i swear, sometimes it's like i'm over at myspace.

Paradise

@Munch: *clap, clap, clap*

Paradise

Sometimes I read, and then it makes my head hurt, and then I just feel sorry for nutbastard.

GeekyNerdGuy

@carmen: Yeah, but I lost you to a better man. Luckily you've posted a lot of pictures of yourself lately... I haven't completely lost you - it felt like you were there. The only down side is that I'm out of Kleenex. On the plus side, I've got a grip like a pitbull now.

Munch

I can't watch the commercial, I'm at work, but still standing behind Chen. "How well does vomit come off of these things again?" @ just the idea of the thing

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

@Munch: GOD, I wish I could laugh...but I suppose no point in laughing when something or someone isn't funny. :)
But I know you have low self-esteem ever since you lost me to Nutbastard so lemme stroke your ego. HAHAHA MUNCH YOU ARE HILARIOUS! lmaoooo..

hehe..that was a bit tickelish

carmen

Ah, finally, something to take all the pain and risk out of finding romance. Thanks, Microsoft!!!

stryder100

In my extensive experience, hot chicks at a Vegas casino are all about the techno gadgets. I remember once talking to this model once about how the HSDPA on my AT&T phone had at least s0% higher upload than the EVDO on her Verizon BBerry and then . . .

Oh wait, that never happened.

Canoehead

I bet she can multi-touch that screen without using any hands....

Y2KGTP

This idea has been done much better, and successfully, for years at Remote Lounge in NYC: [www.remotelounge.com]

permissionmag

"in we distribute"

sorry...

Ariel_Wollinger

The Rio casino is supposed to be Brasil themed, but I never understood where they got the idea that during carnival in we distribute beads as in Mardi Gras... Bad research, just as the bad actors hired to portray brazilians in lost ( with the exception of Rodrigo Santoro that is brasilian...)

Ops, the surface? Oh, I forgot, I have nothing to say about it.

Ariel_Wollinger

That's pretty cool. Later that night they can use the map feature to see where the nearest VD Clinic is.

Dirk

... What could be hotter than a mystery babe sneaking up behind you and slipping her IUD in your drink?

/I'll stick with the old-fashioned Diesel LED bait... [gizmodo.com]

ANoel

*speechless*

92BuickLeSabre

Woohoo going to vegas next Thursday. Usually go two or three times a year. But who goes to Rio anymore?

dangj307

@Munch: Good point. Maybe then, I would be mad.

Jimbuck

Did anyone notice at the end of the video the small print said, "Must be 21 or over to enter the iBar." Are you kidding me? the iBar? Is this the devil child from a three-way tryst of Microsoft, Las Vegas and Apple?

bosskev

Surface can talk wirelessly to some cameras and download your pics and videos, right?

I see a whole lot more "candid" half-naked photos of party girls ending up on the web very soon...

EQC

While this commercial looks cheesy here, if you saw this ad running on a display at the Rio, you wouldn't even think twice.

This style of commercial fits in perfectly with other "in house" commercials you see running inside the hotel portion of the casinos.

Taken in the proper context, it not nearly as bad.

Bender

Surface is cool, but that video is just annoying...

I still want them to put Surfaces in airports for flight tracking.

tophtucker

This kills half the reason people watching in Vegas is a blast. One of best parts of being a local is going to bars on the strip and watching guys strike out with bad lines. How am I going to see the virtual rejections? Kill Joys! I wonder if you can throw a drink on them virtually or flip them off?

I really can't wait to see someone drop a glass through it :)

marc_wtih_a_c

"How well does vomit come off of these things again?" Thanks Jason, exactly what i would have said.

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

neat concept. terrible advertising. MS really needs to import some new jobs for their advertising department.

Der182

A marketing department should be put to death for this. As should the actors, the wardrobe people...

If I were Billy Gates there would be some heads a-rollin

atuck

I just see a black square. ABP+ works for me!

SigmundTheSeaMonster

@carmen: At least their boobs aren't saggy.

Munch

@carmen: Yeah... I'm with you, I just got mad watching it too. I don't know why, I know they are just actors...but still! For a second I thought I fell asleep and woke up to an episode of V.I.P.

dynamicD

Ughhhh... Douche chills setting in... oooch.

That video was so lame, but I would love to have that at my local bar.

got sunscreen?

JB

@mordecaidrake: I don't think you get it. I hate MS for more than this commercial...I just now have even more reason to ditch this crap. The commercial was bad. Bad acting makes me mad, especially when she thinks she is soooo sly

@glass: Bad acting-makes me really upset. Don't ask, just does.

HECK YES, best 4K I ever spent,lol.

carmen

Yeah I can see a lot to get upset about there...?

