Microsoft Surface: one day your computer will be a big-ass table
By Darren Murph 
posted June 20th 2007 1:07PM
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Mabey I'm a bit of a hypochondriac but I don't look foward to rubbing my hand all over a surface that's meant to be used by everyone else. I know I do this all the time with other surfaces but I keep it to a minimum if I can.
It does seem like a high cost solution to a non-exhistant problem. In other words, it's camp and halfbaked. There is also one oversight, we like to look at things that are in front of our eyes. It doesn't seem like hunching over a table seems ideal.
eh... your all taking this video way too seriously. Its a funny parody based off someone's opinion about the table... so, Yeah, chill out.
not for nothin....but i think that "big ass table" is friggin cool. and if people are willing to spend 1500$ on a key board then why not spend money on one of the most user friendly computers the world has ever seen
sure, blantant microsoft bashing, and I do love me some PC action (and hate me some apple action), but that video is one of the funniest things i've seen in a long time.
I thought the video was funny, chuckle funny, not HAHA funny. This is innovative, but where I see this going is in bars and resturants to advertise. I can see ads scrolling across this thing, or a coke commercial playing everything you order one. I can see it now.... You are trying to have a romatic evening at a resturant and this thing is trying to sell you a car. Yet another way for us to be exposed to some ads.
I sure hope not.
I wonder if that big-ass table can recognize a big ass sitting on it.
"I wonder if that big-ass table can recognize a big ass sitting on it."
Yes Sy. Then they'll pop up a Jenny Craig ad as the Surface screams "Oww!"
Video was corny!! but hey what do you expect from the MS baching Engadet... I see tomorrows Top story Steve Jobs wips his ass see the toliet paper photos now!!
All you people do is complain!!!!! OMG!!!!!!!
Laugh every once in a while!
the bias displayed by Engadget here is cray...what do you mean "reality check?" and will engadget post all the virals blasting the iPhone...somehow i think not. MS Surface has mad potential.
i laffed, and can see MS will be as well when the big @ss table hits mainstream. eventually shrinking in size. the usefullness of this thing isnt totally seen of yet for some, but to others man oh man. think board games like chess being played on this thing, or air-hockey without the air. once the size shrinks itll be in everyones home.
"once the size shrinks itll be in everyones home."
*laughs*
*thinks of iPhone*
meh iphone can only do so much.
MS should be glad for the press. This thing came and went in less than a week. This is the only other post I've seen about it since the week it was announced.
Hey guess what the people who made this table aren't the same people on the Xbox team, get a brain. BTW really lame video. I would love for one of these to replace my desk at work.
hahahahahaha very funny video
>>If you replaced every tabletop in a bar/restaurant with this thing (think your favorite chicken wings joint) you can eliminate the need for 1-2 snotty waitresses who ignore you half the time and only stop to ask "how is everything?" at the precise moment your piehole is stuffed full.
The waitresses at my favorite chicken wings joint are pretty hot. (Maybe that's why it's my favorite). I wouldn't want to replace them with a computer.
people need to stop being so serious, that sh*t was funny. lol
Yeah... Funny like Jimmy Fallon.
Oy vey... my neck! Where is the arcade game form factor?
Exactly what I was thinking when I first saw Microsoft's video of that monstrosity.
they are each different teams the surface team is completely off centered from the xbox building.
why can't anyone take in for consideration anything that microsoft comes up with especially these sites it is always engadget and gizmodo encouraging the microsoft bashing. This product i great and they did not steal it from anyone that MIT student table is different and works different form surface. It is a cool computer and they never said it was a computer more like a utility and designed for businesses like hotels, restaurants, or mall kiosks. This is innovating but since apple did not think of it the little babies around here won't give it a try. Go ahead rank me low but i am getting pretty tired of all this bashing!
I love the dig at Apple at the end. That I will have to buy my music all over again because Apple has locked me in to their iTunes DRM. Now what was the reason I don't buy shitty quality MP3s on iTunes?
You know - the weird thing is - by the end of the video, I still wanted one.
I guess it's a better product than I thought...
i read big ass-table
http://xkcd.com/c37.html
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/65
This is the closest thing to it that i've seen
he came up with the hardware even microsoft shows it in the surface website and in many other newscast but the software and applications he was using were provided by microsoft. They are the ones that designed the software specially formulated for it.
Lame attempt for fanboys trying to be funny. How about we laugh at a $600 touchscreen phone? Cause you can watch videos of your kids playing by themselves on it too.. Lame.
This whole senseless display is SO lame.
How is this bias? Really, this is the first time I've ever seen MS ripped on this hard on Engadget. It's been done lots of times to Apple and it's ALWAYS been funny.
I've got a Mac and a PC sitting right next to each other and I like them both for different reasons. I use MS Products and Apple Products for different reasons and different end results. When Apple puts out those lame ass commercials I call bullshit. When MS does something shitty, I call bullshit.
The Surface parody is totally funny! Cause it's a big-ass table! Yeah the tech is very cool, and yeah everybody's gonna want one. But at first it's probably gonna cost $10,000 dollars. Why are turds you even flipping out over something that you KNOW is gonna be a hit anyways? I heard about the 15-incher and said to a friend: "How cool is it gonna be one day to have one of those as like, a big ass table?" So yeah, IT'S FUNNY. 1 parody isn't going to change people's desire to get the product. So just be cool about it... Jeezus, it's like an AllTel Wireless commercial up in here.
Are these really MS fanboys? Really? Because it would be pretty lame for Microsoft Surface managers and engineers to get on here, bias-rate comments, and jump all up Engadget's ass about a PARODY when Apple is straight-up clowning your asses in commercials on national television every freakin day! So I hope that's not the case...
Now, Where and When can I get myself one of those BIG-ASS TABLES!!!
Eric, I'm impressed you can afford a $10,000 coffee table for your office. This isn't a flat screen you can stick on top of a desk, you know. It's a box with delicate moving parts inside. Trust me when I say forget about Surface. Simply having a custom touchscreen application and Bluetooth connectivity will allow you to sync devices through the air with ease. Just go check out Bill Barsh's YouTube videos on touchscreen on Linux.
http://www.youtube.com/user/billbarsch
With a little research, what you expect to purchase for megabucks from Microsoft (who have nothing to sell to you), can mostly be done today. If you want multitouch, I'll bet you dollars to donuts that Apple will have a consumer product ready before Microsoft will. Oh, I mean... you know... their NEXT consumer multitouch product (after the one being released next week).
I wonder if porn comes up when you place your privates on it? Now that would be innovation.