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Modder builds his own coffee table PC, your coffee table still sucks
While we wait for those Microsoftees to pull it together and get real with a shippable version of Surface, we can enjoy the valiant efforts of modders like Xylomn. This guy built his very own touchable coffee table PC with a 24-inch display and a ceiling-mounted camera for tracking hand motions. Since it's part of his dissertation for his software engineering degree, Xylomn also worked up some custom software which allows users to beam media to the PC via Bluetooth, and then geotag it on a touchable map. The table allows for multiple users at once, and the interface part of the software rotates automatically towards whoever is grubbing up the display at that point.[Via Geeky Gadgets]
Stephen Johnson's Coffee Table PC
Just face it, Stephen Johnson has a cooler coffee table than you. While you've been busy finding large and colorful books full of puppies and/or Oprah Winfrey to stack on top of yours (OK, maybe that's just us), Stephen Johnson has been building the "ultimate" Media PC inside of his mod-inspired table, and it looks pretty darn sweet. The Coffee Table PC is featured in this month's issue of T3 magazine, and includes a TV tuner, a 160GB HDD, a special LCD for displaying the weather, and is liquid cooled to keep things nice and quiet. There's also WiFi for streaming your media wirelessly, but the £2500 starter pricetag ($4765 US) is enough to send us scurrying back to the relative safety of our collection of kitschy books.
