Comments on: Video: Microsoft’s new coffee-table computer — remixed

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Mankind achieves destiny — handless, thought-controlled channel changer

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:06:48 +0000

[...] Exit question: Thanks to the clumsy, cumbersome brainwave skullcap, isn’t this really the Microsoft Surface of handless technology? [...]

By: Kaptain Amerika

Kaptain Amerika — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 07:58:16 +0000

anything with an “i” in front of the word means it’s for commies…

By: Tantor

Tantor — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:17:58 +0000

I want a handkerchief computer that looks something like those silk escape maps the WWII pilots were issued. Mabye it would be made out of nanotubes or something. It would fold up in your pocket but then go stiff and flat when you laid it out. And it would only cost a buck fifty so you could toss it away if you had to blow your nose on it or something.

By: Tim Burton

Tim Burton — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:42:45 +0000

ROFL. Of course, the cost won’t be $10K for long.

I’d much prefer the vertical version of this (less chance of spilling my drink on the screen :-)

steveegg on June 21, 2007 at 8:12 AM

Spilling a drink won’t be an issue. There are no cracks for it to seep through on the table.

By: naliaka

naliaka — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:01:29 +0000

This is what you get when no one you know has kids.
Bill Gates built a what? $220 million bucks house and then had to ask for a permit to add on an extra bedroom, cause they didn’t have enough for their two – count ‘em 2, kids?
They remembered the media room, the vast master suite, the state of the art electronics, the honking kitchen, the spa, the me-me-me-me-me delights, etc etc. etc. Bedroom? Kids? Hunh???
Saw a disclaimer for a super deluxe waterproof flashlight once:
The warrantee does not cover damage caused by grizzly bears or children under 5.

By: Microsoft’s new Big Ass Table computer « Absolute Moral Authority

Microsoft’s new Big Ass Table computer « Absolute Moral Authority — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:38:27 +0000

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By: chow

chow — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:54:23 +0000

ROFLOL, when you put it that way, why not buy “just a phone”. If you want to use the Internet, why not just but a really small light laptop?

This subscription nonsense is enough to drive you broke.

Linux rocks, download Ubuntu for your $400 lappy and be happy.

When is Microsoft actually going to do something new, rather than just copy what others do? Why I think that might be MS problem …

tarpon on June 21, 2007 at 8:30 AM

Or better yet. Download pclinuxos and get a linux disto that actually, uh, works.

By: cmay

cmay — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:09:55 +0000

My bad, “vertical” should have beem emphasized, not quoted.

AP, you gotta put in a preview feature.

By: cmay

cmay — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:08:41 +0000

You know, there must be something to all those folks buying bigger and bigger monitors. But all of a sudden Microsoft talks about including a big ass display in a piece of furniture we use everyday and it’s the most stupid idea ever?

greggish on June 21, 2007 at 10:19 AM

People are buying those bigger monitors and moving towards integrating internet, cable, telephone etc. This requires a

vertical

monitor. The last time I watched a movie at home, it was on a vertical monitor, not a horizontal mall kiosk with kids’ fingerprints and scratches.

This will have a niche market (e.g., mall displays, airline check in, video poker, dusty antique in someone’s garage), but it’ll hardly replace the PC.

By: right2bright

right2bright — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:14:08 +0000

I can see it in an office. On one corner lay a paper face down and it scans, and then you file.

I remember when using Lotus 123, when Excel came out with WYSIWYG, all of the bean counters claimed how stupid. All you have to do is learn the shortcuts, why you use icons? Excel will die, and Lotus will rule…WSIWYG, how stupid it will never sell.

By: Dread Pirate Roberts VI

Dread Pirate Roberts VI — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:34:58 +0000

Maybe if you could lay in it and it would vibrate…to relieve back tension..

By: James

James — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:27:06 +0000

But all of a sudden Microsoft talks about including a big ass display in a piece of furniture we use everyday and it’s the most stupid idea ever?

Because when someone wants to use it as a coffee table, someone else is going to want to use it as a computer.

Or if you live alone, you’ll have remnants of your last three dinners strewn across it.

By: Editor

Editor — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:23:58 +0000

But all of a sudden Microsoft talks about including a big ass display in a piece of furniture we use everyday and it’s the most stupid idea ever?

Pretty much, yeah.

By: greggish

greggish — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:19:10 +0000

I like the idea of a computer table. You know, there must be something to all those folks buying bigger and bigger monitors. But all of a sudden Microsoft talks about including a big ass display in a piece of furniture we use everyday and it’s the most stupid idea ever?

By: saint kansas

saint kansas — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:45:26 +0000

WastelandMan, that KMFMS site is da shizzle fo rizzle, but the old Power Computing ads pwn. Anyone else remember when computers (and synths) were deliberately made huge and clunky so people would pay money for them? "Hell, who's gonna pay a couple thousand bucks for a computer that small and light?"

By: RushBaby

RushBaby — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:40:18 +0000

I want the one I can staple to my wall.

By: jeffNWV

jeffNWV — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:17:51 +0000

Microsoft: Making the crap no one wants. From Zune to Surface. I think it speaks more to diversity. Everyone has or wants a smaller, sleeker device. We need to change the people’s perspective to accept devices that are uglier and clunkier than their contemporary counterparts.

By: WastelandMan

WastelandMan — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:13:39 +0000

Microsoft chews Old Gym Socks!

LINUX P0WNES!

Its a oldy but a goody!

KMFMS

Luves me some Pinguin!

-Wasteland Man.

By: paulmoreland.com » A Look At Micro$ofts "Table of the future"...

paulmoreland.com » A Look At Micro$ofts "Table of the future"... — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:13:18 +0000

[...] Micro$oft is talking about their vision for the future – a multimedia table. Here’s a humorous look at it. Language alert. If you’re easily offended by “modern” language – best stay away. I got this off of Hot Air. [...]

By: saint kansas

saint kansas — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:30:18 +0000

But, can you find the new Vent on it?

By: JackStraw

JackStraw — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:30:07 +0000

Ha.

8 days till iphone. It’s way cooler than Fred.

By: tarpon

tarpon — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:30:05 +0000

ROFLOL, when you put it that way, why not buy “just a phone”. If you want to use the Internet, why not just but a really small light laptop?

This subscription nonsense is enough to drive you broke.

Linux rocks, download Ubuntu for your $400 lappy and be happy.

When is Microsoft actually going to do something new, rather than just copy what others do? Why I think that might be MS problem …

By: rplat

rplat — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:28:55 +0000

Ah yes, Microsoft has done it again . . . I’ll bet it will be almost as popular as the “Zune”.

By: steveegg

steveegg — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:12:55 +0000

ROFL. Of course, the cost won’t be $10K for long.

I’d much prefer the vertical version of this (less chance of spilling my drink on the screen :-)

By: P. James Moriarty

P. James Moriarty — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:11:55 +0000

ya great, if your a young pretty microsoft type its great. But what about someone like me who has an extremely bad back and screams in pain when leaned over a table like that after only a couple of seconds? It looks good in advertisements for future tech, but it’s not practical as a everyday thing, or even a sometimes thing for me.