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Have Your Family Gather 'Round the Virtual Table

Posted by michael on from the pass-the-salt dept.

Ridgelift writes "A new device is helping families and loved ones feel connected even when they're far apart. Part of the Media Lab's Habitat project, a pair of 'cyber-tables' are equipped with radio tag readers, projectors and computers running on Linux and Macintosh operating systems. 'Habitat's designers say the system can give people a sense of what their loved ones are up to and perhaps even how they are feeling'."

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  1. Objects get larger over time ! by IamGarageGuy+2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Gee what could i put on the table and leave it there for a long time.

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  2. WHAT the FUCK are you GOING ON ABOUT?!?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    WELL?!?!?

    1. Re:WHAT the FUCK are you GOING ON ABOUT?!?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Geesh, it's late on Friday...I've got DSL lines failing left right and center...and DNS servers under script-kiddie attack
      It's called a Troll...

  3. Re:Woo, RFID tags by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ha-ha, you're gonna get marked as redundant.