Microsoft and the coffee-table shaped computer that responds to touch May 31, 2007
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Surface is essentially a Windows Vista PC tucked inside a shiny black table base, topped with a 30-inch touchscreen in a clear acrylic frame.
Five cameras that can sense nearby objects are mounted beneath the screen. Users can interact with the machine by touching or dragging their fingertips and objects such as paintbrushes across the screen, or by setting real-world items tagged with special bar-code labels on top of it.
Unlike most touchscreens, Surface can respond to more than one touch at a time.
The price tag is between $US5000 and $US10,000 per unit.
I doubt that the Surface can run another OS like Linux or MacOS. That kind of innovation is in the interface of user, not the hardware. So, It’s the translation into commands that is innovative. but, please , let me know hardware details that this computer uses ?
le truc kil ya ke c enfin microsoft arrive a faire une plate forme multi utilisateur graphique. autrement dit, on peu etre 100 a toucher en meme temps la tablette et que le systeme d’exploi reponde fiablement a ce quon attend. taré koi!
five years’research ! multi-touch, graping…
nice video and nice PC too