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Berry
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Contemporist has a great post on Inamo, one of the newer restaurants in London's
West End, which boasts fully interactive tables with touch technology. The
tables function use overhead projectors and touch panels on the tables that work
together to display things like menus, as well as rotate through a series of
seven tablecloths according to the patrons preference. Customers are also able
to order directly from the digital menu, reducing waiters to little more than
human FAQs.
Inamo's tables are also capable of running games and providing location-based
services, like ordering a cab. Planned out by Blacksheep, Inamo also features
state-of-the-art design that pays special attention to factors such as colors,
spacing, and visual coherency. Sure, the tables may not render 3D models like
some concepts we've seen in the past, but these ones actually exist in a public
space. Here's the description straight from Blacksheep:
The ‘cocoon’ projectors are set at the same height throughout within the
suspended high gloss black ceiling and come in three sizes to light 2-cover,
4-cover or 6-cover tables. When customers sit down there are white spots for
plates and an individual ‘e-cloth’ for each table. Customers use a touch panel
to order food and drink or change their table top to one of the seven other
patterns available. ‘Serving staff are available at any time to help customers
to navigate their menus or answer any other queries, but the menus have been
exceptionally clearly designed and should be both intuitive and fool-proof for
users!’ Project Designer Benjamin Webb commented.
Check out more photos over on Contemporist.
http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gi[....]emenus-and-digital-tablecloths
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masseur
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sounds good, but being projectors, the patrons, plates, glasses, etc will get in the way
I'm looking forward to see places using Microsoft Surface which, btw, has its SDK coming available this month
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QVGA
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From: Pakistan
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computers are taking over our daily lives!
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Access the forum with a mobile phone via esato.mobi
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Posted: 2008-10-09 11:18
