A few weeks ago I was watching television and there was a program on multitouch tables. They found a place in Amsterdam where they have two tables in an exhibition space! The place called Soco and Peter Distol is the Creative Director I had a meeting with.
In the meeting we talked about the future of surface computing, every surface could be a computer in the future. And we talked about the speed thing are going with these kind of devices. I also had a chance to test some of the applications they are working on.
The nicest thing about multitouch isn’t that you can use al your fingers to control a device. But I think that the social interaction makes it unique. Just sitting around a table and sharing one application makes it a beautiful experience. Below are some photos I’d made.

Looks pretty cool. And offcourse helpful for your thesis.
awesome place.