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Microsoft Surface: Behind-the-Scenes First Look (with Video)

The software giant will announce at the D5 conference today that it’s built a new touchscreen computer—a coffee table that will change the world. Go inside its top-secret development with PopularMechanics.com, then forget the keyboard and mouse: The next generation of computer interfaces will be hands-on.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4217348.html

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Microsoft Surface: Behind-the-Scenes First Look (with Video)

The software giant will announce at the D5 conference today that it’s built a new touchscreen computer—a coffee table that will change the world. Go inside its top-secret development with PopularMechanics.com, then forget the keyboard and mouse: The next generation of computer interfaces will be hands-on.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4217348.html

I thought they already had that.

Tom Cruise used it in a movie.

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
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[quade 4]

I don't understand what the big deal is . . . ANYBODY can already do this. Touch screen flat panels have existed for quite awhile. Mount one on a table . . . OOoooooo.... Magic!

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[2fat2fly 0]

Me want! Me want!

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Pretty nifty!!

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[shropshire 0]

Nope ... these are Multi-Touch surfaces (current screens are single touch)

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The IR camera to do wireless transmission is a new thing also. Object identification via a touch surface is something that hasn't been done that much before.

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[Slappie 9]

Seriously this technology is exciting! It's really like nothing that's been shown before. Except maybe in the movies.

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them."

[floridadiver81 0]

This isnt all that new. I saw that exact video early last year.

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[Grips 0]

Pretty cool when they put the camera on there, and transferred the image.

Now only if they can put this on Sony's electric paper

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Seriously this technology is exciting! It's really like nothing that's been shown before. Except maybe in the movies.

Exciting yes, but its been around for awhile. Micro$oft bought this from someone else.

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Micro$oft bought this from someone else.

Thats how they get stuff.
You don't think they actually innovated anything do you?

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[cderham 0]

I know my old neighbor was telling me about a software code she was writing that would be a whole new way to surf the internet. We moved away and a year later I was hearing about things in vista that sounded like what she told me. I made a phone call to another old neighbor who told me microsoft bought her code for alittle over $5 million plus royalties and she has since moved and bought a $1.8 mil house. If I could be a forward thinker like that.

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