ASUS 'Seamless Experience' is the best conception of the future we've seen in the past five minutes

Are you fully prepared to live in one company's most likely inaccurate and yet still totally awesome vision of the future? If not, check out the video after the break. ASUS tossed together its ideas into a "Seamless Experience" showing at its Computex 2009 booth. Apparently the future involves a lot of interactive countertops -- a sort of pervasive Surface-lite, which presents interactive, relevant info for objects placed on it. The tech also facilitates interaction between devices placed near each other, and can even capture data from a plain ol' piece of paper and integrate it into the system. Sure, it's been shown before, but we're sure once enough companies come up with this idea independently they'll be able to form two warring factions and fend off consumer adoption with a format war for years to come.

Read - ASUS PR
Read - Video from NewGadgets.de

[Ankit @ Jun 14th 2009 3:04AM]

that's pretty sick

[darkmax @ Jun 14th 2009 4:32AM]

sick?

[bublik @ Jun 14th 2009 4:40AM]

that is cool

[Ian @ Jun 14th 2009 9:24AM]

Yeah, like Ebola sick.

[Agent .25i @ Jun 14th 2009 10:41AM]

It's so sick, I caught a cold.

[m3tric @ Jun 14th 2009 11:59AM]

Eh...haven't we already seen a ton of these table top type presentations from Microsoft already. I don't get the point of this post. Maybe next Apple can show the exact same thing and claim they invented it like multi touch.

[cjschrissouth @ Jun 14th 2009 3:41PM]

Oh no you didn'

[Esteban @ Jun 14th 2009 8:25PM]

Its like a shittier Surface...

[danny @ Jun 14th 2009 3:11AM]

for how much? only $20 you say? sure i'll take one

[Blackstar @ Jun 14th 2009 6:51AM]

I'll take two.

[chefgon_ign @ Jun 14th 2009 9:51AM]

They'll announce it at $200, then release it at $350, then make it progressively more expensive as time goes on.

[Zoidberg @ Jun 14th 2009 10:11AM]

I'll take eight!

[Sam @ Jun 14th 2009 3:12AM]

More technology that goes nowhere. If I put my dick on the table, would it display? Holy-shit thats big. Or would it show me some porn? .... hmmm .... come to think about it, that would be freaken AWESOME!

[PedoJokerBear (aka Deeznuts) @ Jun 14th 2009 3:16AM]

"OBJECT TOO SMALL TO COMPUTE"

[Esc @ Jun 14th 2009 3:18AM]

It would probably tell you to go outside or to grow up.

[UnofficialPants @ Jun 14th 2009 3:19AM]

It'll show you a commercial for Enzyte

[shinrajp @ Jun 14th 2009 3:19AM]

Probably just return the temperature of your sausage and highlight the perimeter with some text scrolling around.

[Saad Rabia @ Jun 14th 2009 3:27AM]

These replies are awesome. Made my day. :)

[EDALBNUG @ Jun 14th 2009 3:34AM]

I bet it'll sound off the alarm and list all sorts of stuff like Peyronie's Disease, Phimosis,Paraphimosis, and Hypospadias.

[sentient.exe @ Jun 14th 2009 4:18AM]

It would highlite your meat dagger and open a WebMD link for Priaprism.

[darkmax @ Jun 14th 2009 4:33AM]

It'll probably activate parental lock.

[Eastman @ Jun 14th 2009 4:47AM]

finally someone who gets this .... !
hehehe

Jeez i mean big up to the Asus guys but honestly .. why the hell would i need to know how hot my coffee is .. i didn't need that info the last 30freakin years .. what's making my life better for knowing that NOW ?

My cellphone on the table and it displays my contacts and calender? guess what i got a Phone that does this, no need for that into on my table ..

i could go on but am bored ... gonna try that with my dick out now .. :-))

[~~Tito~~ @ Jun 14th 2009 6:41AM]

It show a blooper reel of your self. . . .beating it. . .

[Blackstar @ Jun 14th 2009 6:55AM]

When you slapped it on the table a little hologram of 'Clippy' the Office Assistant would say,

"So, I see you're trying to masturbate... do you need any help with that?"

