“Combined Surface User Interface” is a cool little patent application filed by Microsoft back in 2010, detailing the creation of a shared workspace stitched together by pico projectors attached to mobile devices. Users can interface with the projected area through motion captured on a camera. If the whole thing sounds a bit familiar, don’t worry, you’re not crazy. Earlier in the month, a patent application from Apple surfaced carrying the “Projected Display Shared Workspaces” title, detailed a fairly similar scenario. Interestingly, the two applications were filed a week apart, Microsoft’s on February 3rd, 2010, and Apple’s on February 11th of that year. It’s important to note, before jumping to any conclusions, of course, that the granting of patents in a case like this doesn’t hinge on the filing date.
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The Media Computing Group — otherwise known as the dudes and dudettes responsible for making multitouch hip again — is back, and some might say better than ever. The BendDesk is an outlandish new concept workspace for the future, relying heavily on a curved multitouch display to bring the wow. The desk is the Group’s vision of merging multitouch with a common physical area, and it’s probably the best implementation we’ve seen yet. A full ten touch points are supported, but the lower portion is also designed to be used as a standard desk, holding your laptop, paperwork and ink pen collection if you so choose. Shockingly enough, the whole thing looks exceptionally ergonomic, too. Head on past the break for a glimpse of it being used, but don’t hold your breath waiting for a ship date and price — something tells us it’ll be awhile before either of those are published.
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We apparently caught the eye of many a basement-remodeler with our Before and After: The Basement Home Office featured workspace—basements offices from all over have come pouring in. More »
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If your job is writing about people’s offices and finding inspiring aspects of those spaces, you’d better have a well-appointed office yourself. Today’s featured workspace certainly doesn’t fail to deliver when it comes to visual appeal and spaciousness. More »
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If you want the health benefits of a standing desk but you have no money in the budget to buy or build one, you’re out of luck. Unless, of course, you use a little ingenuity to repurpose some file cabinets. More »
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Today’s featured workspace is a peek inside a small tech support operation for a small west coast university. It’s got everything you’d expect from a den of geekdom including piles of gear, movie posters, action figures, and testing stations galore. More »
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While we love a tech-filled geek cave, an elegant workspace with a great view makes working a pleasure. Today’s featured workspace has a beautiful desk, a pleasing environment, and a view of Boston.
Not everyone needs triple monitors or an army of peripherals and being able to work productively with just a laptop goes a long way towards having a clear and airy workspace—cable management is, at it’s best after all, camouflaging something that’s there to appear as if it isn’t.
Lifehacker reader CosmoComet, when he’s commuting and working from Boston proper several day a week, finds himself working at this nearly invisible glass and acrylic workspace—he can look right through his desk to see Beacon Street below. Check out a wider view of the workspace in the photos below.
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The Window Desk [Lifehacker Workspace Show and Tell Pool]
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What do you get when you have space for a custom office setup, a good amount of cash, and the vision to make it all happen? Dozens of monitors and the need for your own personal power plant.
We’ve been watching Steve’s office since he first posted the construction pictures into the Lifehacker Workspace pool. Slowly we’ve watched his office take shape from a spackled room with naked monitor mounts into the jaw dropping display of computing power you see above.
Steve just finished the project and posted some pictures to update us, writing:
Originally there was to be 60 monitors, a mix of 19s and 24s however it changed a bit and there is now 40 24″ monitors and another 20 monitors offsite for development.
There is six computers running all the monitors, eac computer has a core i7 975, 24 gb of DDR 3 memory, two SLC SSDs in raid 0 and a large amount of nvidia NVS 420s as well as Nvidia 9800 GTs.
This office is used for intraday trading and development.
And by “intraday trading and development” he means displaying the world’s largest line chart screensaver when he isn’t using it to build a better bomb and issue demands of monetary compesation to world governments—or something like that we’d imagine. Check out more pictures of his awesome setup below:
You can check out more pictures of Steve’s office by visiting the various photo sets he shared during construction: Office construction, Office, and New Office Done.
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The Day Trader’s Paradise [Lifehacker Workspace Show and Tell Pool]
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Not everyone has an entire room to dedicate to their workspace, but today’s featured workspace’s well lit, well organized, and compact desk shows how to make due when you’re short on space.
Lifehacker reader davelei has a compact workspace that he gives an expansive feel to by keeping it tidy, using carefully directed lighting, and creating the illusion of extra space with a floating monitor mount—the Ergotron LX Desk Mount. The lighting is provided by a single desk lamp for task lighting and a set of IKEA Dioder color-changing LED lamps for ambient lighting. His peripherals and inbox are stored above and below the monitor space on the upper shelf and desk respectively.
If you like the wallpaper davelei is sporting the image on his left monitor is “Tiananmen Square”, an image from Balakov’s “Classics in Lego” series and the image on the right is Spectrum by GRIMGOR. Check out additional shots of the workspace below:
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Monitors in a Sea of LEDs [Lifehacker Workspace Show and Tell Pool]
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