Archive for June, 2007
How the Surface Actually Surfaced…
The technology behind Surface is called Multi-touch. It has at least a 25-year history, beginning in 1982, with pioneering work being done at the University of Toronto (multi-touch tablets) and Bell Labs (multi-touch screens). The product idea for Surface was initially conceptualized in 2001 by Steven Bathiche of Microsoft Hardware and Andy Wilson of Microsoft [...]
Build your own touchtable !
“Pretty much all the devices that are available to consumers such as tablet PC’s, or businesses such as the smart boards and kiosk PC’s are single touch only. The devices just emulate normal mouse interaction with a single cursor. The touchtable, surface pc and perseptive pixels devices all allow you to interact with [...]
Surface not innovative?
The below information was sourced from an unreliable source. It’s accuracy has now been discredited. It appears it was not a Surface computer that was used during the production of “The Island”, and in fact most of the credit should go to Mark Coleran and others. An update is provided here.
“While working for Microsoft [...]
SX Professional Gaming Surface Unveiled by SteelSeries
“Along with specialized headphones keyboards and mouse, one of the most important things that a hardcore PC gamer needs is a gaming surface or a mouse pad. Danish gaming gear maker SteelSeries has now unveiled the SX, a new professional gaming mousepad made of fiber polished aluminum featuring an anodized oxide surface treatment.
Every SX [...]
Apple’s answer to MS Surface
“Apple will include more of hand gesture and touchscreen technology in its consumer products, such as the iPhone, iPod and even the Macs. Much of what Surface does in terms of user interface already exist in the iPhone and Leopard will probably have an extended set of hand gesture functionality built in too. It [...]
Flat future for Microsoft’s Surface?
The jury seems to be out on how useful Surface actually is outside of a niche market of casinos and restaurants, but the cost will have to come down from its $10,000 (£5,021) price tag if the eventual product family is going to attract consumers and businesses in any kind of numbers.
More [...]
Do Not have s*x on MS Surface table
Today, a friendly warning for those adventuresome couples (or trios if you live the dream): do not have in***Course on the MS Surface table. The new table monitor will attempt to sync anything put onto the table (phones, Zunes, PDAs, and quite possibly you). You have been warned.Sure, the likelihood of this thing being made [...]
Surface will Sync with your Zune
“The demo presented by Microsoft shows how you will be able to create interaction between the Zune and your ‘Surface table monitor’. Just by leaving the Zune on the ‘Surface table monitor’, it will automatically be recognized by the Surface technology. You will then be able to use the content in your Zune, add, remove [...]
Microsoft Surface: Behind-the-Scenes First Look (with Video)
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Microsoft Debuts ‘Minority Report’-Like Surface Computer
Microsoft Surface is a multi-touch tabletop computer that interacts with users through touch on multiple points on the screen.
The concept is simple: Users interact with the computer completely by touch, on a surface other than a standard screen. It will feel like Minority Report
This is a NUI–a natural user interface. It’s a natural way [...]
