CES 2006: Philips launching Entertaible

Jayanta BhattacharyaJan 6 2006

Philips

Philips Electronics is announcing their Entertaible platform this year at the Consumer Electronic show in Las Vegas. The Entertaible is a 30" touch-sensitive LCD display mounted in a wooden table.

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It is a whole new kind of board game and videogame hybrid where you load up games in the table and use a set of specialized pawns and dice to play. Philips' idea behind this is:

i. To infuse some kind of market Viagra in board game market and

ii. To bridge the gap between the myriad play possibilities the digital medium offers and the tactile, social qualities of playing with real people and real things.

Entertaible is currently conceived as a commercial game attraction and targeted towards restaurants, bars, and casinos. However, Philips has decided that there is a potential for the Entertaible to be adopted by home users looking to revive family game night.

The table where you place the flat panel screen requires no specialized setting or lighting conditions and is completely operated by touch. It can detect the positions of pieces on the glass, and dozens of objects or fingers simultaneously in contact with the table.

Via: GamesFirst Thanks.