Seamless Experience at the Asus Booth @ Computex 2009 - English

[xTheDeathSaintx]

is it strange the only thing i found valuable on that table is that it tells me how hot my coffee is???

[devinerhythms]

wow coffee technology ftw

[BikutaHo]

that is really cool 

[jaimetrevino420]

why do you care so much for the comments ? blah blah blah have a laugh.

[kenzster]

Lame video

[Robbaz]

If i take a shit on this table will it tell me how warm my shit is and what i ate yesterday?

[DomGiuca]

@Robbaz So much win in this post.

[evisceratedcake]

This will revolutionize my Starcraft playing.

[muksliavoy]

i want one of these on my face

[pirtea]

if you crack it ? you pay 1 milion again?

[RiseofFooDos]

I thought this was microsoft surface...

[rivengle]

except not as smooth an OS. flashes right up, no smooth transition....awell. I still like surface better. By the way, its already out to the commercial market.

[evisceratedcake]

Does Surface give you gratuitous details about your coffee? I think not.

[mythosminion]

mmmm ....i dont need this to show me my cofee temp...i think my mouth knows if its too fucking hot or not......

if i want to check my contact list ...i'll just look on my phone.

i can just plug my external hardrive into my computer thnx

[adamjlynch]

Yeah. And who needs washing machines and color TV, anyway? We were doing just fine without them!

[SgtH3nry3]

As long as it doesn't really use NFC+Bluetooth/DLNA or something similar it's not interesting.

Same with Microsoft Surface, nice idea. But how on earth will it interact with other devices?

[Jasoco]

Apparently every single device in the world would be designed with a special "bar code" identifier. Notice the black design on the bottom of the "external HD". When the camera under the screen sees a special code, it identifies it and displays the appropriate information around the devices outline. Quite simple really, but it all depends on the object having the right codes.

If these companies visions came true, all devices would need to have this code, or it wouldn't work.

[thengel24235]

think of current standards, i.e. usb.

should happen eventually.

[themapplz]

Yeah this is merely reactivision... easy

[SANNAFABICH]

what is this shit, back to EGA colors?

[mikosoft]

EGA was the shit

[sgfox]

Seriously, why would someone want to have a spinning info around a coffee cup saying "coffee" and the temperature of it?

[hellsangle33]

Because its fucking cool!

[Ilikeurmusic]

@0:25 One can see they're cheating with fiducial markers. Not even rfid ones. Still proof of concept

[NewGadgetsDE]

OF COURSE it's a proof of concept! Who said that this is final?

[travisowens]

The speed at which the items display (the HD contents and the phone content) is proof of that, but some people are just so clueless sometimes.

[UrzaTheTyrant]

This is obviously a proof of concept, and is not actually a functioning model.

Nonetheless they have some great guys working in R&D.

[acali24]

did u happen to see the back of that hard-drive they had??? This works now its not a big real..the screen has sensors wwhoopy doo

[gold5225]

I want One scratch that I want one for every room in the House :) this looks sick!

[mroute]

nossa até café aquece

[cwagner021]

How could this possibly recognize that the bottom of a hot cup contains coffee? I call shenanigans.

[acali24]

your not thinking hard enough...maybe its weight+temp+dimension of cup=enough info to know its coffee..it might just be temp and the coffee mug.

[Cormin]

your thinking too hard.. what about hot tea in a coffee mug (which it is normally served in)

[acali24]

HOT TEA is thinner than coffee which would weight close to what Hot water would be...coffee's weight is slighly more since it's consistancy is a lil thcker...were talking grams here...

[Cormin]

yeah.. but then you would have to have the correct amount of liquid.. exact to the drop.. who does that?

[acali24]

the pressure on the bottom of the cup depending on the amount of liquid that was in the cup..

[irishdigitaldiver]

Probably RFID chip in the mug, I doubt the table can actually tell if its coffee

[RBNclan]

Naw, i think that whats displayed is just temperature. Maybe the table senses heat?

[4dimensions]

cool!

[klaatu42]

It's all theoretical. And I don't know about you... I like to get away from my computer. I'm not going to buy a special electronic screen table thing for each room. Get real!

[acali24]

lol what wrong you dont believe in technology? This is real and working tech not a theory that you prolly base your life on.

[bishopdante]

this is pretty lame. Just look up reactivision, it's been out for years now. Open source, you need a webcam, and a projector. That's pretty much it.

What a load of non-functioning not exactly innovation. Wonder how much the studio charged ASUS for this stuff? I see some scammage.

Umm, how does it know how hot the coffee is?

[mugupo10]

Minority report....

[onethatactuallyexist]

Yup. Pretty alarming for some reason.

[clodoveo13]

Men, that's neat and all, but they seriously need to change the design team for their gadgets and user interfaces.... =S

[Chri1982s]

Looks like crap. Bad/cheap Microsoft Surface rip-off if you ask me.

Can do the exact same thing at home now. Got several milk glass desks overhere. Take a cheap beamer.. rfid tag scanner and make some 'futuristic' animation.

Contrast is soooo bad.

[shomval]

well it cant be exactly the same, this looks a whole lot nicer than Microsoft's one , it can scan paper on the table and send it directly to your computer (no more scanners!) , you can actually interact items with the table than just a huge multi touch table, it doesn't matter if its a rip off , they did a very good job of improving it

[space901]

If it kills scanners, I'm for it.

[RealSkyDiver2]

can't be as bad as the bj your mother gives...

[Utharas]

This would make a great computer desk, especially for those who use the computer professional, for like art and such. Would allow the user to like sync hot keys, and other useful things.

[TheReapersSon]

Knowing ASUS, the table's hardware itself will be solidly designed; however, the software drivers for the table will cause it to malfunction horribly.

ASUS needs to stick to hardware only and leave the software to the professionals.

[shomval]

how do you know it will malfunction?

[nisetsu]

ASUS should fire whoever decided to show this crap.go around showing it when it actually works.

[musback]

Please show me something better which you created. Yea... It's easy to complain. Let's see if you're still complaining when you're using this (prototype) descendant in the year 2016 to read the information of your anger-management pills on a table like this.

[nisetsu]

I will get back to you as soon as ASUS R&D team hires me.

[mrsneakypat]

Did you see the coffee?! That's incredible!

[NewGadgetsDE]

? Everything alright with you?

[015159978732]

thats such a cheap copy of microsoft table!

[TubeFleak]

Now you know how it is being a Macfan ;)

[nhall87]

"microsoft surface", not table.

[no1Joeno1]

It's a good thing. It means competition.

[shomval]

correction: it is a improved copy of the Microsoft table

[015159978732]

if it would be improved it wouldnt be so buggy like that

[r3v4n23]

Time of Eve

[g1011999]

there is a camera under the table, and recognize the pattern under objects,

so that's a concept demo instead of working one.

[NewGadgetsDE]

I think we all know that :)

[nokarakeeb]

Yes! Finally! I always wanted to know how hot my coffee is. Too bad McD's didn't have one of these when they got sued for serving hot coffee.

[zkyevolved]

Cool!

[wes386]

wow...that's a horrible future..i think i could have made that in about 10 minutes of hard work. come on guys, work a little harder

[knightnz]

10 minutes? Wow, you should call NASA!

Looks pretty cool to me, although it does rely on your desk not being covered in other junk.