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[Black Flame]

Videos for a new tabletop computer called Microsoft Surface. One hell of an innovation!

Opinions?

[philywilly]

Saw it yesterday... looks barking sick!! But 10k is soo much money.

[SupermanFTM]

I just saw this before I came on Codex... VERY nice Looks sick.

[otherworld]

wow...

nice

[Gargar]

I think it's amazing, your right 10k is a bit steep for personal use but for in restaurants and places like that it would be amazing.

[philywilly]

I think it's amazing, your right 10k is a bit steep for personal use but for in restaurants and places like that it would be amazing.

Yeah, probably perfect for restaurants, but even then.. I'm not sure many places would adopt the system.

[otherworld]

yeah 10k poer table

thats alot, plus when they break and you spill a drink on them or something, could be costly

[Gargar]

yeah 10k poer table

thats alot, plus when they break and you spill a drink on them or something, could be costly

Im sure they would have a sheet of glass or something over it.

[Black Flame]

yeah 10k poer table

thats alot, plus when they break and you spill a drink on them or something, could be costly

At 10k per table, it better not break when you spill something on it If the table cost 10k, think what fixing it would cost

[otherworld]

Ok, but im pretty sure they will break too often for the company owners liking

[ink]

Definitely looks like they ripped this off of that MIT student's project. Unless of course they bought him out...

Cool none the less. Slightly impractical for everyday users or even power users. It would be cool at stores and restaurants though.

AND THEY EVEN SAID IN THE ONE EXCLUSIVE REVIEW THAT IT WAS THE FIRST OF ITS KIND!!! SUCH BS!

Edited by ink, 31 May 2007 - 05:55 PM.

[Jewbert]

It looks neat... but if there were nothing over it I couldnt' STAND to put a watery drink on it or even my own fingerprints! I can't stand that shit! But it does look pretty awesome. I think I would get tired of looking down at it .... You can lean back and operate it... Hm. Maybe it will become popular in restaurants and the like?

[Kitchwa]

That looks incredible. Though even though I'd say they'd have glass over the screen I wouldn't dare put any kind of liquid on there

[pyke]

It looks neat... but if there were nothing over it I couldnt' STAND to put a watery drink on it or even my own fingerprints!

As opposed to a non watery drink?

Ermm... I'll stick to my normal computers. Not new, not innovative and looks to be a pain in the neck.

[Kitchwa]

The video Kitsune posted was rather good. That drawing thingy he did was awesome

[Black Flame]

I thought the guys voice got slightly annoying after about 5 minutes, but cool vid nonetheless Ange

[Kitchwa]

It's all about the breathing people! Gawd

*continues to breathe heavily to annoy people*

[Jewbert]

As opposed to a non watery drink?

Ermm... I'll stick to my normal computers. Not new, not innovative and looks to be a pain in the neck.

Lols. I was talking about one that has a lot of condensation on the outside of it....

[Greeny]

looks alright. But i dont see much point in using it as a personal pc, say for gaming, even email. Wheres the keyboard

personal pcs atm wil last for ages

Edited by Greeny, 01 June 2007 - 09:49 AM.

[HellRaiser]

It looks OK. IT could be better. From just watching that video i can think of 1000 ways to improve the design so it won't piss people off with the pain the neck problem and other things.

[Gnome]

Cool 10,000 to look at wendies restraunts and play some music ohhhh and drag pictures!

[Mumei]

i've seen pre-releases of this few a few weeks now, i didn't think people would be that interested - about 90% of what i've heard about it can't be done right now due to security issues and standards issues (the interaction with phones, CCards and PDA's require standards that are only just hitting the standards boards - we are only just about to issue contactless Credit cards in this country - pilot in London is due end July August sometime) and opening a device like that so it has access to your photo's, films, data files is always an 'interesting' situation when you look at companies rolling these things out as they have to store these files in the device (even if it's for a small time) and that opens security issues.

even the ordering meals at your table and creating your playlists using the interface seem somewhat limited - and anyone who's seen an ATM at 3am on a Saturday night with a Kebab decorating it's EPP will see some obvious flaws in the system LOL

Looks pretty, i've seen the technology of multi point user interface and object interaction before (but with OHP and light based sensors and cameras) i suppose it's only now that it can all fit into a small desk (the demo's i've seen before used things like 20+ cpu blade servers)