A messaging and ornamental coffee table system and method of operation provides a coffee table comprising a resilient base, sidewalls extending up from the resilient base and forming a cavity, and an at least partially transparent table top having a depressed message portion and hingedly connected to one of the sidewalls. The system further comprises at least one light source operational in the cavity to illuminate towards the at least partially transparent table top. The system further comprises a plurality of tiles defined by multiple faces displaying alphanumeric characters, or symbols, or both. The tiles are arrangable on the message portion to display a message. The system further comprises an at least partially transparent ornamental member disposed on the table top. The illumination from light source illuminates the alphanumeric characters and symbols of tiles, and the at least partially transparent ornamental member to enhance visibility and decorative effect thereof.

Example modular desks are described herein. An example desk includes a first desk surface and a second desk surface coupled to the first desk surface. The second desk surface is moveable relative to the first desk surface between a first position in which the first desk surface and the second desk surface lie in a first plane and a second position in which the second desk surface is disposed in a second plane which is non-parallel to the first plane. The example desk includes a touchscreen coupled to the second desk surface. The touchscreen is exposed when the second desk surface is in the first position and when the second desk surface is in the second position. The example desk includes a processor operatively coupled to the touchscreen. The processor is to control a presentation of data via the touchscreen.

A conferencing arrangement for sharing information within a conference space, the arrangement comprising a common presentation surface including a presentation surface area, a common presentation surface driver, a system processor linked to the driver and receiving and presenting the information content via the common presentation surface and a portable user interface device including a device display screen and a device processor, the device processor programmed to provide an interface via the device display screen useable to view content and to enter a command to replicate content presented on the device display on the common presentation surface, the device processor capable of identifying a direction of a swiping action on the interface as a command to replicate the content, wherein, upon identifying that the direction of a swiping action on the interface is in the direction of the common presentation surface, the arrangement creates a sharing space on the presentation surface area and replicates the content from the device display within the sharing space.

A system for presenting an electronic device on a display table is disclosed. The system includes a table, a processor, an electronic device, and a cable. The table includes a display screen, and the display screen is operably connected to the processor. The electronic device is disposed on the table and includes a touch screen. The cable connects the electronic device to the processor. The touch screen of the electronic device is configured to display an image that changes in response to an input to the touch screen. The display screen of the table is configured to display an image that changes in response to the input to the touch screen of the electronic device. A change in the display screen image comprises a graphical continuation of a change in the touch screen image.

A workstation assembly comprising an emissive surface assembly including a substantially contiguous emissive surface on which visual content may be presented, the emissive surface assembly including emissive surface sections including first and second substantially flat emissive surface sections wherein one of the first and second flat sections is substantially horizontal and the other of the first and second flat sections is at least somewhat vertical, first and second curved surface sections that are curved about first and second non-parallel axis, the first curved section positioned between and adjacent the first and second flat surface sections, the second curved section adjacent an edge of the first substantially flat emissive surface section, each of the curved and flat surface sections forming a portion of the substantially contiguous emissive surface, a support structure and a driver.

An article of furniture with a stereoscopic display device includes a furniture device and a stereoscopic display device. The furniture device includes a main body. The main body has an accommodating slot. The stereoscopic display device is disposed in the accommodating slot. The stereoscopic display device includes a flat panel display, a lens array layer and a microstructure layer. The lens array layer is disposed on a display surface of the flat panel display. The lens array layer is configured to adjust light field. The microstructure layer is disposed on the lens array layer. The microstructure layer is configured to modulate a direction of light. The stereoscopic display device is configured to display a stereo image floating in mid-air. Accordingly, a user can naturally see the stereo image floating in mid-air at an oblique viewing angle.

A system for presenting an electronic device on a display table is disclosed. The system includes a table, a processor, an electronic device, and a cable. The table includes a display screen, and the display screen is operably connected to the processor. The electronic device is disposed on the table and includes a touch screen. The cable connects the electronic device to the processor. The touch screen of the electronic device is configured to display an image that changes in response to an input to the touch screen. The display screen of the table is configured to display an image that changes in response to the input to the touch screen of the electronic device. A change in the display screen image comprises a graphical continuation of a change in the touch screen image.

A table combination includes a table plate supported on legs, the table plate includes a chamber, a displayer device is engaged in the chamber of the table plate and includes a connector, and a shield is engaged in the chamber of the table plate and disposed on the displayer device, and the shield includes an opening formed in the shield. A carrying bag is engaged in the opening of the shield. The carrying bag includes a housing having a base wall and an upper wall, and a cover panel is extended from the upper wall and foldable relative to the upper wall and movable toward the upper wall, a base plate is engaged in the housing, a support device is foldably attached to the base plate with a hinge device.

A terminal is provided. The terminal includes a horizontal touch-based operating surface, a first vertical support side car, and a second vertical support safe enclosure. The operating surface includes integrated transaction devices that perform transaction processing on the terminal. The operating surface can be dynamically switched between a self-service mode of operation, an assisted service mode of operation, and a teller-service mode of operation. Each mode of operation dynamically orients displayed information on the operating surface to a particular side or both sides of the operating surface and selectively activates and deactivates the integrated devices.

In some examples, an electronic classroom desk includes a desktop comprising a display device, and a processor to authenticate a student at the electronic classroom desk based on received authentication information of the student, and responsive to authenticating the student: cause display, on the display device, of class material selected based on a criterion relating to which class the student is currently attending, and cause display, on the display device, of student-specific information that corresponds individually to the student, without regard to the criterion.