Table Connect For iPhone Gets Mockup, Full Accessibility

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The picture you’re looking at below is a schematic view from the folks behind the Table Connect, who have done something profoundly interesting with your basic iPhone. Imagine using your iPhone, and then plugging it into your kitchen table, where now all of your icons are displayed on a touch, sensitive display, and you can use your kitchen table to control your iPhone. That’s possible now, thanks to the Table Connect.

Basically, the Table Connect offers a standard Apple Dock Connector system that allows you to plug your iPhone directly into the table itself. It then transfers what you’d see on the display on the iPhone directly onto the surface of the table, where you can interact with your iPhone’s icons, only this time, on a 56 inch touch-sensitive surface.

If you’re thinking that that idea sounds familiar, that’s largely because it is familiar–Hyundai actually announced that they were looking to do something similar, this time with a 70 inch screen, about two weeks ago.

The difference here, of course, is that the Table Connect is actually within striking distance of release. Alpha software is currently in the final stages near completion, and the whole thing should be ready in a fairly short while. How the Hyundai system will be affected by the Table Connect is as yet unclear.

But what this means to us is that, basically, you’ll be able to sit at your kitchen table, and do everything you could do on the iPhone, on the tabletop.  Imagine that for a second–get the morning news while you sleepily eat your breakfast, have a family game night featuring Angry Birds, even get recipes while you cook dinner, or just peruse recipes while you eat reheated leftovers in a bid to distract yourself from the fact that you’re actually eating reheated leftovers.

No idea yet on costs or release dates, but this is still a very cool design that’s worth a look.