Microsoft Surface

Machin3

Machin3

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So I was surfing the web today and came across this new Microsoft product which I thought was very interesting and that you don't come across often. It's Microsoft's new Surface(R).

Microsoft Surface is a surface computing platform that responds to natural hand gestures and real world objects. It has a 360-degree user interface, a 30-inch reflective surface with a XGA DLP projector underneath the surface which projects an image onto its underside, while five cameras in the machine's housing record reflections of infrared light from objects and human fingertips on the surface. The surface is capable of object recognition, object/finger orientation recognition and tracking, and is multi-touch and is multi-user. Users can interact with the machine by touching or dragging their fingertips and objects such as paintbrushes across the screen, or by placing and moving placed objects. This paradigm of interaction with computers is known as a natural user interface (NUI).
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Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Surface
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP5y7yp06n0

It looks very interesting except for the price: $5,000-$10,000;)
 
It was announced a couple of years ago, and has been available for over a year now. I got a chance to play with one, and it's neat, but more gimmicky than practical.
 
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