(meds)

strider_mt2k

I love that blonde... surface too

kibets

Is this the beginning of a porn movie?

apeguero

Well, I guess this answers the age-old question of whether there is anything more sleazy than living inside an AT&T store. I can see this being really popular since it is my dream to go to Vegas and flirt with people -- through electronic gadgetry.

Monty

can not wait for the parody of this, where they take out the music, and put in their own voices i can see it now
" now with the microsoft surface, you can give buy hot girls with wind blowing in their hair at all times compliments, and drinks, with out even talking to them"

takemetoyourtoaster

@carmen:

it was a pretty funny commercial... i cant see why someone would get upset over it.

but hey, if it helps you get a macbook.... ;}

glass

OK... so the MS Advertising MOFOS don't know wot they're doing when it comes to advertising... that's never stopped them before.

Yeah, they keep making them ads about SURFACE focusing on businesses and not for home users, which in a few years everyone will be using touch screen anyway and prices for the damn thing will sure as hell come down... but.. you know... that's just how the MS guys are... if they wanna focus on businesses and risk keeping the prices high and also risk the potential of a failed product... lol... well you know...again...that's MS for ya...LOL!!!!

xint

Am I the only one who doesn't give even the slightest tiny bit of rat shit about MS surface tables?

shiftyeyedgoat

your buying a macbook cuz the Microsoft surface table is flipping sweet? makes perfect sense.

mordecaidrake

Surface has a purpose, baby!!

Nice!!!

yoshi

I cannot take this.
THIS IS WHY I AM BUYING A MACBOOK!
2002 called, bitch, they want their haircut and dress back.
I seriously just became really upset watching that commercial...where they actually paid?

carmen

There is something incredibly lame about that video. I can't quite figure it out, but the whole thing just reeks of being made by someone who has no idea what Vegas, partying, and sexy girls are really like.

UgoBogdan

Must be a slow day at Giz.

bms

@beekerstudios: "... here a dork, there a dork, everywhere a dork dork."

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

DOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRKKKKKKKSSSSSSSS!

beekerstudios

@carmen: After grinding my teeth subjecting myself to that video swill, I think I'll buy a nice accessory for my Macbook lol.

Dregs and the City FTL if you ask me.

Microsoft needs to develop Hungry Hungry Hippos for the Surface, so at least I have something to laugh at in the videos, rather than have my aura vomiting out what's left of my tolerance for proverbial cheese.

Kaiser-Machead's got LindsayJoy's cookies on the SuperDrive

That guy has a really weird "I'm gonna tie that bitch up and dump her body in the sand" look @ 1:42.

Stalking has gone so tech! That table is going to revolutionize date rape.

xXxRHINOxXx

That had to be super advanced tech for the 90's.

That's when this video was recored, wasn't it?

Falsoman

@carmen: I wish more people had your sentiment. But clearly, you're not a fanboi(girl). If you were you wouldn't buy anything mac while Stevus is gaunt looking. Gaunt Steve = shitty Apple. and thus their stock.

qbrad

LOL @ the irony. The bar is called the iBar :D

Ireland

@Paradise: Don't worry. Once you're married you get much better at it.

GeekyNerdGuy

Man this makes the surface table look cool. now all I need is a Casino, some lights, some girls, and some techno music.

Joseph

@Paradise: What's that?

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

@Chromeo: that was definitely a *clap, clap, clap* even though Munch was joking. i have the same illogical hate, although not for microsoft.

i'll just keep wishing for an ignore button. i mean it's not like i don't try to ignore it on my own it's just tough when it covers my entire viewable area.

Paradise

@ANoel: I just figured if it was good for blowing your nose it was good for blowing your hose.

Munch

If you were bored and lonely in a bar I could see people playing the games just like they play the video crack games that are installed at most bars, but if you're there and having fun with your friends, I really don't see anybody playing pinball with their friends.

Messaging other tables would be fun, especially if it was anonymous, so you could screw with other patrons.

What would really be sweet in a Vegas bar like that would be if you could pull up the security cameras and watch people around the bar/casino.

GeekyNerdGuy

@Munch:
Dude, this isn't way back when you could chop wood whenever and however munch... ditch the Kleenex.
Use washable bamboo or better still magazine pages instead..

ANoel

@Paradise:

Is that clap clap clap, or Fap fap fap?

These are the days of our Gizmodo lives...

Chromeo

1. If girls are that drunk they will never have the reflexes to play those games so well.

2. That table of 3 girls would have been attacked by the three guys.

3. Yes some hot girls are sluts and get horny, but they would simply walk up to a guy if the guy seemed to be eying and start making out with them. I've been left stranded in a club many times by my girlfriends doing this. And they were *hot*.

