I know…serious What The Crap…

I have to say, “It’s about time.” Honestly – this is one of the coolest looking products. Hopefully, you have been pretty much blow away by the coolness.
But…
Unfortunately – nothing …

Imagine turning on a Cubs game and the computer determines this, brings up player stats, instant replays…

Right Tracker on May 31, 2007 at 5:32 PM

Good news! This is already available if you have Windows Vista Home Premium and use the SportsLounge feature in Windows Media Center–all powered by FOX Sports.com

I hear that next year, SportsLounge will automatically keep track of your Fantasy Football Leagues as long as you have your FFL account on FOX Sports.com

Yes, I know this is all part of the Bill Gates’ New World Order plan to erode our privacy and civil liberties. I also know that this feature in Windows obviously sucks and would work flawlessly if only it was done by Apple and ESPN.

For everyone else: I’ve seen it. I’ve used it. It’s cool.

And Oswald is the only guy that shot JFK.

And Elvis is really dead.

This technology, coupled with voice recognition, could make for some awesome interactions. Imagine turning on a Cubs game and the computer determines this, brings up player stats, instant replays, and orders you a pizza. Lazy man’s dream!

Right Tracker on May 31, 2007 at 5:32 PM

You say… “brings up player stats, instant replays, and orders your pizza” …. but after your pizza gets there …. imagine having to move your pizza, beer, and pretzels so you can see the silly screen. Just doesn’t seem quite right, but time will tell.

This technology, coupled with voice recognition, could make for some awesome interactions. Imagine turning on a Cubs game and the computer determines this, brings up player stats, instant replays, and orders you a pizza. Lazy man’s dream!

Call me old fashioned if you like.

Maxx on May 31, 2007 at 4:12 PM

I can relate also. However, I do believe there are those who see that a promising way to control us and keep power. It’s sorta already here in a voluntary sense, blackberry’s and other PDA are just the start. As by the people I know who can’t live without them. To stay connected, with the collective.

Not really Maxx, after all, when President Hillary institutes the wealth redistribution and universal health care system, tyranny will be a thing of the past. Just see yourself like one of those clones in the Macintosh commercial.

Oh, and recognize sarcasm once in a while.

Kini on May 31, 2007 at 3:13 PM

Oh.. that was sarcasm… well OK then. And I’m glad because, personally I don’t look forward to the day the government requires everyone to implant electronic beepers up our butts so they can track up by satellite. Call me old fashioned if you like.

The check splitting thing will be great. For women. Real men don’t split checks.

One market this technology could very easily take off is Japan, where mobile phones are regularly used by the populace to pay for goods and services. To that market, Surface could massive appeal as a means to quickly and easily order and pay from any countertop space in a restaurant, bar, or store. It’ll take Europe longer to adopt this technology because their disposable income is so low that they can’t afford it.

We can afford it here in the USA, but it’s obvious that paying via mobile phone on a Microsoft Surface is part of the dastardly plan of Microsoft, the Illuminati, Karl Rove, and the New World Order to give us all numbers rather than names, GPS-enabled microchip tracking implants up our colons, and accelerate the apocalypse. Because, as you know, Microsoft embeds microscopic CCTV cameras into the LCD screens of every computer that runs Windows. They don’t call them “monitors” for nothing.

Wow, it’s so obvious now that Microsoft Surface + payment via mobile phones = Destroying American sovereignty and a switch to the Amero. Only Ron Paul can save us from this fate!

Then you look forward to absolute tyranny.
Maxx on May 31, 2007 at 2:47 PM

Not really Maxx, after all, when President Hillary institutes the wealth redistribution and universal health care system, tyranny will be a thing of the past. Just see yourself like one of those clones in the Macintosh commercial.

Oh, and recognize sarcasm once in a while.

ROTFL!

WastelandMan asks: “What happens if you sit on it :))))))”

You can email pictures of your butt to all your friends and relatives. And what’s more, you don’t have to worry about being fired for getting caught Xeroxing your butt at work! You can amaze your friends and relatives at the size and number of the pimples on your butt in the privacy of your own home and at NO RISK TO YOUR CAREER for leaving “stains” on the office scanning plate.

Isn’t this the best of all possible worlds? ;^)

Maxx asks what happens if you spill your cup of coffee on the “table.” The message block that would appear would look something like this?

You have spilled liquid on this table, shorting out the circuitry on the surface, totally ruining this computer. OKAY?

Okay, now THIS is the big important question that MUST BE ANSWERED before this product can go forward:

What happens to all the authors and publishers of those “coffe table books” that NOBODY reads, but are placed on the coffee table for decorative effect? Because, it is obvious that you won’t be cluttering up your fine, new, computer table with anything that covers the surface, ruining the “interface” with your other neato-keeno gadgets.

In other words, will the market for unread, big, bulky, glossy-papered, expensive DECORATIVE books collapse? Won’t this cause the economy to tank?

I see a new-Luddite rebellion arising with thousands of photographers, authors, editors, typesetters, copy checkers, printers, paper company sales people, etc., storming MS HQ looking for payback!

And, DON’T EVEN THINK OF PUTTING YOUR FEET UP ON THIS BABY, while you’re watching the Sunday afternoon football game, boys and girls!

sooooo….

What happens if you sit on it :))))))

It says, “Get your fat butt off me, lardo!” ;)

Alternatively, it could make farting sounds… XD

but how useful will it be five years from now when this baby finally hits the home-use market and everyone’s already carrying iPhones?

Did you not watch the videos? How many people can share an iPhone at one time? How many people can use the interface of an iPhone (or a desktop for that matter) at one time? The Surface is going to open up computing to being a group experience.

I would envision humans with microchips implants, much like dogs and cats are done these days with your bio, medical, wealth, all that stuff available for the table to read.

I for one, look forward to that reality.

Kini on May 31, 2007 at 2:00 PM

Then you look forward to absolute tyranny.