What you are looking at above is an air-hockey table. But wait, it’s not just an ordinary air hockey table; it’s a multi-touch air hockey table. A start-up arcade would definitely need this as a center of action. First previewed at the Integrated Systems Europe 2009 show in Amsterdam a couple of weeks ago, this Multi-Touch Air Hockey is a project between Panasonic and U-Touch. The hardware tweak came from U-Touch and the software was built by London-based Uicentric.

Panasonic finds it hard to sell off its $70,000 television because of the tough economy. So they came up with this idea – to turn its 103-inch television into a multi-touch touchscreen air hockey table. Although it still has some kinks, it would still look cool to air hockey aficionados. Not on sale yet, the Panasonic Multi-Touch Air Hockey is only for conferences and corporate events at the moment.