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This Is What Windows 8 Looks Like Running On A Coffee Table
Before the Surface was ever a tablet that we lusted after, it was the name of a device that looked like a table, worked like a table but had embedded on the top of it an enormous touchscreen. The Surface Table was rebranded as Microsoft PixelSense, and the rest is history. The original Surface Table used to run a bespoke version of Windows 7, but a Giz AU reader has gone and updated his to run Windows 8, and it looks pretty awesome.
Shopping For Clothes Is Still So 1.0
Today Gizmodo Australia attended the official Australian launch of the Samsung SUR40 table computer powered by PixelSense (also known as the Surface table), and I was shown a variety of things from frankly fantastic educational apps through to a crazy-awesome maps application. But by far the most interesting concept was one straight out of the future, and it could change the way you buy clothes if retailers cared about technology.
Your Chariot Awaits…Your Snacks
Imagine loading this table up with snacks on the top shelf and beverages on the bottom, then rolling it out to your immaculately decorated modern living room for some serious hedonism — maybe a long movie marathon or a serious gaming session. Sure, there are lots of glorified TV trays that can do that. But few do it with the grace and sophistication of the Chariot table.
3M Don’t Just Make Scotch Tape: Check Out Their Windows Surface Rival
Devices like the Windows Surface have been in development for what feels like an age, and delivered very little. Now 3M Touch Systems is showing off a 46-inch prototype touchscreen table at CES that allows up to 60 touch points, and sounds like it might actually be useful.
A Hidden Pool Table For The Modern Bachelor
There are few things that scream bachelor pad more than a pool table. And even the skeeviest single guy knows you gotta eventually class it up. That’s why this pool table by Fusiontable is so perfect. It’s a modern dining table with a hidden, convertible pool table underneath. Business in the front, party in the back.
A Coffee Table Fit For A Lumberjack King
Cox Speaker Table Combines Two Items, Ruining Both
This Cox speaker table is the sort of thing you buy when you have a lot of money but no time to consider how practical your overpriced baubles are. Who the hell wants a speaker that doubles as a table?
UnsTable Is a Perfect Place to Keep High-End Gear, Funerary Urns
By surrounding its thin (an hopefully sturdy) steel legs with movable blocks, the somewhat cleverly named UnsTable creates the illusion that it’s on the verge of collapsing. The novelty would probably wear off pretty quickly, and the table doesn’t have a great deal of mileage as a prank device. I mean, you’ve got to lure someone to your weird yellow desk, sit them down and have them scatter important, delicate items across its surface, just so you can sort of kick one of the legs to the side and make them think, for just a second, that their stuff would be broken. In any case, it’s an attractive table. Check out the animation below to see the the UnsTable in “normal” and “oh no!” modes. [Core77]
