New Way to Handle Computers with Microsoft’s Surface
Thought this was pretty interesting while I was trolling around the newspapers. Appearently Microsoft has come up with a new “tabletop computer” that uses hand movements and touch to manipulate what you’re doing. For now they think its going to be pretty commercial, if it is used much at all in the next few years, but it’d be really interesting to see how they do gaming on this thing (rock paper scissors with your computer… heh)
The company plans to unveil a computing device today called Microsoft Surface, featuring a 30-inch screen embedded in an acrylic tabletop. The device’s electronic guts are hidden in the low-slung table’s thick pedestal.
At first glance, Surface is reminiscent of an old-fashioned arcade game table around which patrons played Pac-Man. But there is no joystick here, and no mouse or keyboard either. The device is controlled by touching the tabletop display.
Microsoft says this touch screen will allow people to “interact with digital content the same way they have interacted with everyday items such as photos, paintbrushes and music their entire life: with hands, with gestures and by putting real-world objects on the surface”
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