Surface

My friend, Kevin Jarrett commented on yesterday’s blog posting about Lenovo’s “Yoga” computer, by describing Microsoft’s under-development Surface interface.

http://www.kevin-jarrett.net/blog/?p=1052

I did a quick search on YouTube and found this very appealing video that claims to disput Microsoft’s invention of this technology.  That aside, it’s fun to watch!  The sound of children giggling — what can you say!

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  1. Alfred Thompson posted the following on May 30, 2007 at 10:03 am.

    I don’t think the Living Surfaces stuff has anywhere near the granualarity and resolution of the Microsoft Surface. Obviously there is a lot of surface simularity (no pun intended) in the demo but the Living Surfaces just notices shadows (according to their web site) while the Microsoft Surface interface involves a pretty fine level of detail. Everything builds on something else of course and there has been a lot of work with touch screens and other sensor technology over the years that a lot of people have used in various ways. You may also want to look at this demo/video at http://on10.net/Blogs/larry/first-look-microsoft-surfacing-computing

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  2. Michelle posted the following on May 30, 2007 at 10:47 am.

    This really reminds me Jeff Han’s Perceptive Pixel, which I first heard of from Will Richardson’s blog http://www.weblogg-ed.com/index.php?s=perceptive+pixel&submit=Search in January. Is it the same technology?

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  3. Mr. Chase posted the following on May 30, 2007 at 11:02 am.

    I was thinking what Michelle was thinking: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/65.

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  4. Dave posted the following on May 30, 2007 at 2:12 pm.

    I was just thinking that it was a nice video! ;-)

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  5. Gary Stager posted the following on May 30, 2007 at 3:24 pm.

    The MIT Media Lab has been demonstrating such inventions for a decade…

    http://tangible.media.mit.edu/projects/pingpongplus/
    http://tangible.media.mit.edu/projects/
    http://affect.media.mit.edu/projects.php

    Once again, Microsoft innovates ten years late.

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  6. tracey posted the following on May 30, 2007 at 5:54 pm.

    They have one of these floors at the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto - I was quite surprised by how much chasing fake (but beautiful) fish and splashing in fake water cheered me up - I felt as though i had fallen into that Matisse painting of the goldfish bowl.

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