This is by far the coolest and most amazing thing I have ever seen with the name of Microsoft on it and now I think I know why Vista took so long to produce. The Microsoft team has been too busy playing with the Surface project to do anything else and I don’t blame them. I can’t wait to give it a go myself. I have to admit it looks very similar to a few of the prototypes that have been floating around for a over a year now but most of them have been developed by students. It was only a matter of time before either Apple or Microsoft picked up on one of these ideas and ran with it.
Microsoft Surface is a touch screen interface that interacts with anything that touches the screen and looks as though it can and will do some amazing things. This is how using a computer is supposed to be and not all this mouse keyboard stuff we have now. Visit their new site and have a look.
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UPDATE: I found some more footage which is a behind the scenes look at the technology and oddly enough actually includes the developer of multi-touch and founder of Perceptive Pixel Jefferson Han. Popular Mechanics Behind the Scenes Look at MS Surface
UPDATE 2008: Surface in the wild
Lots of video popping up all over now that surface was demoed at CES 2008 here is the first I have found so far.
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