4. *This makes no sense for Vegas* unless they are charging per game, they want to get people into the casinos. But the Rio is a failing hotel.

5. This was clearly not created with Final Cut Pro on a Mac.

@carmen:

MACBOOK! So all my comments about you getting into the Apple spirit with me have swayed you? The fact that my Mac is into S+M? The fact that I can download as much porn as I want and not worry about malware and a virus? Oh I'm so happy, maybe we can do a Mac promo for Giz together!

LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M

this sounds like a phone sex ad

HawkSkater0

@Paradise: Yeah, at this point I actually have more trouble getting the brain to listen when most women are talking.

GeekyNerdGuy

uggggg. that was really sleazy. i just imagine ballmer shooting that commercial himself...creepy.

se.blackheart

@shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: i think my brain just exploded. teh interweb is a confusing place. i'm going back to ihasahotdog.com now.

Paradise

@Paradise: No, that was a poor reply attempting to make fun of 'myspace' and my age... I'm not very witty you know and often only make sense to myself.

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

@shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog:
it's probably best that you didn't follow my somewhat [poorly?] veiled dig at somebody. i'm not really in the mood to argue about it and besides i understand that it's not my right to moderate or dictate the commenters dialogue on here. i'll just keep trying to ignore it and keep hoping for an ignore button.

@GeekyNerdGuy: i hope so. would you consider yourself a guru? you've had a couple of them haven't you? :)

Paradise

On second though, needs more skittlebrow.

Kaiser-Machead's got LindsayJoy's cookies on the SuperDrive

Cool for about 15 minutes and then you're like, "oh wait, there are actually people in this bar and I can talk to them like in the 80s." And so you move on.

N@tedog

I dont want other people in a bar watching me and sending me messages. And who goes to a bar to watch someone 5 feet away with a camera, and text message instead of go up to them and talk? Im not the only one to talk to people in person at bars? right? right? please say right!!

HawkSkater0

Rio is lame.

The video might be a geek fantasy, but what loser would ever hit on girls with a MS Surface? The geek factor is through the roof, but it looks more like a soliciting for prostitution.

slstsang

@GeekyNerdGuy:

"Sometimes I read, and then it makes my head hurt, and then I just feel sorry for nutbastard."

why's that??

nutbastard 2.0 : banhammer edition

I found the dating sim part of GTA4 more realistic than the scenario M$ has outlined here.

The Lab

So its a computer, the size of a table, Does the computer have to be that big because windows 7 or what ever this touch screen thing runs on requires 200 gigs of ram min.

HawkSkater0

This is like a mentos commercial...just disgusting. I am at work and watched it without audio...if it was that lame without audio, I can only imagine...

sigep440

@GeekyNerdGuy: That was good, made me laugh

HawkSkater0

@nutbastard 2.0 : banhammer edition: You'll understand in about 6 months ... if it takes that long.

GeekyNerdGuy

@HawkSkater0: @N@tedog: Actually, most people spend most of their time in the bar posing ... look at me, look at me ... my shirt is so cool ... can you see my drink? Yeah, it's not a beer ... it's Grey Goose, by the way, can you tell? ... It's Grey Goose, and I have a sweet new haircut.

GeekyNerdGuy

I'd love to spend all day ripping on that lame add. But lets face it, next time I'm in Vegas I'm going to go play w/ the thing anyway.

Lazarus511

all the fun of staying at home on the computer... at a bar!

I wonder what happens when people start dancing on them?

iBar, more like "i= its B= Bad, A= advertising, R= Really"

HawkSkater0

@GeekyNerdGuy: I love my grey goose... But only because of the reactions I get from the waitresses who OBVIOUSLY want to take me home after counting the tips I so generously contributed to.

qbrad

@LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M:WE SHOULD! OK i'll come over and we can video tape ourselves with our Macbook pros...when I get it lol
@GeekyNerdGuy: Don't be an ass

carmen gets to see nutbastard in 7 days!

@GeekyNerdGuy: Your truth is pure effluence.

Kaiser-Machead's got LindsayJoy's cookies on the SuperDrive

While the MS surface is a nice piece of gear, this video should make it obvious that the Vegas bar is installing it for the sake of voyeurs . Top down cameras with zoom capabilities? Come on now...

grimjack

"Erase this crap and put video poker on these things!" in 3.. 2.. 1..

pashdown

We have replaced the "normal" Giz posters with whiny bitches. Let's see if anyone notices...

XeniaCanthus

wtf is this commercial supposed to do for me????

Slowride

SO(!) weak.

The AXE and Dove demographic meet :/

eddiearias