Microsoft has launched their Project ‘Milan’, which is basically a large touchscreen with a new multitouch manipulation software.
I tried a similar product in New York last year (based a projector instead of a touch screen) and based om my experience it makes a big difference when you’re using a multitouch display instead of a keyboard.
If you’re using a multitouch display on a horizontal surface it’s often becomming a social experience in contrast to using a keyboard where you’re mostly interacting in a individual manipulation and interaction mode. So give me a couple of those, thanks … but could someone at Microsoft please make sure that the blue screen of death is not all over my coffee table? 
It would ruin my creative mood, I’m sure.
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This will be an insanely amazing product, that for what it is I would definitely shell out $10,000 for something that is that awesome.