Philips plans to show a prototype of its Entertaible tabletop gaming platform at this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, combining "multi-player board and computer games in a uniquely simple and intuitive way," it says.
The Entertaible -- developed at Philips' HomeLab research center in Eindhoven, the Netherlands -- is based on a 30-inch touch screen LCD with "a series of infrared LEDs and photodiodes discretely mounted around the perimeter. Entertaible can simultaneously detect dozens of objects, including fingers," says the company.
It's not going to be cheap, so Philips is targeting "the out-of-home game market such as restaurants, bars, and casinos". However, it reckons the Entertaible could evolve into a viable consumer product.
As well as storing a number of games, it could also be used to download new games and to play online.
It will be at CES booth 9024 for visitors to play.
