The final day of the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show came to a close on Friday evening. During the four official days of running, numerous products were shown by thousands of companies hoping to pique the public’s interest. Not many new products were shown on Friday, but CES did wrap up with a couple pieces of tech and summarizations worth mentioning.

Most people probably don’t think of using the table to order their food at a sit-down restaurant, but that’s exactly what company Moneual has in mind with their MTT300 Touch Table PC. The device is literally a touchscreen computer within a dining table, and it can be used to do nearly everything a PC can, in addition to what it’s actually meant for: taking orders, taking payments and showing menus. It features a screen that takes up a large portion of the table it is housed in and is protected by sturdy glass meant to take the abuse of a restaurant table.

Also talked about was the first look of Microsoft’s Windows 8 Pro Surface tablet. This is a much higher grade tablet than the Windows RT Surface that received mixed reviews, primarily because of its lackluster operating system. Scott Stein’s article on CNET.com said that the Surface Pro is “the dream of a tablet as your PC, while the original Surface felt more like an iPad competitor.”  Unlike RT, Windows 8 Pro offers the exact same user experience one would find on a desktop or laptop, due to its much higher price point and much improved hardware (this is another CES tablet that features PC specs).

What could be a new standard in Wi-Fi reception was shown at CES this year. As a collaboration of multiple names in the wireless industry, the first laptop ever with a wireless card allowing a 60GHz band has been developed. This new connection, allowing up to 7Gbps speeds, is far faster than the current 2.4GHz and 5GHz speeds that are standard today. Routers are already in development that support this advanced wireless speed.

Nokia was at CES talking about how they plan to make their smartphone cameras really stand out beginning this year. Despite expectancies of 13.0 megapixels to be the standard for the up and coming generation of smartphones, the company may even further push what a smartphone camera is capable of achieving.

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