edit:MS introduces surface computing

[JEDI]

i can see that surface being defaced the 1st day it's put in place at a commercial establishment (restaurant, hotel, retail store, etc)

 

[Chadder007]

Yawn.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: Chadder007
Yawn.

You should get some sleep if you're tired.

 

[Q]

EDIT: after watching the vid, it is pretty neat

 

[Darthvoy]

meh...I was hoping for something cool.

 

[fallenangel99]

That last part of the video with those square glasses is very cool.

 

[w3stfa11]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: cruiser1338
Can anyone say old news? http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6379146923853181774&q=multi-touch and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcKqyn-gUbY

Those movies say Apple and Adobe stuff. Microsoft seems to have it to being non-portable. Projectors and IR sensors? Comeon, what is this Duck Hunt?

Are those commercial products? Didn't think so

And both links are of the same device.

I was going to say the same thing. The guy presenting at TED is in research (a student iirc); there's a huge difference between a cool gee-whiz prototype demonstration and a commercially viable product. Just think of the enormous amount of work that has to go into to producing even the software for such a device. There are mountains of data, graphics, math, and programming behind all of those neat programs like painting, photos, and restaurant menus.

The "student" in the video is Jeff Han, who is a research scientist at NYU. He founded a company and his work is now being sold to the military.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Han

In any case, I think "surface computing" is really neat. It's one of the reasons why I like the iPhone so much.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Surface

I'm curious, did Microsoft coin the term, surface computing?

 

[Queasy]

It's a coffee table book about coffee tables!

 

[yhelothar]

I could already imagine how computers will be line in the future.
With sony currently developing paper thin LCDs that can be rolled up and folded, it doesn't seem too farfetched to combine these two technologies. With these two technologies combined, we could possibly make computers the size of a sheet of paper, with a touch interface!
Give it a decade at most IMO.

 

[0roo0roo]

http://www.asktog.com/starfire/index.html
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4915875929930836239
http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html

 

[James Bond]

After watching the videos at www.surface.com, I am truly blown away.

All of the applications they have come up with (paying at a restaurant, exchanging pictures, etc) are genius.