Microsoft's Multitouch Coffee Table Display

longacre writes "Popular Mechanics takes the Microsoft Surface system for a hands-on video test drive. To be announced at today's D5 conference, the coffee-table-esqe device allows manipulation from multiple touch points, while infrared, WiFi and Bluetooth team up to allow wireless transfers between devices placed on top of it, such as cameras and cell phones. Expected to launch before the end of the year in the $5,000-$10,000 range, the devices might not make their way under many Christmas trees, but will find the insides of Starwood hotels, Harrah's casinos and T-Mobile shops."

Comments

Where do ideas come from?

[Geoffrey.landis]

Wow, that's annoying. I wrote a computer display coffee-table into a science-fiction story that I just finished writing, and now everybody's going to think I just steal ideas from reading Slashdot.

FTFA

[Scrameustache]

forget the keyboard and mouse: The next generation of computer interfaces will be hands-on. That is THE stupidest thing I've read all day, and I've been to fark!

Now, excuse me while I try to nudge my mouse with my mouth...

Re:Credit where due department (Yeah To MIT)

[samkass]

And it's built from the same Carbon, Oxygen, Nitrogen, and Hydrogen that everything else is built from, too! Jeez, can't Microsoft come up with some original atoms to use???

Re:Credit where due department

[Jtheletter]

Oh Cripes, throw me a technology idea that no one else has thought of first. I challenge you.

Oh I cannot resist. How about..... an electromagnetic colorectal implant. It can be used to stick your keys, cellphone, etc to your waist w/o need for pouches or a belt, it helps you... uh, stick to metal seats better? Oh, and you can make interesting light shows by shakin' your booty next to CRTs. Just don't walk too close to the knife bock in your kitchen with it turned on!

I *really* hope no one else has thought of that.

Re:Other Articles

[stonecypher]

I wonder what the Blue Screens look like?

I'd imagine they're fairly blue.

That's no table!

[SuperKendall]

Bad news - that's no table, that's the new Zune Phone rumored for so long to compete against the iPhone!

Llama or sherpa not included.