Google Touchtable, when your Garmin just isn't enough, amazing stuff, but I

[HysteryDiagnosis]

didn't care for the part showing the Iranian facility being covered with dirt... coulda left that part out imho.

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

[TreasonousBastard]

1. I gotta get one!

[NV Whino]

2. Very cool

I saw the precursor of this on TED talks several years ago.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

3. why? it is a perfectly acceptable use of the tech... n/t

[HysteryDiagnosis]

6. Cuz.... it seems like a political statement being made where the tech is in the

spotlight. Seems like an attempt to shape public opinion about dropping yet more bombs where none have been actually invited to drop... just like before.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

7. or maybe it is to show the technology

and how it can be used in a military application (as was being discussed at the time). And heaven forbid the world should know that Iran was/is hiding their nuclear enrichment process...or trying to.

sP

[HysteryDiagnosis]

8. Yeah, and imagine if we decided to hide ours, and India did the same, and

Pakistan, Russia, Japan, China, North Korea and all the rest, imagine if everyone hid theirs.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

9. yeah...too bad none of those countries

have satellite technology and use it. go back to your 'electric utopia universe' and you'll be happier.

sP

[bbinacan]

4. Awesome!

I want one.

[d_r]

5. microsoft had something like this a few years ago

you could sit at a restaurant and use the table's touchscreen to order from the menu