{"id":1520,"date":"2007-05-30T22:38:06","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T01:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1520"},"modified":"2007-10-06T09:34:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T12:34:00","slug":"table-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1520","title":{"rendered":"Table stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">V<\/span>ia Slashdot, I read about the announcement of <a href=\"http:\/\/hardware.slashdot.org\/hardware\/07\/05\/30\/127246.shtml\">&#8216;Microsoft&#8217;s Surface&#8217;<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/surface\/\">actual website<\/a>): it&#8217;s a table with a (touchscreen)<sup>1<\/sup> LCD and can be used for a variety of purposes. The idea is neat, but not original: Earlier in 2005 or 2006, Phillips Research announced the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.research.philips.com\/initiatives\/entertaible\/index.html\">&#8216;Entertaible&#8217;<\/a> as a concept. Generally, Phillips engineering department is worldclass so I wouldn&#8217;t blame them for giving the &#8216;taible&#8217; such a horrible name.\n<\/p>\n<p>Popular Mechanics has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/industry\/4217348.html?page=1\">more details on Microsoft Surface<\/a>. Skimming through the article, I can&#8217;t really tell if Microsoft is thinking about rolling out the hardware or just wants to focus on delivering the software that drives this kind of hardware.\n<\/p>\n<p>Interesting, for sure: particularly, now that prices of touchscreens have been going down.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"extra\"><small><sup>1<\/sup> (add 05\/31\/07) ArsTechnica goes <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20070530-what-lurks-below-microsofts-surface-a-qa-with-microsoft.html\">&#8216;under the table&#8217;<\/a> and finds out that the Surface doesn&#8217;t work with touchscreens (as the Popular Mechanics article claims), but with <em>near-infrared<\/em> camera devices  and plain light.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Slashdot, I read about the announcement of &#8216;Microsoft&#8217;s Surface&#8217; (actual website): it&#8217;s a table with a (touchscreen)1 LCD and can be used for a variety of purposes. The idea is neat, but not original: Earlier in 2005 or 2006, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1520\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}