Check out the first commercially available digital table, Microsoft's Surface. It borrows heavily from the interface designed by Jeff Han (and currently available on the iPhone). However, it is the future. Especially for the neighborhood martini bar.
I can't wait for the painting program to come out in conjunction with the interface!
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/
Read a review and get the inside scoop from Popular Mechanics:
The product behind the Milan project is called the Microsoft Surface, and the company's unofficial Surface showman is Jeff Gattis. He's a clean-cut fellow who is obviously the veteran of a thousand marketing seminars. He spoke in sentences peppered with "application scenarios," "operational efficiencies" and "consumer pain points" while he took me through a few demonstrations of what the Surface can do. One of Gattis's consumer pain points is the frustrating mess of cables, drivers and protocols that people must use to link their peripheral devices to their personal computers. Surface has no cables or external USB ports for plugging in peripherals. For that matter, it has no keyboard, no mouse, no trackball — no obvious point of interaction except its screen.
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