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>This looks VERY similar to what Tinsley Galyean of Nearlife has been
>doing for the last few years.

Interactive tables aren't necessarily new -- Tinsley / Nearlife were 
a fundamental part of one of the earliest interactive tables used in 
a public display at MoMA back in 1999 / 2000. 
<http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/1999/un-privatehouse/credits.html>

Tinsley's progressed a long way since then and the current generation 
of Nearlife's stuff is stable, robust, and has had a pretty 
significant head start. There's certainly a significant track record 
there with figuring out how this stuff should work and how the public 
might interact with it.

(Full Disclosure: I worked at Nearlife from 2000 - 2004)

>All without Vista or DRM.

I'm not sure that either of those matter and seem like something of a 
red herring. Vista's just the current rev of the OS and DRM's only an 
issue with certain types of content. Like an iPod, which can play 
certain types of DRM music (Apple's AAC format in use at the iTunes 
store), it also works perfectly well with content without any DRM 
(MP3, for example).

-bw.
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