TEC develops 3D Tobidasu table menu, makes your mouth water

Shortly after Teraoka's Deli Touch pen gave a reason to (almost) ignore the wait staff entirely, along comes the 3D Tobidasu table menu to make you order way more food than you likely would otherwise. Developed by TEC, the pop-up menu is designed to be integrated into restaurant tables, and reportedly, it enables patrons to browse the offerings and view individual items in "3D." Granted, the photo above doesn't really capture the effect, but if you look long enough, chances are you'll be salivating in no time.

[Via The Raw Feed]

[superfresh @ Mar 13th 2008 11:12AM]

Is it also a time machine? That image looks like it was swiped from an episode of Flo.

[superfresh @ Mar 13th 2008 11:15AM]

"the photo above doesn't really capture the effect..."

I'm sure this line will be attached to this product for some time.

[Khris @ Mar 13th 2008 11:41AM]

Personally, I would rather order/pay using a computer terminal and avoice having to deal with either the chatty cathy waitress, or the one who couldn't be bothered to crack a smile because she's a nasty bitch.

Bring on the cell phone ordering!!!

[silverblackvoid @ Mar 13th 2008 11:42AM]

3d??? the pic above is more like 2d.

[Kizorblade @ Mar 13th 2008 12:37PM]

Do you have a 3d monitor? Yeah. I thought not.

Otherwise the monsters would be jumping out from your screen and kicking your arse!

Or displaying what's on the menu... that's fine too.

[Gleidus @ Mar 13th 2008 12:34PM]

If my table crashes, I'll have to have another working one immediately! Good forbid I have to use a paper menu! *scoff*

[Big Ed @ Mar 14th 2008 8:43AM]

I'm hungry...

[Unimpressed @ Mar 14th 2008 8:44PM]

I realize that nobody here supports Microsoft, but have you seen Surface? http://www.microsoft.com/surface If you look at the middle video ("The Power"), you'll see that this isn't new. If you look at the third video ("The Possibilities"), there is even a demonstration of how you pay at a restaurant, calculate tip, and never have to hand over your card.