Another fricken table I would have to keep clean.

Another place to see a Blue Screen of Death.

This looks like a rip off of Jeff Han's project which he showed at TED in feb '06

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/65

Another fricken table API to learn.

I want to play games on it like those old videos.

I want to see what all that music copying looks like after they install the table's DRM.

Great, another techonology idea stolen by Microsoft.

Mitsubishi has been working on something like this for years now. I saw it demoed at NextFest last year. It was totally sweet. http://www.merl.com/projects/DiamondTouch/

He plays Warcraft! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXAqdh4-hcwc

No way this will be as easily usable as shown in the video. Not for another 10 years or so.

This is just like Minority Report. In fact, the OLED was just like Minority Report, too.

Oh for Pete's sake... "Microsoft stole this" "Microsoft copied that".

They've been working on it for 6 years now... and they've been working with the guys who came up with multitouch etc.

You could say that Apple copied multitouch, but I bet none of you did, because, hey, it's Apple, they never do that.

It's not copying in any of these cases, it's taking a cool technology (multitouch) and turning it into something really useful.

I believe that this is really the most useful demonstration of the technology yet.

Jeff Han founded a company ( http://www.perceptivepixel.com/ ) to market the multi-touch interface. Nothing is stolen, and nothing was ripped off.

It really did surprise me that this is suddenly hitting the market as a Microsoft product.

Another similar surprise I learned about today in a TED talk.

These two technologies combined make my skull feel small.

i want one! at my work deskwith evrything hidden and stored out of sight, no wires, no cables, just the table top interface
soon they will develop this so that it can fit in thin spaces, such as embedded in a wall or any other surface (or even flexible!!!) i want one of those gigantic wall sized ones from perceptivepixel

spoco2: Nobody said anything about Apple, becouse this vid in NOT ABOUT Apple.

rubadub: So incorporating means nobody can steal you intellectual property?

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I'm not asserting that MS stole JH's invention, I'm just saying it LOOKS like a copy. Did PP inc sell it to MS? Did MS copy some integral part of JH's system to get the project they had been "working on for 6 years" to function? I don't know (and likely neither does anybody else here)

MS has a history of taking other peoples ideas without attribution (as does Apple to a lesser degree) so am I out of my mind to assert that this MIGHT be the case again? I'm not going to drop $50K to pull one of these appart to find out, so we are all guessing at this point.

I thought that JH's demo at TED was appropriate. I know his work is based on an original system which he invented. It seems reasonable to me to referance "new" devolopments which look an awful lot like his system by pointing to JH as a pioneer in the field, and perhaps inventer of the technology.

Damn, MS really is the "bad guy" for people huh?

Press: "MS presents X!"
People: "X is a rip off! X will break down! WAHHHHHHH! WAHHHHHHH!"

They make a lot of money. Step 1: If you don't like them, don't buy from them. Step 2: SHADDUP!

Step 3: Fight Back.

Wow, a touch screen, havent seen one since 1986. Multitouch? unis have been doing work on them for years. Nothing new, just MS recycling other peoples work as usual.

Oh god. This is *never* going to be that easy to use. Half your time will be spent searching for drivers for your handhelds, getting your network connections to work without a keyboard, trying to figure out why the table doesn't recognize your WtfPod 3000, and filtering out table-spam while you're trying to drink your coffee.

What happens when you place a can of Spam™ on it?

@ arrendek : I would happily not buy their stuff if it didn't come preinstalled on every x86 laptop.

And don't give me that "you can pay an extra $500 for a virgin laptop" crap either.

MS is the only company I don't like, from which I can not reasonably not purchase software (which I promptly delete).

Can't do step 1, won't do step 2.

So am I annoyed with them? yes.
Does that make my comments untrue? no.

FYI, Dell is selling machines with Ubuntu on them, which is very very easy to use... Don't say you don't have choices... you just refuse to explore them.

and, if you really wanted, there's ways to get OSX running on an IBM-compat, so...

Microsoft doesn't steal so much as they acquire... if you own the company that invented it, it's yours...

@ pho3n1x : Dell did not offer ubuntu when I bought my last laptop, and If they still do in 5 years when I need another, then I'll stop complaining.

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