It’s not a Touch Desk: Microsoft’s Surface
June 23, 2007
Back at the beginning of May I included a blog entry on the Touch Desk. Now Microsoft has released more details on the Surface product, on May 30 (while I was traveling - I’m still catching up with the world!). It features a30-inch desktop screen, which is not actually touch-sensitive: it uses five cameras to determine movement of hands on the desk. Objects can be moved around, enlarged, selected, and so on using finger or hands, including by multiple people at the one time. It runs on Windows Vista.
It sounds like it is planned to introduce Surface to service industries initially - hotels, casinos, restaurants, phone stores and so on - but I’m sure that once we see this more we’ll all be wanting to use this for much more, at home and work.
It’s easier to show you what you can do with Surface than put it in words:
There are more demos on YouTube, including:
And Popular Mechanics has a good article explaining how it works in more detail.
Revolutionary! It will change the way we work with the computer.
Touch desk
May 4, 2007
Microsoft demo of the touch desk concept:
Very cool.
Supercomputer Cray’s founder moves to Microsoft
December 1, 2005
Supercomputer Cray’s founder and chief scientist is taken a job at Microsoft.
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