EXOdesk From EXOPC Is An Interactive, Touchscreen Workspace From The Future (VIDEO)

We've seen some stunning videos showing different visions of the future, but this video of a future desk from EXOPC might be the coolest one yet. The company's concept for a transparent touch-screen workspace, called the EXOdesk, sure looks a lot like the future.

Oh, and also? It begins shipping next year for $1,299.

Check out what can be yours for thirteen-large in a teaser video posted by EXOPC (below).

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EXOPC will be showing off their EXOdesk at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in January.

The 40-inch HD desk will be available to consumers starting in 2012, while the "HTML5 multi-touch development kit and the bi-directional application store" will presumably be open to developers sooner. (Note to developers: Someone please make an air hockey game.)

EXOPC currently makes a pair of tablets running Windows 7, but this first-look video of the company's interactive desk has launched the Canadian company into the spotlight. The EXOdesk video has gained almost 150,000 views in the two days since it was posted.

The desk itself has drawn comparisons to the Microsoft Surface, a touchscreen tabletop from the software giant that is now in its second iteration. The most notable difference between Microsoft's product and EXOPC's? Price. The Surface is intended for the enterprise and retails for $8,900, while the EXOdesk looks more like a consumer product with its more manageable price tag of $1,299.

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[APRandom]

10:34 AM on 11/24/2011

Where's the pre-crime squad fast-roping into the scene? Whenever I see this kind of thing now I think "Minority Report." Retina scans wherever you go. Get me outa here. Time to "cut the soles off my shoes, live in a tree and learn to play the flute." - Firesign Theatre

[beasteben]

05:12 PM on 11/23/2011

I hate typing on a touch screen. I need to feel things move up and down under my fingers, and a bit of resistance.

[mr e vader]

10:31 AM on 11/23/2011

Cool. Now we can experience the BToD (Blue Tabletop of Death) instead of the same old "BSod"

[Valerio della Porta]

11:31 AM on 11/23/2011

Not if you are running Lion :-)

[valar84]

02:26 PM on 11/23/2011

If you do, you get the dreaded spinning beach ball of death of the size of a real beach ball...

[CharlesBrown008]

10:29 AM on 11/23/2011

Someone invent a giant central processor on the net for the iPhones so they don't need a CPUs and last a month on today's batteries.

[CharlesBrown008]

10:42 AM on 11/23/2011

Better yet, remote processing units that dial to to the iPhones so they (the iPhones) can be paper thin and roll up like a currency bill. This is the return of the desktop, but for a different purpose.

[euromarkusx]

07:29 AM on 11/23/2011

This would never work in a bright office

[phatemu]

06:45 AM on 11/23/2011

On the surface, the so-called "Stop Online Piracy Act" (SOPA) looks like it has a noble end, that of protecting criminal violations of copyright by foreign (non-U.S.) actors. However, on careful inspection, the Act has the potential to spawn a virtual (cyber) witch-hunt and dismantle the free and democratic edifice of the Internet.

Giant ISPs such as Comcast have already begun to block file sharing websites; and Comcast has already gone to court and gotten the legal green light to block or slow web content. Now, as the Federal Communication Commission sits on the sidelines, it is about to receive the authority from Congress to go after content providers if, pursuant to Section 104 of SOPA, it can claim a "reasonable belief" that they are hosting at least some material that is infringing the rights of copyright owners. And it can do so with complete civil and criminal immunity.

[SvrWx]

01:05 AM on 11/23/2011

When all else fails, CTRL_ALT_DEL...

Either that or >del *.*

[John Crane]

10:55 PM on 11/22/2011

He used that desktop like most people use a tablet, which is different from the way that most people use a desktop.

[Valerio della Porta]

11:52 AM on 11/23/2011

A table and a desktop are essentially the same thing that's why Microsoft created the Metro interface for Windows 8... oh WAIT, you said tablet? I missed that last t.

LOL

[firewired]

09:46 PM on 11/22/2011

Where are the [CTRL][ALT][DEL] keys at? Those are the keys I use most often!

[bryansteele]

09:23 PM on 11/22/2011

I wonder what the monitor is for?

[Rhonda Lutz]

09:33 PM on 11/22/2011

Me too.

[ChiefLaughsAtSheep]

08:54 PM on 11/22/2011

I want to go watch Minority Report now.

[Help USA Taxpayer]

08:30 PM on 11/22/2011

no one wants to be Attached to a desk in the future or even today ---- any advancements that take a step backwards away from Mobility will fail in retail

[uberdoober]

05:06 PM on 11/26/2011

but for cg artists, stock brokers, illustrators, editors, directors, graphic artists, executives and anyone else who has a computer in their office for any reason this is a godsend.

I can't wait to get away form a mouse and a keyboard. Can't freaking wait!

[Dolphinfan65]

08:21 PM on 11/22/2011

If it was a GLASS table!!! I would buy it. it's just a over sized touch screen. I would be cleaning my finger prints everyday. plus how good is it at gaming?

[CynAnne]

08:20 PM on 11/22/2011

The future is so shiny...want now, plz. ;3

[headly67]

07:43 PM on 11/22/2011

The piano thing is way cool.