Pioneer Brings Out A Microsoft Surface Competitor In The WWS-DT101 Table

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If you’re like me, you’ve looked at Microsoft’s Surface and thought, wow, this is a pretty good idea. You can see a whole lot of potential applications here, from providing recipes front and center to folks in the kitchen, to displaying news while you eat at the table, even to providing fun for family game nights with a touchscreen display built right into the dinner table. And the folks out at Pioneer aren’t going to let Microsoft have all the fun with possibilities, thanks to the announcement of the WWS-DT101 table.

Pioneer‘s WWS-DT101 is, essentially, a 52 inch multitouch flatscreen display, (very much like Microsoft Surface) backed up by a computer and mounted inside a table, as you can see in the pic above. With the WWS-DT101, you’ll be able to manipulate documents on the flatscreen surface, as well as transfer them, wirelessly, to any network connected device by virtue of TransferJet technology in the tablet itself. Plus, you’ll even be able to use USB devices with it as well. It’s running a kind of Windows 7 for an operating system, backed up with an Intel Core i7 processor, six gigs of RAM,

As far as specifications are concerned the Pioneer multitouch WWS-DT101 is based on Windows 7 64Bit operating system and comes and is powered by an Intel Core i7 CPU supported by 6GB of RAM. Whether the table will come with any storage space is as yet unclear, but since, at last report, it supported USB devices, you’ll likely be able to plug in whatever you like in terms of storage. It may well even have an SD card slot. Considering how much real estate is involved in this thing’s construction, there really aren’t that many things it couldn’t throw in if it were so inclined. The only limit here would be on just how many of them actually did get added on.

There’s no word just yet on pricing and availability, but considering the sheer number of possibilities for something like the Pioneer WWS-DT101, I can’t imagine it taking long to get here. Let’s just hope it doesn’t price itself out of the market in the process.