[ED @ Jun 14th 2009 7:21AM]

Activates 'hot coffee' mode?

[Sam @ Jun 14th 2009 7:51AM]

youre a disgrace to my name

[Str1ker @ Jun 14th 2009 8:19AM]

Last ejaculation: 2hours 24minutes ago

[DaDuntaDah @ Jun 14th 2009 11:50AM]

Now we really know how the Cyclons caught that virus...

[Wormbolt @ Jun 14th 2009 1:00PM]

I don't drink Coffee. Will there be a plugin for tea?

[McFly @ Jun 22nd 2009 8:53PM]

it would activate a virus scan

[Brandon @ Jun 15th 2009 11:08AM]

I'm Sorry Dave...

[13xforever @ Jun 14th 2009 3:19AM]

SO, hot coffee, you say...

[digitallysick @ Jun 14th 2009 3:22AM]

DO WANT i can see those linux guys now with the coffee temp checker via terminal

[vadchen @ Jun 14th 2009 3:31AM]

Honey, would you pass me some sugar and a script for temperature measuring, please...

[Amun @ Jun 14th 2009 5:08AM]

"Sorry boss, I gotta run home, my coffee's getting cold."

[Johnathan @ Jun 14th 2009 3:27AM]

You spill something on it. "Clean that up. I don't come cheap you know."

[Kelvinyam @ Jun 14th 2009 5:00AM]

I'm sure that table is water proof.

[Sam @ Jun 14th 2009 7:53AM]

a non-waterproof table. big no no

[sinai @ Jun 14th 2009 3:29AM]

well i guess you can't argue with the title

[timm @ Jun 14th 2009 3:32AM]

the software is kinda ugly though, and jumps around a lot.

[nathandanielsn @ Jun 14th 2009 3:49AM]

So much for secrets with that stuff huh? Your kid walks in and thrown down his backpack and it pops up with a list of the porno mags in it, or the amount of uncompleted homework. Put your feet up on the table while you have company over and it alerts you that you forgot to shower that day

[Jon Doe. @ Jun 14th 2009 3:47AM]

So will the seamless experience office tell you that you have been let go and your job has been outsourced to *map pops up on screen and points to China* They will help you find a new job...*yellow pages opens to the Geek Squad* And they will get your resume out on the net for you after you drag it into your outgoing e-mail box *drags it on the table*

So please leave the building within 5 minutes *desk clears and bumps everything to your PDA as a yellow dashed line appears on the ground guiding you out of the building.*


What a fantastic and wonderful world awaits. I can't wait!!!

[MeowR- @ Jun 14th 2009 4:21AM]

Doesn't all that matter in what you said is that you lost a job? I don't understand how you would care where it was outsourced to.

[Jon Doe. @ Jun 14th 2009 4:53AM]

I picked a random spot. Actually not so random since China is becoming the new India for outsourcing as cost of living is going up in India. Someone apparently has a hard time reading tongue in cheek.

[Kelvinyam @ Jun 14th 2009 5:04AM]

No it doesn't work like that. It will order you a taxi (if you need one) when you place the you-are-fired letter from HR on that table. And all the emails in your BlackBerry that was put on the table will be deleted from your phone automatically.

[chuuchdizzle @ Jun 14th 2009 6:39AM]

that just reminded me of idiocracy, imagine a world where we're too dumb to know where China is "ehh it's that red country, we don't like"

[blackfeathers @ Jun 14th 2009 3:49AM]

what the article fails to mention is that it's microsoft surface technology used in the demo. at ces 2009, the nbc booth used the similar symbols under usb flash drive packaging. placed on top, it was used to identify what was placed on top of it and give a prize to a few people with the correct symbol.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackfeathers/3201899901/in/set-72157612611034962/

[loocas @ Jun 14th 2009 3:51AM]

The GUI is ugly as hell, as with everything graphics related to Asus...

[Arkenklo @ Jun 14th 2009 5:02PM]

It sure looks better then my current digital interactive table.

[purezerg @ Jun 14th 2009 3:57AM]

where are the apple fan boys?