New York Times Invents Note-Taking Conference Table

Fast Company: The Listening Table, developed by the New York Times’s in-house NYT Labs, is a smart conference table that listens to the conversations happening around it. When users sit at the Listening Table and tap their fingers on it, they’re not bored: they’re dropping bookmarks, which the Table then collects into a transcript of the meeting’s most important moments. The goal of the Lab within the New York Times is to look at emerging technologies and behaviors, and then build them out into “tangible artifacts of the future that are relevant to news and media.”