wonder if you watching poor on you table, I just think it adds to the creepiness if your rubbing your table at the same time to start a new movie. Nah to weird. But as a normal application based option I think that's the coolest idea Microsoft has come up with in a long time. I like the idea of how you split up your bill and just throw down your credit card, boom it's done, that's wicked. OVer all, interesting idea, I'd like to see how they would format the device for more of a home application. -_Cheers

DJRome

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> This IS the coolest gadget since sliced bread. And NO, it hasn't been done LIKE THIS before. Perceptive Pixel makes you stand up while Tom Cruising, and won't let you set your scotch and soda down on it, and make your brother in law pay for it.

vidmeister

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> remember that friends house? that one where you go over and have to take off your shoes and use coasters and everything is well placed and clean? now imagine that person with this.

"IF YOU DON'T USE A FUCKING COASTER RIGHT FUCKING NOW I'M GOING TO SHOVE THIS BANANA PHONE UP YOUR NOSE INTO YOUR FRONTAL LOBE! ... thanks! :)"

killarclown

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> so.... multi-touch display anyone?... not revolutionary at all. This is in fact, a lot laggier then the older version on youtube. Once again, Bill Gates claiming credit for something he did not invent.

skeeve

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> this will be a great product once the price drops and more and more places will be capable to using it's abilities. I wouldn't drop $10,000 on it to be perfectly honest regardless of how cool it is. But in the next few years with a cheaper price? Yes, definatly.

DataScream

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]>
I love how Apple fanboys are trying come up with something bad to say about the Surface

What that it is a ripoff of a 7 year old MIT design and from what I can see through googleing, the original designers are not members of Microsoft?

Just because it wasnt a Apple product, doesnt mean Microsoft didnt copy it from someone else.

Falconfire

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> ok.. im not an apple fanboy by any means, but this kinda looks like something apple has had out for a long time now. The difference is the apple multitouch screen has much beeter visuals, with no lag. check it out
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=637914692385318177...

Zaquita

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> The Microsoft table is not new. MIT media lab introduced that concept last year. I am pretty sure that technology was bought, both for microsoft and apples iPhone.

vima

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> That's was pretty cool just setting the camera down on the surface and it downloads the photos. And the restaurant demo was awesome.

bdkennedy1

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> microsoft will once again take a technology and push it out first to capture the market. we've all been seeing zillions of videos of this in concept..but it take MS to capitalize.

stagl

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]>
I'm glad to see MS leading the way.

Leading the way to what? None of this is revolutionary - all of it has been done before (and not by Apple, btw). Exactly what need is this filling? It's a solution without a problem.

Admittedly, this looks very, very cool. But my comment above stands. Maybe a different suite of applications to run on it would change my mind. Hunching over a table just doesn't seem like a lot of fun.

Dancing Milkcarton

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> i do all that crap on my coffee table already....and i got it for $7.50 at goodwill!

seriously though, i'd love to have something like that, but it won't be in my house for a penny more than $2,500.

TonyRockyHorror

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> I love how Apple fanboys are trying come up with something bad to say about the Surface.


"Yeah, my head might explode since looking down at a table for so long will cause all the blood to rush to my head."

"Yeah, my spine is incapable of flexibility."


...Genius

freeway8989

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Bill actually seemed pretty human in this video. I liked his comment about tipping, "I try to meet people's expectations." Not easy when you're the richest man in the world.

jmonty

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]>
Nice lag on the tic tac toe finger drawings, even better lag when Bill signs the picture.

I guess that means this is at least as good as the debit/credit kiosk pads at any local grocery store.

My thoughts exactly. The more the 'coolness' factor wears off of how it *looks*, I have serious doubts about its actual usefulness.

Dancing Milkcarton

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Nice to see that the 3 posts before me have nothing good to say about the product.

Of course if it was Apple's, then it would be the best thing since sliced bread.

$10K ? Yes, I would drop it on it if I had the money. A gaming rig get to that level of cost and more.

I'm glad to see MS leading the way.

aec007

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> I wonder if Apple saw a demo of Microsoft's Surface technology awhile back and started their copy machines?

It sure looks like they did. Nice job Microsoft!

yoshi

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> I can dig it. At least the tab will finally be sorted out correctly when I go to a happy hour now.

Geisrud

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> I can't imagine setting my drink down on my $10G super surface computing coffee table, but I want one anyway.

DrewGradesPoo

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Yep, $10,000 for another table (albeit a fancy one) that my kids can leave all their crap on... sigh.

bfergus

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> this tech looks alot like whats in the iphone i wonder if stevie and billy are gonna talk about that when they meet this week

toughpups

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> If it could really do all that, $10k would be a bargain. But I doubt it can.

watersketch

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> @maevro

I will add to your worthless comment. This is freakin' cool!

yoshi

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Slogan: "Microsoft Table, causing back aches since 2007"

Maybe they need to do a little vertical marketing with Windex or Glass Plus too.

axiomatic

]]> <![CDATA[Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table]]> Nice lag on the tic tac toe finger drawings, even better lag when Bill signs the picture.

I guess that means this is at least as good as the debit/credit kiosk pads at any local grocery store.

billege

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