Remember those Atari pub games, built into the top of tables? Well, now its moved a whole stage further, with prototype systems like the reacTable and the Popular Mechanics coffee table project at Microsoft looking at ways to use surfaces as part of the computing model. There's a short video about this, one showing a musical instrument and the second illustrating how you can put, say, a camera down on a table and the photos in it pop out onto the glass surface. they can be scaled and manipulated and then shuffled into, say, a mobile phone.
The musical instrument is real but the rest of the technology is really a teaser prototype at the moment, but does have interesting possibilities, somewhat like the display technology used in films like Artificial Intelligence.
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