Comments on: Ordering at a restaurant using your table’s Surface http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/06/01/ordering-at-a-restaurant-using-your-tables-surface/ Taming that torrent of information Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:18:21 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Dianrez http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/06/01/ordering-at-a-restaurant-using-your-tables-surface/#comment-831 Dianrez Sat, 02 Jun 2007 01:41:52 +0000 http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/06/01/ordering-at-a-restaurant-using-your-tables-surface/#comment-831 Looking beyond their use in restaurants, these tabletop screens have enormous applications in graphic arts, in gaming, in communications from desktop to desktop and beyond in cyberspace, and in videophone use. Maybe with modifications they could provide access to deaf-blind people? We all know the rapid drop in price that happens with electronics, so in under ten years these could be in homes. I'm keeping an eye on this. Looking beyond their use in restaurants, these tabletop screens have enormous applications in graphic arts, in gaming, in communications from desktop to desktop and beyond in cyberspace, and in videophone use. Maybe with modifications they could provide access to deaf-blind people? We all know the rapid drop in price that happens with electronics, so in under ten years these could be in homes.
I’m keeping an eye on this.

]]> By: proudgeek http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/06/01/ordering-at-a-restaurant-using-your-tables-surface/#comment-830 proudgeek Sat, 02 Jun 2007 01:09:02 +0000 http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/06/01/ordering-at-a-restaurant-using-your-tables-surface/#comment-830 Haha, Lantana! Those Surfaces will cost about $10,000. That's a huge step up from those $5 write-n-erase boards! Haha, Lantana! Those Surfaces will cost about $10,000. That’s a huge step up from those $5 write-n-erase boards!

]]> By: Lantana http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/06/01/ordering-at-a-restaurant-using-your-tables-surface/#comment-829 Lantana Sat, 02 Jun 2007 01:07:38 +0000 http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/06/01/ordering-at-a-restaurant-using-your-tables-surface/#comment-829 This reminds me of one of those childrens' toy "boards" where you write, then pull up the plastic cover to delete the message. I know a hearing woman who used one of these because she'd had a stroke and could not use her voice. I think they cost less than $5.00 at a toy store. Grin Lantana This reminds me of one of those childrens’ toy “boards” where you write, then pull up the plastic cover to delete the message. I know a hearing woman who used one of these because she’d had a stroke and could not use her voice. I think they cost less than $5.00 at a toy store.

Grin

Lantana

]]> By: Proud Geek http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/06/01/ordering-at-a-restaurant-using-your-tables-surface/#comment-824 Proud Geek Fri, 01 Jun 2007 20:17:19 +0000 http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/06/01/ordering-at-a-restaurant-using-your-tables-surface/#comment-824 Gally Grad, you raise a very good point about accessibility for people who are blind / have low vision or have limited dexterity. Since the Surface can play music, I wonder if Microsoft can program in a voice synthesizer that can speak choices (or be shut off) as needed, ie, when detecting a hand on the Surface. And I wonder too if choices / pictures can be made larger and/or easier to touch / move for those with limited dexterity. What about voice recognition software for those who are paralyzed? Hmmmm. Gally Grad, you raise a very good point about accessibility for people who are blind / have low vision or have limited dexterity. Since the Surface can play music, I wonder if Microsoft can program in a voice synthesizer that can speak choices (or be shut off) as needed, ie, when detecting a hand on the Surface. And I wonder too if choices / pictures can be made larger and/or easier to touch / move for those with limited dexterity. What about voice recognition software for those who are paralyzed? Hmmmm.

]]> By: gally grad http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/06/01/ordering-at-a-restaurant-using-your-tables-surface/#comment-823 gally grad Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:32:47 +0000 http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/06/01/ordering-at-a-restaurant-using-your-tables-surface/#comment-823 this may make things easier for some people, but those who are blind/low vision or who have motor/dexterity issues will be completely left out of this technology. inaccessibility stinks. but so few things are designed to be universally accessible. for more info about universal design, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_design this may make things easier for some people, but those who are blind/low vision or who have motor/dexterity issues will be completely left out of this technology.

inaccessibility stinks. but so few things are designed to be universally accessible. for more info about universal design, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_design

]]> By: Dwayne Adkins http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/06/01/ordering-at-a-restaurant-using-your-tables-surface/#comment-819 Dwayne Adkins Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:16:38 +0000 http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/06/01/ordering-at-a-restaurant-using-your-tables-surface/#comment-819 Glad to see it making progress and putting in place to use. It will save lot of time and grief in placing orders. I can say it is here in some fast food places like Subway, BP with Wild Bean delis,certain Mom and Pop deli's too. With a touch screen menu, you can make your own sandwiches the way you want it. Perhaps Joey's experience ordering steak sandwiches would have been easier if there were a touch screen menu, eh? Glad to see it making progress and putting in place to use. It will save lot of time and grief in placing orders. I can say it is here in some fast food places like Subway, BP with Wild Bean delis,certain Mom and Pop deli’s too.

With a touch screen menu, you can make your own sandwiches the way you want it. Perhaps Joey’s experience ordering steak sandwiches would have been easier if there were a touch screen menu, eh?

]]> By: Richard Roehm http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/06/01/ordering-at-a-restaurant-using-your-tables-surface/#comment-818 Richard Roehm Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:21:07 +0000 http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/06/01/ordering-at-a-restaurant-using-your-tables-surface/#comment-818 Great technology could make life better for people with communication issues. Great technology could make life better for people with communication issues.

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