Microsoft’s New Surface Computer
If you thought the technology in “Minority Report” was far-fetched, you were mistaken. Its actually a lot closer than you think.
Check out this Popular Mechanics video of Microsoft’s new multi-touch point, multi-user computing surface computer. If Microsoft has its way, ‘ubiquitous computing surfaces’ will become pretty common in a few years. Bloody impressive!
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June 8th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Super Cool. the only thing about that is the price, 5,000 may be a bit high to get the kind of market penetration that Microsoft probably wants.
June 8th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
I agree, but it’ll get cheaper.
Remember how plasma TVs were $15,000 5-6 years ago, and now they’re only $1500.