Microsoft's New Surface

The Future now

Back in college I heard about the "Surface" technology.  It was a tablet surface the size of a table and the surface was so intelligent that is could detect any thing that was placed on it and or was programmed to. The technology seemed unreal but awesome at the same time.

The technology that I am talking about was Surface Table by Microsoft. The advertisements that I saw at the time was from the Microsoft Surface promo website. They made the table smart to be used in a restaurant or in a home. The surface of this table table could sense anything that was placed on it and display information about that was placed on the surface on the screen.

1st Example: You are at a New High Tech restaurant and all the tables in the restaurant have Surface systems. You come in and are seated by the host. The host walks away after touching the surface with her card and entering a number of guests on the table, but doesn't hand you or your guest any menus. Then you see the table come up with menus and a commercial of the latest dish that restaurant has. You are prompted to select a drink from the touch screen and also your appetizers and meals. Then shortly after you had made your selection what what you wanted to drink a waitress is finally present and delivers your drinks. Once the glasses are placed on the Surface there will be a ring around the base of the glass that identifies what is in the glass. (say its Ice Tea, unsweetened and your is a sweet tea) you could also see the surface detail automatically as you start to get low on your drink that you will be prompted for a refill (Yes or No) and once you make you selection you waitress comes again to fill you up.

That same tech is seen again if you ordered a Pizza or a hamburger and there would be a ring displayed on the table to show what it is that you ordered... plus if the nutrition facts were available you could see that as well.

Paying you bill would be easy as well all you would have to do i place your credit or debit card on the sure in a precess your transaction at your table with out giving you card to the waiter.

2nd Example:  You get home and place your Keys cellphone and wallet on the surface in your hall and walk to you living room and sit down to another surface device. you tap the glass to wake the surface and you will be promoted with a list of connected devices that are on the Surface in your house and you could instantly have access to your photos on your cellphone or the contacts list or emails. You could identify where you wallet was left on which surface in the house or what key are on the table in the hall. You could control the TV and Lighting and other Smart devices in your home with any surface in the home.

Security

Granted most of this stuff that I mentioned was not all on the commercial. But I'm sure that you would be able to do all that I had mentioned. Maybe its creepy to you. But security could be implemented. Say a finger print scanner or retina scanner on the surface. You could lock your devices so that they could not be accessed from the surface. I'm sure that many people would be worry of privacy issues that could arise or theft. But at the same time all of these things would be looked into I can guarantee you they would have too.

This was back in 2007-09 when I first saw this technology or something like it. But now the "Surface" has come to light again. Microsoft have made and even small device much easier to transport and looks a lot like the iPad by Apple. I just wonder if this thing can do half the stuff I talked about above. Who knows, but we will find out.


Any thoughts? Comments? What do you think?