Long since gone are the days of sitting at the breakfast table, drinking a cup of coffee and sharing the Sunday paper... or are they? The
New York Time's R&D Lab is developing a "kitchen table" based-on
Microsoft Surface touchscreen technology, designed to take individuals that are normally face down in their iPads, back to the table for a more social way to consume and share content. The display gives multiple readers the opportunity to sit at the table and interact, with options to share across the surface by swiveling and enlarging images or articles. The
Times envisions that it will also be a mode of discovery, where users could get more information on a certain product by placing it on the table to find prices and related
NYT articles, which could also an interesting method for advertising -- just be careful where you put that Starbucks cup.
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