http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/ Engadget Comments for Hands-on with Savant's $35000 ROSIE Coffee Table http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/Sep 8th 2007 8:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/Sep 8th 2007 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/Sep 8th 2007 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/Sep 8th 2007 10:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/Sep 8th 2007 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/Sep 8th 2007 8:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/Sep 8th 2007 12:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/Read: http://www.microsoft.com/surface/

Where's your proof?

]]>Sep 8th 2007 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/Sep 8th 2007 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/Sep 8th 2007 9:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/Sep 8th 2007 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/Sep 8th 2007 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/Sep 8th 2007 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/Sep 8th 2007 9:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/Sep 8th 2007 9:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/Sep 8th 2007 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/Sep 8th 2007 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/
It doesn't have the fancy software front end, just straight up OSX.... But its useful as an itunes control... and for some games, and surfing the web, etc.

Hmm, I should probably post photos of that thing sometime.]]>Sep 10th 2007 2:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/Sep 8th 2007 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/Sep 8th 2007 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/Sep 8th 2007 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/So your going to pay 35 large for a computer you have to network to another computer so you can input media... and then get a bad back leaning over the thing so you can use it, and it has an interface reduced to a a few lousy controls?
So, bottom line, you spend 10x a regular full boat mac to get a shittty version.
Nice.]]>Sep 8th 2007 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/Sep 8th 2007 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/Sep 8th 2007 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/Sep 8th 2007 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/Sep 8th 2007 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/Sep 8th 2007 7:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/
It can also recognize... anything. The way it recognized the Zune and the camera and everything else in the demos was the "domino tags" put on the bottom of the devices, not the devices themselves. Yes they have to have wifi and drivers to do any kind of wireless synching, but you can have the Surface interact with anything (like how they showed it responding to putting down a glass on top). The tags are just IR ink printed stickers, called "domino tags" because the patterns printed to encode what the item is look kind of like domino dots.]]>Sep 9th 2007 5:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/Sep 9th 2007 8:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/]]>Sep 9th 2007 1:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/Sep 9th 2007 5:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/Sep 9th 2007 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/hands-on-with-savants-35000-rosie-coffee-table/
Basically it just runs off of a Mac that's stored somewhere else in your house. Apparently you can connect up to eight devices to one Mac. I'm not sure how that works physically, maybe some kind of breakout box.

But yeah, it looked more like some kind of OSS project than a retail product. I was really disappointed.]]>Sep 10th 2007 2:04PM