Star Trek, anyone?

[regretfulfanboy]

I was perusing my daily interweb news sites and I came across this video about a new type of computer interface that Microsoft is developing. It takes touch screen to a whole new level. Anyone impressed by the interface for Apple's iPhone will be blown away by this. There are a few things which Microsoft got right here that I would like to

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[griton]

The funniest thing is that actual government agencies would be extremely reluctant to use them. Accidentally setting a sheet of paper that contained confidential information on a table with a camera underneath poses way too high of a security risk.

That's another cool thing that could be integrated. Hi-res scanners. a few medium to high resolution cameras under the surface could scan documents pretty easily. A printer could easily be integrated into the side of the table for quick photocopies. Suddenly you no longer need to cut out, position, zoom, repeat, and go through a bunch of scotch tape to combine documents on a copier: scan, drag, print, done.

The mirror would be hard to do as a true mirror, but would be ridiculously easy to implement as something like how the integrated cameras in the Macs can turn the monitor into a "mirror". But how many people would use a mirror at an angle and try to get interactive media on it. The biggest problem is that it currently uses a series of cameras which seem to need some distance behind the surface. It's got a ways to go, but I definitely like the idea.