May

29

2007

Microsoft Surface

Category: Windows

Judging from these movies, this is a cool new table top computer with an über touch screen++. It does picture resizing like the iphone, plus a heck of a lot more.

This is the first thing I’ve seen come out of Microsoft in a while that made me say “wow, that is fscking cool”.

I want one just to practice my Chinese (reacts to brushes), but the active tiles were really neat too – just watch the movies.

(Hopefully it’s not just hype – not just “this is what we are thinking about someday making”. If it’s a real thing, I want one)

Update: while these look fun as heck, with a USD$10,000 price tag, looks like I won’t be getting one for a long, long – long, long, long time. So I am now back to – I can’t wait for an iphone ^_^

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  1. XSVDO on May 29, 2007 11:14 pm

    The basic concept of multi-touch is pretty simple. I use FTIR for blob display. I’ve been working on a blob tracking system written in actionscript (http://xsvdo.vox.com/library/post/blob-detection-working-in-flash.html).

    http://nuigroup.com/forums/ is a good place to start if you are interested in multi-touch. If enough people are interested, I want to open source everything and get a project started on OSFLASH, provide an alternative to processing, vvvv, and the TUIO protocol. My idea is to create a 100% AS library that handles multi-touch events. I have no doubt that the Fl(ex)ash community would create some cool games, productivity apps, etc.

  2. Microsoft Surface. Nene tere @ otro blog ms on May 30, 2007 5:15 am

    [...] Escrito por csr el 30 May 2007 a las 12:17 pm | Archivado como: Cacharritos Microsoft Surface. Antes de nada, se me pasan por ah, miran los vdeos y alucinan (s, la pantalla es a prueba de ralladuras y salpicaduras). Una vez cerrada la boca… s: los interfaces tangibles estn de moda, con Jeff Han, el iPhone, el ReacTable del IUA de la UPF… Pero la presentacin de Microsoft (insisto, pasen y vean, que es tremendo) es sencillamente espectacular. Los interfaces estn cambiando… Va. [...]

  3. macrorel on May 31, 2007 1:29 am

    I love the video where photos are downloaded from the phone!
    Take a look at video #4 I think.

    http://multi-touchscreen.com/microsoft-surface-video-multi-touch-jeff-han-apple-bill-gates.html

  4. Rodrigo on June 3, 2007 7:26 pm

    You should have a look at this Article Rob.

    cheers

  5. rob on June 5, 2007 1:28 pm

    Hi Rodrigo,

    Which article?

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