Archive for August, 2008
Microsoft Surface and the Jukebox Effect
If you want to see interesting, then you need to stop by one of the Sheraton Hotels and get a look at the Microsoft Surface Computer in action. While many people were predicting that the Surface appearing in the real world so to speak was something that would not really pan out. People would find [...]
Are Touch Screens Becoming Respectable?
With all due respect to the Microsoft Surface and the Apple iPhone, Multitouch technology is not particularly interesting to the average person on the street. I know that it’s almost heresy to suggest that touch-screen technology, perhaps the most exciting brainchild of the technological revolution, is actually not really that feasible on the larger scale [...]
Sheraton to Become Multitouch Enabled
Microsoft has continued their campaign of bringing Multitouch to every person in the nation by signing a deal with Sheraton. Under this deal, several of the key facilities under the Sheraton chain will be getting Multitouch devices in their lobbies to help visitors with several different new features.
Sheraton hotels in San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, [...]
Windows 7: The Great Enigma
The electronics world will never cease to amaze with the amount of intrigue that it can come up with. However, when millions of dollars are at stake on every single decision that a major company makes, we can perhaps forgive them for playing their cards close to their chest.
If this type of cagey behaviour is [...]
Microsoft’s Sphere Puts Future Gaming in New Light
Microsoft did unveil their spherical Multitouch technology at a recent demo and a number of the different things the spherical surface can do has gotten people talking about the possibilities. While the demo of the Sphere has reignited interest in Microsoft, one of the major areas that have been speculated on recently is gaming.
One [...]
Microsoft Unveils Multitouch Sphere
Since the unwitting leak that lead to massive speculation regarding the Multitouch Sphere that Microsoft had been working on, the device has actually been demoed. There are many different videos circulating the internet at the moment that discuss the different parts of the demo, but suffice it to say that Microsoft has drummed up more [...]
