Microsoft ‘Surface’
The name for Microsoft’s new touch screen development. It could be a coffee table, a register, a catalogue, an interactive television, a military planner.
It’s been a while since I’ve seen technology that has really excited me, but I can stress the level of anticipation I had after watching this flick and reading the Popular Mechanics article.
The product behind the Milan project is called the Microsoft Surface, and the company’s unofficial Surface showman is Jeff Gattis.
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Gattis took out a digital camera and placed it on the Surface. Instantly, digital pictures spilled out onto the tabletop. As Gattis touched and dragged each picture, it followed his fingers around the screen. Using two fingers, he pulled the corners of a photo and stretched it to a new size. Then, Gattis put a cellphone on the surface and dragged several photos to it — just like that, the pictures uploaded to the phone. It was like a magic trick. He was dragging and dropping virtual content to physical objects. I’m not often surprised by new technology, but I can honestly say I’d never seen anything like it.
Simply amazing.
I wonder who is sitting behind the scenes, imagining this stuff up. Where do ideas like this come from? Who figures out these fantastic ways of sharing data, synchronising information?
I really look forward to the day, 10-20 years hence when computers have evolved beyond the ‘box and screen’ setup we are presented with today.
Exciting times…
Link: Youtube - Microsoft Surface (Promotion)
Link: Popular Mechanics Article and Video Demonstration - Microsoft Surface
