The TouchTable is a portable media player concept designed by Thomas Mascall that functions like a DJ turntable through a large touch-sensitive wheel surrounding the screen. It allows for precise manipulation of music tracks through controls for position, timing, and pitch. Multiple TouchTables can be combined wirelessly for a full DJ setup experience in a compact portable device. While still a concept, a production model is expected in the next 3 to 6 months.

1. TouchTable Interactive MP3 Player
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Touchtable is a portable media player designed to be interactive and intuitive, with DJ-style controls. It
features a large controller wheel that surrounds the screen and functions like a turntable. It is a design
concept at present, by Thomas Mascall.

2. It’s sensitive to touch and pressure and when you use it in combo with the surrounding function
buttons, it facilitates absolute user control over a track, through precise position, timing and pitch
manipulation.
One function button controls the simultaneous switching to a secondary track, allowing the user to mix
records on the fly, or to scratch samples over a track. Through the cue output, each track is directed to
either the left or right headphone. The beat and pitch can then be matched, a cue point created, and the
combined tracks mixed out the main phono output.
Two devices can also be combined wirelessly at the click of a button, to act similarly to the traditional
DJ set up, just at around 1:8 the scale. This function also allows for multiple users to mix and scratch
tracks together, combining their own Touchtable devices through one output.
The TouchTable not only adds interaction to the personal listening experience, but can be used for
performance. The Touchtable can be plugged into a computer, where it acts as a midi device, working
with built in software, allowing complete creativity and control over customization and music creation.
Touchtable allows for complex interactions, comparable to a complete DJ set up, however the device
itself is very simplistic: designed for ease of assembly/disassembly, interchangeability and
miniaturization through technology. It is not only ultra portable, but cost effective, easy and enjoyable
to use.
No word on when this will be out, but suffice it to say that it's definitely in it's final stages of design,
and we should see a production model of this nifty gadget in the next 3 to 6 months.
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