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Secondlight, Microsoft's New Surface Prototype
Barence writes "Microsoft has literally added another dimension to its touchscreen table technology Surface. The new table projects an image through the table itself, so that any translucent material (such as tracing paper or perspex) held above the Surface screen displays a different image to what you see on the table's display. This means you can have a satellite image of a town on the table, and have the street names projected on to a piece of paper that the user holds above the map. Or you could have a photo of a car, with the tracing paper displaying images of its innards."
Any 3D viruses for it yet?
Most of the stuff on
A bigger ass table!
Task Mangler
I've been blocking video projectors with objects to annoy my teachers for years. I claim prior art!
Everyone on Slashdot except for you.
OK, off to do laundry now. When will they make a robot that does my laundry for me? Now THAT will be progress.
It's called a washing machine.
"Do not stare into table with remaining eye."
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He's talking about a folding machine, and it would truly be a great invention. Just dump in the laundry and out comes a folded pile. Bonus if it sorts socks!
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...who's going to use it?
Perverts.
It's called a wife.
He's bitter beacuse he's dyslexic, and to add insult to injury he name himself "moniker" when he meant to type "monkier".
Oh, come on. The potholes aren't THAT deep!
Look at the pic with TFA. There, behind the pretty flowers, revealed only by use of the Magic Translucent Paper, are what appear to be....
Frickin' sharks with frickin' lasers on their frickin' heads!
Apparently, Dr. Evil Ballmer has some type of plan to make MILLIONS off of this new technology...
"...there are some things that can beat smartness and foresight. Awkwardness and stupidity can." ~ Mark Twain
Have you considered the Total Cost of Ownership?
How we know is more important than what we know.
This is Unix!
You can't handle the truth.
No, but there are some pop-ups.
Any would be a good start.
Basically most people are saying what they think about the thing, or telling what they think through humor
Which I find overly predictable. Although the topics may be news for nerds or stuff that matters, the discussions are only karma whoring, Microsoft bashing, and +5 funny. I'm frustrated because Slashdot used to be filled with posts from engineers. Slashdot used to be the Scientific American of discussion groups. Now it's like Digg only geared towards Microsoft bashing rather than the Apple fan site that is iDigg. I understand that people don't like Microsoft, I just find it more difficult each day searching though the +5 funny or the M$ posts trying to find the intelligent content of days past.
Linux Rocks! There... Mod me up.
Try Folding@Home...
Dude, this is slashdot. Wife? Oh that inflatable doll sitting in the corner. Gotcha.