Microsoft Surface: Apple Tablet Killer?
The Microsoft Surface, one word- awesome!
This is a surface computing platform that responds to natural hand gestures and real world objects. It has a 360-degree user interface, a 30-inch reflective surface with a XGA DLP projector underneath the surface which projects an image onto its underside, while four cameras in the machine's housing record reflections of infrared light from objects and human fingertips on the surface. The surface is capable of object recognition, object/finger orientation recognition and tracking, and is multi-touch and is multi-user. Users can interact with the machine by touching or their fingertips and objects such as paintbrushes across the screen, or by placing and moving placed objects. This paradigm of interaction with computers is known as a natural user interface (NUI).
Sweet huh? It will initially be used in hospitality businesses, such as restaurants, hotels, retail, public entertainment venues and the military for tactical overviews. The price tag is going to be of course very large, somewhere are $700 to $10000. I wouldn't imagine this as the nonexistent Apple Tablet killer, but a expensive second look.
Gagan Moorthy Dec 6, 2009 at 12:43 AM
Reader Comments (2)
Looks awesome, However it must cost an absolute BOMB.
Cool, in the future my coffee table will get the BSOD... The Apple Tablet (if released) will be portable... And not a table that weighs as much as a smart car.