"touchtable" Technology
 

Amazing stuff by Google...Big brother is indeed here. Wat until the middle of the video at least. See backdated images from Iran, their "research facility"...

http://www.pbs.org/kcet/wiredscience/video/231-touchtable.html

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Pretty cool.

Thanks for the direct link...shows how techno I am...not at all! $59,000? Hell, think I'd rather have a touchtable than a Boxster!

So you can play pool?? ;)

The 3d imagery stuff is pretty awesome if you haven't seen that.

Yeah, I found that kind of amusing. "Works like a real pool table"? Sure it does...
NOT! Naw, I'd want one so I could snoop on EVERYBODY!

Thats friggin awesome. I can definitely see how that would be useful.

I think I'll get one! Very cool.

I wonder if "ERS" is a public company.

You could buy one now for $59,000, or wait a couple of years and get a better, faster version for 2 grand.

Remember the big rush to get an i-phone? People just had to have one. Some folks waiting a little while and were rewarded.

The price always comes down on new tech stuff, but some folks don't care. They like paying the "look how cool I am" tax.

I SO want one!

Visit Jeff Han site --> http://multi-touchscreen.com/ for some good ideas and DIY tips.

I have been 'collecting' hardware to build one for a while now

if a "touch" applicance costs 59K.

It better be shaped like a fit bird,
that does what i want,
when i want

and doesn't whine or nag.

ESRI is *the* player in GIS.

You can get a 42" touch overlay (for an LCD or Plamsa) for around $4K. We are putting one in our cIED training system. In our case we are using the touch screen as interface to the game engine.

Forget this though - just go straight to gestures without any screen. We have one of these systems set up at the Interactive Media division:

http://oblong.com/