See Engadget's report. Turns out it's going to be a while before any of those sooper-dooper coffee tables of the future actually arrive in the real world. I just left Bill a message about this, asking him if we could help them out in any way.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
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Perhaps the time has come for Apple to release their holographic emitting glass coffee table.
Sure you could help.
Tell them to reduce it's size by about...oh... several feet, and then add Safari-Mini, a phone feature (maybe Skype), a digital camera, and some sort of Cover-Windows-Flow.
"Boom."
Insta-hit.
(Welcome.)
I remember watching a movie, I think it was The Island with Ewan McGregor (terrible movie, by the way), and the big bad bass had a table like that which he drew and managed files on. I couldn't help but think: yeah, it's cool, but what about your coffee and documents you don't want people to see and carpal tunnel syndrome and all that. IDK, I just don't think it translates well into real life.
What we need is computers where we can just wave our hands, like in Minority Report. I think they're doing something like that at the MIT Media Lab. Say, FSJ, maybe you and NN can make peace long enough for Apple to acquire the patents to that?
MSFT's done all the research so that Apple to come in and swoop the markets in December with the new touch screen technology. Very flowy. Everywhere.
>> whiteboards
Umm, WTF? You'd need an extra room next door to house the IR detector/projector. Yeah, that's going to fly.
Hmm... 2000+ enquiries for Surface? That doesn't sound like much. There are probably just as many iJustines that would like to express their dear love for dear leader.
Now my coffee table is going to BSOD and crash?
Don't table and table have the same Greek root?
How could you possibly help? Heaven knows what happens when you divert your software engineers to other projects!!
It seems to me that you need to devote your engineering team to fix the problems in Leopard.
btw... where'd my files go?
@ _alexander_zero
A normal flat table isn't going to cut it. Because that's made for stacking meat-items and such, and you can get at things further away because they stick up in the air. Instead more like a drafting table, so you can tilt a bit (the magic number ergonomics is usually 19%). Now you've got that natural slope that you already have on your desk (short, or bare, towards you, higher away from you)
Add a little ledge (like drafting tables have) or two for laying the RFID tagged items on (or at least something other than the extremely crude 8-bit bar code that Surface uses). Maybe a pointer for very fine detailed work? (AKA pen)
Then the bottom has a keyboard that uses that Apple patent for physically rising ridges slightly out of the screen when it's needed.
Now network them to add sharing desktops with others. Obviously an inbox/outbox. A corner that you can pop up to view network resources to drag over.
Presto, a real desktop computer.
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