Microsoft Surface!!!

12-Gauge said:
But how does it recognize the magnetic strip on a credit card with infra-red ???
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It doesn't necessarily mean what you saw is how it will work. You only saw them put the credit cards on the surface and start assigning each different meal to different cards. It might just be that they had to enter their card details into a system beforehand, or perhaps 3 separate bills will be printed. ;)
 
It doesn't necessarily mean what you saw is how it will work. You only saw them put the credit cards on the surface and start assigning each different meal to different cards. It might just be that they had to enter their card details into a system beforehand, or perhaps 3 separate bills will be printed.
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I suppose so.
 
Alot of it might well be done with RFID tags, alot of devices can easily be installed with one, or you can put them in yourself, obviously amybe not in credit cards, but phones it would be quite easy to assign and name a device
 
dragon2309 said:
Alot of it might well be done with RFID tags, alot of devices can easily be installed with one, or you can put them in yourself, obviously amybe not in credit cards, but phones it would be quite easy to assign and name a device
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yeah but you cant communicate with the phones storage via an rfid tag :D
:)
 
Rambo said:
It doesn't necessarily mean what you saw is how it will work. You only saw them put the credit cards on the surface and start assigning each different meal to different cards. It might just be that they had to enter their card details into a system beforehand, or perhaps 3 separate bills will be printed. ;)
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It seems to be just a concept at the moment, meaning that perhaps the cards they are using aren't supposed to be conventional magnetic strip cards at all, but some other (conceptual) form of card which is able to communicate with the table in some other way, whether that be infra-red, rfid tags, bluetooth, lasers, or maybe some form of mysterious microsoft magic?? :)

..fact is I think they are just trying to show off potential applications, and not actually using a working model, or prototype.
 
just imagine the medical applications this technology could have. Imagine viewing real time 3-D xrays of patients...

MS is doing something that may or may not take off, I know that when I go out for drinks I'd rather have a person interact with me rather and a machine. I mean there are so many factors that come into play.

I also think that some of the applications of this technology will be very practical and some will just make humans look extremely lazy.

anyways it is way too early to say what they will become.
 
12-Gauge said:
I see. We must abandon this technology or else aliens will think that we are all couch potatoes :D
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No, its more like the guy who has a remote for everything. You know the people who want remote control pants because they are so lazy they can't put on their own pants.


Plus who knows it could make us, as a race become even more socially awkward than we already are with less and less human interaction.
 
Last night I was looking at the Mac Mini computers and then I saw the Surface. Isn't it weird how Apple is all about small and Microsoft is all about big? :D Does it run Windows?

~Jordan
 
Those are some awesome ideas right there, I would be right into that if you could use it as a monitor, think about it, set it up so that when your using your pc to game and other stuff you could have it on a 90 degree angle, and then when you want to do some tricky stuff with it you flop it flat onto the table.

To be hounest that technology will become very promenent in exclusive offices, restraunts, and things like that.

Kent.
 
set it up so that when your using your pc to game and other stuff you could have it on a 90 degree angle, and then when you want to do some tricky stuff with it you flop it flat onto the table.
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That would be awesome! It would be like the best of both worlds.
 
It looks about retarded, why do they keep targeting the 'family ppl'? Why not the gamers, Microsoft hasn't done a thing for us, as gamers. They need to make a gaming OS.
 
INTELCRAZY said:
It looks about retarded, why do they keep targeting the 'family ppl'? Why not the gamers, Microsoft hasn't done a thing for us, as gamers. They need to make a gaming OS.
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So So So True.

It would come with all the games in the world rofl.

Kent.
 
In the film "The Possibilitys" Does anyone know where that beat is from I really like it.

Kent.
 
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