Microsoft's Surface

I love the idea of Microsoft's new invention that will be coming out soon to Restaurants, Hotels, Retail Locations and Casino Resorts. Think of "Surface" as an touchscreen device like an iPhone, but applied to a kiosk with powerful features. Check it out: http://www.microsoft.com/surface/

Lets imagine this in a restaurant for a sec. You sit down to a table with a glass surface and touch your fingers to the surface. A menu of the resturant is then displayed, but lets say you want more information on the items on the menu. Just click on the title of the food to get a more in-detail pictures of the food item along with some links to people who had reviewed the same item from newspapers and actual customers.

You order the food, but you have some young children with you. You simply open up an drawing application that allows them to select, with their fingers, what colors they want to use and draw on the table. Meanwhile, you can decide to go on the internet, but instead you open up solitare to waste some time. You are moving cards around with the touch and tap of your fingers.

The waitress comes with your food and the family starts eating, but wait! she forget the ketchup for the kid's fries. You open the app to request, selecting the ketchup from a list of several images. Then the waitress comes right out with the selected item.

After you are done, but still waiting for the children -- you decide to write a review on the food and service of the resturant for others future participants to view when they come in. Then you decide to open up the "request" again and ask to pay for the bill after viewing the check on the display.