SurfaceWare lets bartenders know when you need more booze

Microsoft's Surface technology has mostly seemed like a rather outlandish prototype for interactive bar surfaces that will never been seen outside of the most repellant and gaudy of Las Vegas casino bars, but this feature of SurfaceWare still seems pretty neat. Sure, it's cynical technology aimed at allowing bartenders to get you to spend up more efficiently, but a bar surface that detects the level of alcohol in your glass and sends an electric shock into your bartender's biomechanically enhanced nerve clusters the moment your scotch is down to the last few drops would be useful, at the very least, for curtailing the usual passive aggressive staring and finger snapping of the rapidly dehydrating alcoholic.

SurfaceWare [YouTube via Engadget]

[#1 posted by MouthyAmerican , October 23, 2008 10:55 AM]

They are operating under the erroneous assumption that my server actually gives a shit about the quality of the service. Perhaps they should turn up that electric shock.

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