am i the only one that thinks this is useless? I mean, sure it looks cool, but what exactly is the purpose of splattering my digital photos over a screen and rotating them around? How do I "organize" my photos by dragging them around a screen? Sure it looks cool when you play with the finger paint program, or the water effect program, but all of that is just eye candy. What if I pop my digicam on the table that has 400 photos on it? I get a huge pile of photos that I can drag around, resize and....... ___________?
And how will it fare after the Labrador chasing the kids sweeps over two coffees and a grapefruit juice on its surface?? Will the grease-leaking Pizza box wreck it?
I want the capabilities of the table on any entire wall as I wish, with the data transfer from anywhere in the whole house.
Originally Posted by marvin /img/forum/go_quote.gif Software, not hardware.
That's why this is impressive.
The big multitouch demo from early last year is Jeff Han's baby, not Sun's. The other big multitouch demo was Apple's iPhone unveiling.
I can't wait for Microsoft's hardware technology and Jeff Han's software to trickle down to home computers. Here's a link to one of Han's demos that shows off some of the applications a 3D interface can bring. It will really help with visualization and animation: will make my job of animation very different
Originally Posted by uraflit /img/forum/go_quote.gif wow. looks cool. but is it practical?! =D
Very
OK, resizing photos with your hands is cool, but not much different then a mouse environment.....but a whole new world in 3D modeling, medical visualization, structural engineering, and cartography is now being opened.
it definitely has potential, like the demonstration where the person drags a photo wirelessly from the camera to the phone. That adds so much convenience and more importantly a very human and intuitive interface. Unlike now if I want to do the same thing, I have to connect both device to a PC with CABLES (ugh the mess).
Well, I remember when they had pac man and other games in a table like this. I guess that went out of style quickly. Time will tell if this takes off. I think for me, my big feet would get in the way of being able to use this kind of coffee table cuz that's the feature I like best out of a coffee table.
Originally Posted by pne /img/forum/go_quote.gif am i the only one that thinks this is useless? I mean, sure it looks cool, but what exactly is the purpose of splattering my digital photos over a screen and rotating them around? How do I "organize" my photos by dragging them around a screen? Sure it looks cool when you play with the finger paint program, or the water effect program, but all of that is just eye candy. What if I pop my digicam on the table that has 400 photos on it? I get a huge pile of photos that I can drag around, resize and....... ___________?
Very far from useless, methinks. Less useful as a personal computing device, but the potential commercial applications for surface computing are enormous.
I think we will see this device not only in restaurants and photo retail outlets, but also in places like hotels, salons, gaming arcades (do they still exist?), casinos, schools etc.
two reasons I was disappointed with this: 1. it's based on projection and camera tech (i.e. 19th century tech - NOT a touch-screen innovation), and 2. it's too big for most consumer apps (it's directed at restaurants and so forth).
Originally Posted by melomaniac /img/forum/go_quote.gif two reasons I was disappointed with this: 1. it's based on projection and camera tech (i.e. 19th century tech - NOT a touch-screen innovation), and 2. it's too big for most consumer apps (it's directed at restaurants and so forth).
dude.. what are you talking about...' =_=
the it is call Multi-touch screen technology>>> that means it is freaking touch screen
... the research leader repeat this phrase over and over and over again.. unless you are deaf, or else I do not know how do you miss that
the projection and camera method is used on reading the items been placed on the table. Perhaps, a bar code on the button of the plate, drinks, or products so that the computer would recognize what is been placed on the table.
Also, from all the video... I don't see anything about transfer all the photos at the same time, instead.... I see them dragging one photo at a time.. for the post above, where the hell did your idea of the machine automatically transfer all the photos came from
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