Panasonic's 103-inch plasma repurposed as multitouch air hockey table
With VIZIO and Pioneer jumping out of the plasma game, we can totally foresee sales of Panasonic's 103-inch PDP skyrocketing. All kidding aside, a startup arcade would be ludicrous to not shove one of these into the center of the action. What you're looking at above is a mutltitouch air hockey table, made possible by Panny's ginormous plasma and a U-Touch overlay from uicentric. The table was on display over in Amsterdam at ISE 2009, and quite frankly, we're intensely envious of the attendees who were able to blow off some steam by grabbing a game on this. Obligatory video is just past the break.






















Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
EUPHOR1C @ Feb 17th 2009 8:28PM
I see 103 ways of the screen getting broken on the worlds most expensive air hockey table. Cool, but it actually makes my stomach cringe and I don't even own it.
Fred @ Feb 17th 2009 10:23PM
It's so cool!
Not really.
hey hey @ Feb 18th 2009 12:11AM
Impressive! I wonder how they were able to lay one of the largest in production PDP's flat without damaging it.
Lee451 @ Feb 18th 2009 12:28AM
As expensive as those are, why waste it as a hockey table game? Or is that question too obvious?
COMALite J @ Feb 18th 2009 12:40AM
Wow, that's almost — PONG!
Without the touch-screen overlay, I'd like to see one of those put into a properly sized wooden box with a glass overlay and buttons on the sides, running Visual Pinball.