Mitsubishi’s engineers showed off a variety of applications for the technology in a lately demonstration. For instance, the table can be used to show satellite pictures of a region before and after a natural calamity.Emergency workers preparing relief for the area could draw fingers across it to show likely delivery paths for medical.

The other demo turned the table into a big virtual Scrabble board. Letters could be chosen and dragged into position just by touching the display and sliding a finger over it. Other board games can work simply as well, making life a much simpler for people who like playing games having many pieces and set up.

This kind of table can be used to plan a holiday. Attach the PC to the Internet, start a good map mash-up, and keep everyone involved. Nobody is required to push anyone to attempt to get control of the computer, and each one can contribute in one way or the other.

One very nice application of the technology included mixing it with voice identification software. In this scenario, engineers demonstrated a video game where pictures of tanks rolled over a landscape on the tabletop display. The players controlled the tanks by tapping on the tabletop and controlling by verbal commands.

Obviously, if one puts a table like that to war gaming use, make sure it will stand up to “battlefield” damage. Near the end of Mitsubishi’s video demonstrating the table, someone unintentionally spills almost entire soda can on it! And it worked perfectly without any issues like nothing happened.

About the video, it’s seems that the Mitsubishi expects it to bring its biggest following in the enterprise by the way they showed it off. There were many depictions of various people gathered around the table, opening, closing, and communicating with the kinds of applications one would expect in an office setting.