Microsoft announces an end to coffee rings

Jonathan Peterson

#1 – 12:52 PM September 22, 2009

You think the surface table is cool?

You should see the big-ass ziplock back it COMES in.

http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q300/thejonnyp/surfacetable-bag.jpg

Trent Hawkins

#2 – 1:49 PM September 22, 2009

Is that bloody thing finally finished, or what? We got trade shows to do.

SaulTSack

#3 – 2:02 PM September 22, 2009

I test drove one of these things for a focus group around 5 years ago. It's kinda nifty and all, but even then it felt like a solution looking for a problem.

At the time, the guy leading the discussion went on and on about how it was going to revolutionize things, they were going to build them into counter tops, have kiosks in malls, etc.

Got paid $150 to fool around with some vaporware for a couple hours.

Reverend Loki

#4 – 3:29 PM September 22, 2009

A $2000 table you can't use, with a built in $1300 screen that's easy to break.

IIRC, didn't someone mock up a Linux equivalent that used an above-table projector instead, which cost about a tenth of this and was more durable to boot?

Anonymous Anonymous

#5 – 6:30 PM September 22, 2009

I can't see paying for this, except the possibility of using it as a substitute arcade game table with MAME. Using touch to guide Pac-Man or Dig-Dug would be neat.

CraziestGadgetsdotcom

#6 – 8:15 PM September 22, 2009

so i guess you can't put your feet up on it to watch tv?

hohum

#7 – 8:51 AM September 23, 2009

Wait, what? This just looks like a Surface to me… Which isn't vaporware by any means… I've been to a few hotels that had them peppered all over… And you most certainly can put drinks on them… You could put your feet up on it too, it's not like the tabletop is made of a fragile LCD panel or something… It's a thick sheet of glass, with a projector shooting an image up onto it…

Also, I thought the Surface was in the ballpark of like $12,000, not $2,000…

But but then the article is just about tablet computing… (Puzzled)

MarkM

#8 – 10:46 AM September 23, 2009

"How wonderful. Now I have to make sure my couch and chairs color-coordinate with the BSOD!"

toxonix

#9 – 1:05 PM September 23, 2009

I'm trying to watch videos on it, but I'm getting tired of standing over the thing.
I want to sit down please.
tilt.

stevew

#10 – 6:49 AM September 24, 2009

Funny, that looks just like an iPhone held at about 12" from the eye.