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
posted Jun 14th 2009 2:28AM
that's pretty sick
sick?
that is cool
Yeah, like Ebola sick.
It's so sick, I caught a cold.
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.
Oh no you didn'
Its like a shittier Surface...
for how much? only $20 you say? sure i'll take one
I'll take two.
They'll announce it at $200, then release it at $350, then make it progressively more expensive as time goes on.
I'll take eight!
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!
"OBJECT TOO SMALL TO COMPUTE"
It would probably tell you to go outside or to grow up.
It'll show you a commercial for Enzyte
Probably just return the temperature of your sausage and highlight the perimeter with some text scrolling around.
These replies are awesome. Made my day. :)
I bet it'll sound off the alarm and list all sorts of stuff like Peyronie's Disease, Phimosis,Paraphimosis, and Hypospadias.
It would highlite your meat dagger and open a WebMD link for Priaprism.
It'll probably activate parental lock.
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 .. :-))
It show a blooper reel of your self. . . .beating it. . .
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?"
Activates 'hot coffee' mode?
youre a disgrace to my name
Last ejaculation: 2hours 24minutes ago
Now we really know how the Cyclons caught that virus...
I don't drink Coffee. Will there be a plugin for tea?
it would activate a virus scan
I'm Sorry Dave...
SO, hot coffee, you say...
DO WANT i can see those linux guys now with the coffee temp checker via terminal
Honey, would you pass me some sugar and a script for temperature measuring, please...
"Sorry boss, I gotta run home, my coffee's getting cold."
You spill something on it. "Clean that up. I don't come cheap you know."
I'm sure that table is water proof.
a non-waterproof table. big no no
well i guess you can't argue with the title
the software is kinda ugly though, and jumps around a lot.
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
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!!!
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.
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.
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.
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"
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/
The GUI is ugly as hell, as with everything graphics related to Asus...
It sure looks better then my current digital interactive table.
where are the apple fan boys?
Apple hasn't invented this, yet. When they invent it, it'll be invented by Apple.
Lonely?
the microsoft surface technology i filmed during a barcamp last year:
http://vimeo.com/2176754
it's pretty much the same thing.
Those claiming that this is Microsoft Surface based may wish to take a look at the fiducials used for the reactivision opensource software:
http://reactivision.sourceforge.net/
The symbol on the underside of the "hard-drive" is clearly a reactivision fiducial...
Funny how people put just iphones and apple folders on the table.
If you sneeze on it, it'll tell you whether you have the swine flu, the rhinovirus or allergies.
We're sorry, this isn't a virus that can be identified by our global database. However, from a general analysis of its chemical properties and a pseudo-comprehensive simulation of its workings an interaction with human tissue, we are 92% certain it is a highly contagious hemmoragic fever with a 99.5% mortality and a complete cycle less than 72 hours in duration. It appears resistant to UVA, UVB, and UVC radiation, as well as colloidal silver solutions, and may be transmissible by any medium. [ Cancel ] [ Okay ]
*Cancel*
This button does nothing. Humanity is doomed.
(( DONT PANIC ))
wait(3600).
display("...Just Kidding\.").
refer_to_eula.
display analysis_results.
end.
2 seconds later a security bubble inflates around you as the CDC is called. :P
I don't get it. We saw a real application running on Surface that shows the exact same stuff. Phone displaying data.... Digital cameras showing their photos.... And I think it wasn't a video, it was an actual application...
yes, but this is probably a lot cheaper and a lot more accessible.
This table looks bigger though.
it's to save us from neck strain of surface
Just like your mama.
>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.
beautifully said.
This is not the future!
As you can see the objects use images on the back to identifie themselves to the table.
Which means the values are static!
It would been awesome and future material if they used RFID's instead and use REAL values of the object instead!
No, The object definition is static, the contents dynamic and could be read via bluetooth, for example for the phone.
The object definitions would (should?) simply define the object type,eg phone, usb drive etc. However, until all hardware supports remote indexing I'd guess that, for example, the hard drive would display that contents from the last time it was connected.
@Robijntje007: Of course this is not the future! It is only a demo how it COULD be some day. Of course now it works with markers at the bottom of the objects. It is a concept right now of course!
At one point it wouldn't even work with markers... it was all just a dream, but here we are today lol
I feel old
Of course... ;)
I want it Now!
That's what she said.
I want whoever is in that avatar now :)
i really liked the phone design , is it also a concept yet or a production phone
That hideous giant calculator phone? Maybe it was a production model in the early 90s.
The word is "concept." Conception is like... getting someone pregnant. Jesus. I'm going back to Giz.
Looks like someone found the reacTIVision source code! ( http://reactivision.sourceforge.net/ )
I don't think this is very practical in the real world. I'm looking at my desk right now and even if I clean up the general clutter there's still not enough surface to display all that info without becoming a mess. I mean I have my camera, cell and touch, all withing a few cm of each other - if each one had a bunch of stuff displayed around it I wouldn't be able to really read the data 'cause it would overlap. I imagine this is the case for a lot of people.
That was what I was thinking, certainly a majority of people have tons of stuff on the desk obscuring any info displayed on the surface.
I guess you need two desk in that future, one to use as desk and one to show off.
Useless Experience?
Looks like crap. Bad/cheap Microsoft Surface rip-off if you ask me.
Can do the exact same thing at home now. Got several milk glass desks overhere. Take a cheap beamer.. rfid tag scanner and make some 'futuristic' animation.
Contrast is soooo bad.
Yeah you could but nobody would even hope you might manufacture it, whereas asus is a big manufacturer you see and you might see some tangible spin-off from this.
If you have to react.. use your brain and don't post a pointless b*llsh*t comment.
That looks cool, and some of it is, but I bet it would get annoying fast.
Some of you don't get it, do you? Stuff like this is designed for business (conference tables, sales counters, restaurant tables) - not for your house, so clutter dones't even figure in this thing. Coffee temperature? Think about a serving counter. Don't wanna scorch your little mouth, now, would ya?
Sooner or later people realize that the key to getting things done is simple, comfortable interfaces with as few distractions as possible but with the ability to get whatever information you need and get whatever you need done with as few interactions as possible. Last thing I need is a spinning kaleidoscope next to my coffee.
I remember seeing something like that in Macross Frontier, haha.
Granted there may be a couple things that may be useful for companies and stuff...
But who cares about that anyway, people want this "future stuff" in their homes.
imagine if you have sex on it , and the table would display something like:
1) fake orgasm
2) fake boobs
3) other semen detected
4) she's not your wife, she's your neighbour, proceed?
5) one more time?
bla bla bla..
and then the table got spywares & started advert pop up on everything u put on it. damn.
Speaking of format wars, just so it's said: screw blu-ray.
How useless is this? I don't want every bit of information thrown at me like bricks. If I want information, I'll ask for it.
I want my table to tell me to put out the trash and do the laundry.
very very cool.
You should see something like this become pretty common in the future.
If not on a table top perhapes you toss a itme next to your tv and the same information pops up.
http://www.renogeek.com
"Nice" concept, horrible execution
Those graphics are way too old to something "futuristic"
Look they made stuff with and EGA display ;p
And i said nice concept just because it´s a nice concept,, but they gotta work hard with that horrible gui and definitely show some real use functions for it , since they just played a video of 100% basic functions...
and wtf would i like to know the temp of my coffee ? and i don´t want a machine that heats up my coffee because i only like it fresh :)
Cubicle version: Just how long has that coffee been there? If I were to drink it anyway, would I get sick?
I wish right now was the future. You know why? Because the future is awesome.
The similar idea can be checked here: MemoICON:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa8QnozK7oE