After Microsoft corp. revealed its hottest innovation to date ‘ the Surface’ , i have witnessed a sudden increase in domain names that relate to this microsoft’s multi billion dollar project. At Sedo.com a place to buy and sell domain names, there are people flocking with offers to buy domains to start an online business related to Surface as most of the names they want are already registered. Currently the name SurfacePuzzles.com, a great name for puzzle games for Ms Surface is at auction with 2 days 9 hours left for the auction to end. The current highest bid is already $500! theSurface.com sold at sedo.com for $2000 and an unconfirmed report of GamingSurface.com selling at an auction conducted by Sedo for more than $3000,
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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 Research. In October 2001, a virtual team was formed with Bathiche and Wilson as key members, to bring the idea to the next stage of development. In 2003, the team presented the idea to the Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, in a group review. Later, the virtual team was expanded and a prototype nicknamed T1 was produced within a month. The prototype was based on an IKEA table with a hole