Microsoft’s super expensive Surface table doesn’t have anything on the iDesk, a stunning concept by the editors at MacLife and illustrated by Adam Benton. The iDesk’s Minority Report-like interface would allow you to sync your iOS devices by simply placing them on the table. Not only that, but the whole desk could serve as a trackpad. Talk about gestures.
MacLife explains:
The desk could sync with your Mac or potentially have a Mac built in, perhaps with a portion of the desk’s surface angled upward to serve as a display. Tactile keyboards could likewise be replaced by a digital touch-sensitive version (endlessly configurable to your preferences for individual apps), and any part of the desk’s surface could be cordoned off as a trackpad area. Files could be transferred easily between Macs, iPhones, iPads, and so on by sitting the devices on the desk and swiping file icons across its surface from one device to the other. Shared files could be passed between coworkers via digital inboxes, designated digital “trays” that collect documents sent from other iDesks. And of course, the desk would wirelessly sync to your iCloud account to keep calendars, contacts, and other data updated across all your gizmos.
You could even skin your desk’s look to match your office. Like the look of woodgrain? Change the iDesk’s theme. Want to work on top of a constellation? There would be a theme for that too. Trippy.
(via 9to5Mac)
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15 responses to “iDesk: The Ultimate Home Office Concept For Apple Lovers”
How much is AppleCare? Because you’ll need it with that thing.
Is this real? Wow…. I gotta have it!
Looks dreadful, cluttered. Very “non-Apple”, in my opinion.
Just make sure you don’t spill your coffee.
“concept?” this thread is useless without a prototype. Anyone can dream up an interactive desk, and I’ve already seen interactive bar tops out there, so what’s the delay in making a working model of this?
Yawn. Pretty design, pretty legs, pretty USELESS. Wake me when there’s an actual prototype of this pipe dream (and for pity’s sake, DON’T put a desktop on it. The mixed paradigms give me a headache).
Love it – stop being so negative
Love it! Thinking The Island Desk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
This is probably the single most expensive electronic devices i have ever seen. Good luck trying to sell these Apple.
So, Surface has nothing on this “concept”? True, especially when the Apple desk can birth winged unicorns, doubles as a jet pack, and makes a mean espresso.
Sheesh. Give me a break. Hard to trump an actual product with a pre-prototype pipe dream
Totally SICK !! :)
WOW!!!
Someone else did though. ExoDesk. They made an interactive table available at the CES expo. The problem with these surface tables is the cost.
The ExoDesk will sell for $1300 if it arrives
Microsoft Surface isn’t exactly available for the public market even Surface 2. However, NextDayPC is selling Samsung’s SUR40 40IN LCD TCH MON 1080 MICROSOFT SURFACE for $7,900
They thought of everything. You can even sync your cup of coffee.
Its Bephuct!