Your Next Coffee Table Could Be a Computer
by Leslie Meredith, Senior Writer, TechNewsDaily
17 November 2011 05:30 AM ET
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Imagine a 40-inch tablet set on four legs and you have the Samsung SUR40, a giant touchscreen monitor designed for hands-on collaboration. The touch-table is available for preorder beginning today for $7,600. While that's a hefty price tag, it's around half the cost of the original table launched three years ago.
The multitouch worksurface is aimed at the commercial market, including architects, doctors and other consultant-client centered businesses as well as educators and retailers. The horizontal full HD 1080p surface can track 50 points of simultaneous touch and can recognize objects. It's protected by a thin layer of Gorilla Glass, a Corning product favored by mobile-device manufacturers such as Samsung and Amazon for its light-yet-strong protective properties.
Microsoft is behind the engaging technology that runs off its Windows 7 operating system . The company launched its first surface computing device in 2008, used by AT&T at some of its retail stores. The new table is a whopping 17 inches thinner than first-generation units, made possible by replacing the bulky tracking cameras with tiny sensors embedded in the display pixels themselves, a system called PixelSense. An AMD Athlon II X2 2.9GHz dual-core processor provides the tables’ computing power.
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