Microsoft's SurfaceWare gets you drunk faster than drinks through a straw
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Oct 22nd 2008 3:31AM
posted Oct 22nd 2008 3:31AM
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Excuse me waiter, I will have two shots of what the surfaceware is having, on the rocks.
Microsoft just wants to get you drunk and fuck you.
'hey there Vista, you suddenly are looking kinda hot...'
gimme a robot that refills for me then i'll be a happy camper, on second thought, just gimme the whole damn bottle
give me a way to empty my bladder without making a fool of myself at the table and ill be a happy camper
Supercollider? I just met her!...
And then they built the supercollider.
Something tells me this was Steve Balmer's idea!
And he probably thinks this surface thing will make touch screens and PCs as we know them OBSOLETE too!
I tend to agree, if you are a really drunk you don't care much for computers, so keeping you drunk makes computers obsolete, and with them touch screens.
I forsee these stretching the length of a bar with games hefty drink prices in the next ten years. Tha'd be purdy cool, for a novelty.
Hell yeah, Microsoft, liquor me up!
Does it work equally well with darker fluids such as juices? And what about coctail glasses or wine glasses that have legs? It seems like a neat party trick until it works with any glass out of the box.
In theory the stem of wine/cocktail glasses, brandy snifters, and champagne flutes could be used as an extension to the prism. But you need to make the base is completely flat so there'd be no air pocket.
Also this system could possibly be thwarted by liquid/condensation on the bottom of the glass.
Maybe they should have gone with a tilt sensor, as the glass gets empty you tilt it more when you sip, when it reaches a certain angle you conclude it's getting empty, simple.
Sad face for craptastic Youtube bandwidth.
Yeah youtube has really been the suck as of the past two weeks or so.
Hmmm, how will this work with a wine glass?
Stem would act as an extension to the prism.
Who drinks wine at bars?
Anyone who likes to drink wine in public I should imagine. There are even bars where wine is the prodominant drink, I believe they're called.... wine bars.
Another answer is: the french.
what about if i want a different kind of drink other then the one that is in front of me..
Uhm, we are phasing out choice as a matter of fact, it's the new world order (stress the 'order', with a loud voice)
I'm pretty sure a bartender will come to you and ask you if you want something else to drink...not just OH HERE YA GO THE TABLE TOLD ME YOU NEEDED THIS! *pour* *walk away*..... It's a tool not a new system of getting drunk....The way a bar works will remain the same, just now bartenders will know when you need a drink and come to fill you up instead of flirting with the cute girl down the way.
I can see anti drink-driving people jumping on this.
*Flashy light appears under your drink*
Did you know, you've just gone over the drink drive limit?
*Plays gory video of a crash*
That could be you....!
wrong place post is in the wrong place
great, they deleted all the dup wrong posts...now all my posts are out of place :(
low rank FTW
Some pretty serious self-pwnage going on here...
just becuase you post it twice doesnt make it in the right place
post wrong once...and be forgiven....post wrong twice...and be a noob
oh common now....i cant keep up with you...your a machine
how much of a fail can one stand for one night? still funny tho
will the surface pay the bill as well, by reading the c card from my back pocket ? that's dangerous! and stealing! ..
may be it should alert the drinker (drunkard?) of consuming too many drinks in too short a time ;)
one more pl..how sick one can get?
one more pl..how sickening one can get?
How stable is it? I don't want to be finishing my beer then get it auto replaced by 12 creme de menthes
What would happen if you chucked up over one of these surfaces in a bar?
Are they easy to wipe down? Will it analyze the (ex-)contents of your stomach?
*danger mouse hurls over the surface*
*sad emoticon appears, though you can't see it for the vomit*
*staff are alerted to clean up, bouncer is alerted to move you to the kurb*
and they said microsoft isn't innovative *cough* apple fanbois *cough*
More MS innovation: http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/10/20/microsoft-patents-censoring
This is just another way to screw me out of more booze. Those prisms are just going to keep getting bigger while the amount of alcohol in the cup gets smaller :(
can this be integrated with a lap dance/table dance system?
This is awesome, automatic refills on drinks, without even asking! Alcohol poisoning and "wait, where's my underwear?" FTW!