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Ambient Displays - Microsoft Surface
While the price will likely make this a choice between an interactive coffee table and a trip for 2 to Fiji, yesterday's announcement about the new Surface computing platform ought to be a shot in the arm to all of those who dream of liberating computer displays from the 100-year old typewriter/PC form factor.
At our upcoming Technology Horizons exchange, among other topics, we'll be exploring how new displays being pioneered for scientific visualization of massive data sets may shape the way workers and individuals interact with machines in the future.
For what it's worth, it's not that Microsoft doesn't ever innovate - but surface looks remarkably like a prototype that researchers from Mitsubishi Electronic Research Labs demo-ed at the CHI 2000 conference. Their paper "Visualization Techniques for Circular Tabletop Interfaces" is a must-read.Technology Review: Your Coffee Table as a Computer
Ambient Displays - Microsoft Surface
While the price will likely make this a choice between an interactive coffee table and a trip for 2 to Fiji, yesterday's announcement about the new Surface computing platform ought to be a shot in the arm to all of those who dream of liberating computer displays from the 100-year old typewriter/PC form factor.
At our upcoming Technology Horizons exchange, among other topics, we'll be exploring how new displays being pioneered for scientific visualization of massive data sets may shape the way workers and individuals interact with machines in the future.
For what it's worth, it's not that Microsoft doesn't ever innovate - but surface looks remarkably like a prototype that researchers from Mitsubishi Electronic Research Labs demo-ed at the CHI 2000 conference. Their paper "Visualization Techniques for Circular Tabletop Interfaces" is a must-read.
Technology Review: Your Coffee Table as a Computer
Microsoft unveiled a new addition to computing: a coffee table that doubles as a computer for viewing photos, videos, maps, or Web pages, for instance. The electronic furniture, called Microsoft Surface, lets users manipulating these objects directly with their fingers--to resize a picture or rotate it so that someone across the table can look at it.