It's real-ish.

First off, they're talking about selling these for $10,000+ beans, they're targeting bars and movie theaters and such.

Second, I don't think the fancified 'put-your-camera-here-and-do-stuff' works.

But the touch-tech is real. Interestingly, it's not a touch screen. What they've got is cameras under the glass that see where you're touching.

Here's another demo

I'd rather have a ReacTable.

also WANT!

The put-your-camera-here-and-do-stuff thing could totally work: there are cameras that "have their own embedded web server built right into them so they can broadcast their signal to the local network (and out to the Internet) without a PC. They have their own IP address, so you can access them independently of anything else on your network."

Our grandkids are going to take these dealies for granted.

I like Capn's description "real-ish." There's some truthiness in that description of a device selling for $10,000, from a company that can't build reliable game cubes. Do buy the extended warranty.

Of course, these gizmos will be less than useless to cat owners, as the surfaces will be designated as cat recliners by the felines of the house.

Surely there's a market for automatically downloaded hairballs.

No, wait, my back hall rug does this already.

Seriously -- yes, this is well within the bounds of technology capability right now. I'm not surprised that Microsoft has a backroom development project of this ilk at all. Is it commercially viable? Not just yet.

But you can already see that M$ is moving toward "interfaceless" computing, with Vista's changes, and Longhorn's discarded file system. As Specklet says, our grandkids will take this for granted.

Our grandkids are going to take these dealies for granted.

Our grandkids? Why, Specklet, I had no idea!

as the surfaces will be designated as cat recliners by the felines of the house.

It would be fun to watch the cat freak out if the table lights up every where the cat touches it.

Oh. My. Fucking. God.

I WANT!!!! I don't care if it's not real - I will pretend.