Restaurant Table LCD Shows Food In 3-D
Japan's TEC has created a restaurant table with a built-in 3-D LCD screen. The table, called the Tobidasu Menu, lets you browse food choices. The piece de resistance is that you can select each item on the touch-screen table for full-size, 3-D view. The table SHOWS WHAT YOUR FOOD WILL LOOK LIKE SITTING IN FRONT OF YOU. The table even performs a few wacky tricks -- for example, you can place a hamburger bun on the table and when you lift it up again there will be a 3-D digital burger underneath. Brilliant (in an over-the-top Japanese kind of way.) (props to CScout Japan)
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Many Americans are surprised to find that many, even nice, Japanese restaurants have pictures of the food on the menu and they also often have highly realistic plastic "models" of the menu items on display as well. Making realistic models of food is an art form in Japan and choosing food by appeearance is the norm. I guess this is a natural extension of that. I doubt it would catch on anywhere else, however.
I've noticed that Japanese are in general very intolerant of the food the receive in restaurants being unlike the food shown in pictures or models. This is remarkably unlike in the West, where people seem resigned to the fact that if it looks fresh, colourful and mouthwatering on the menu, it will look like a turd on their plate.
Interesting concept, i work for a
3D display company here in the US called Magnetic, if a restaurant someone is interested in try this concpet here in the US, please contact me at mikeegan@magnetic3d.com or visit our website at magnetic3d.com
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