Via:engadget You may know Jeff Han, you’ve probably seen his company Perceptive Pixel’s Interactive Media Wall / Multi-touch Collaboration Wall (or whatever they’re calling it these days — if not, peep it here), but the missing link to this stuff is taking it home. Well, the wait is apparently over, and for once it’s Nieman Marcus we’ve got to thank. While you’re shopping for the latest must-have fall fashions, be sure to stop by the newly anointed Futuristic Displays That Don’t Belong at Nieman Marcus Shop to pick up your 8 x 3-foot multi-touch display for a cool $100,000 US, only ten times the price of Microsoft’s forthcoming Surface. Don’t worry, your family will appreciate your investment; trust us, we really think they’d far prefer
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Earlier this year, Microsoft unveiled its Surface tabletop PC, and now Redmond is taking the technology demonstration on the road. Recently, it stopped off in London, where News.com sister site Silicon.com had a chance to take a closer look. The Surface system, also known by the Milan code name, uses a 30-inch screen, several cameras, a PC running the Vista operating system and a projector to create an interactive, touch-sensitive environment that reacts to objects coming into contact with its flat surface. This application shows an image of the bed of a stream. When you place a finger on the screen, it reacts as if you have disturbed the water above the pebbles. The Surface device currently costs between $5,000 and $10,000, but Microsoft hopes