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- datdamonfoo, on 05/12/2009, -13/+49Wow, Apple has really built a great looking product here! So innovative, so functiona...
What? It's not Apple?
It's Microsoft?!
Ahem.
Booooo! This thing sucks! It'll never do anything! ***** M$! - inactive, on 05/11/2009, -3/+29I got to play with one of these at Disneyland. Using it in person is much more impressive than any video can convey. It really is an amazing device that MS should be getting more credit for. If they could only find a way to make it mainstream, and bring the cost down. But that's MS for you... always inventing cool ***** they never release to the public.
- TotalDouche, on 05/12/2009, -2/+11The guy using the Sheraton app seemed to be really pissed off with how it was working
- FlyingCaveman, on 05/13/2009, -1/+9Needs a bigger screen so that EVERYBODY can READ your ***** CREDIT CARD NUMBER.
- datdamonfoo, on 05/12/2009, -1/+7Haha. I love syntaxgs. He's like the inquisitive but annoying little brother on Digg who always chimes in with an amusingly embarrassing quote.
- lukehamilton, on 05/12/2009, -1/+6you're forgeting the power of social interaction and object recognition, Surface in no way wants to compete with a tablet PC.
- KSUdesigner, on 05/12/2009, -1/+6I don't think this, in its current form especially, is meant to compete with a 10 inch touch screen device. Just like a desktop doesn't compete with a laptop, a table doesn't compete with a laptop either.
- nfenetee8, on 05/12/2009, -0/+4WTF was the Barclay's app? It looked like coupon hunting plus a video-gaming casino. ***** if ya ask me, *****.
- seltaeb4, on 05/21/2009, -0/+4Apple = iPhone
Microsoft = Coffee Table - gwaggy12, on 05/12/2009, -3/+7I'm not that impressed just yet because of the hardware's prohibitive cost. Now, Windows 7 includes some really solid support for touch technology, but it still uses the standard Windows 7 interface, and it's pretty clunky.
I'll be impressed if they implement a "Surface" mode in Windows 7 or a later release that would allow the use of Surface applications with a tablet monitor. THAT would be awesome, and it would open up the use of Tablet monitors to non-artists. Open it up to PC use! - yatucaMP, on 05/13/2009, -0/+4here's an idea for you
learn how to spell - jayuu22, on 05/11/2009, -7/+11It's a real WOW!
- MCA2142, on 05/12/2009, -2/+6Yes. Hotels should have an iPhone with four legs in the lobby, so 10 patrons can try to use it for each of their needs.
- IFEice, on 05/12/2009, -1/+5You don't know how to count.
- inactive, on 05/12/2009, -1/+5They were the inventors, no other multitouch device uses infrared.
- lukehamilton, on 05/12/2009, -3/+6yes, play solitare on a device meant for social interaction .. brilliant!
- seltaeb4, on 05/21/2009, -0/+3Solitaire and Minesweeper are the only two things Microsoft seems able to manage.
- Eupatorus, on 05/13/2009, -0/+3*authors
- batguano, on 05/12/2009, -0/+3i don't see anything that really uses this interface, most of this stuff could be done now with a web page. the added flash of moving stuff around the screen doesn't add to the application. show me something that can't be done without this, something really revolutionary, then i will be impressed.
- scottbaez, on 05/12/2009, -3/+6There's one at the library of my college, and it doesn't do anything. I wanted to use it, to have fun with it, but zipping around Virtual Earth with my fingers got old in about 30 seconds. The coolest thing that it does is the Water Ripple program which also provided seconds of entertainment. I know that our machine just didn't have any good software on it, but even things like the photo browser and Virtual Earth felt clunky and hard to use.
Definitely not a device I would ever even consider buying or recommending to anyone. It is absolutely useless, and these apps don't do anything in my eyes to change that. Lots of eye candy, not much functionality, nothing useful that can't be done as well or better on a conventional computer. - MicrosoftAccess, on 05/12/2009, -2/+5=(
- gbhall, on 05/13/2009, -0/+2When I try to watch some of the videos I'm redirected to starwoodhotels.com???
- armo, on 05/13/2009, -0/+2I'm pretty sure Jeff Han's FTIR display uses infrared. You can even build one yourself if you're so inclined. http://lowres.ch/ftir/
- LeviTheSmith, on 05/12/2009, -1/+3Imagine this on a multi-touch tablet PC
Do those exist? - papastout, on 05/12/2009, -2/+4The first one, health care app would be grand IF you could satisfy a few precursory roadblacks.
First, training doctors, nurses, and staff on any new device / software is one of the most monumental tasks in the Electronic Health Record Movement.... I've done a few trainings, it's no fun.
Second, getting patients to be a part of the MSHealth Vault - A "secure" repository of your health records. Microsoft may be fighting an uphill battle here by trying to associate secure with its name.
Third, RFID fails and here you have an impressive system that depends largely on RFID for authentication by both practitioner and patient. More points of possible failure means more chance of failure overall.
But it's a good step in the right direction... when most of the developed world is already using much of these technologies I can't say I'm all too impressed by another device that won't be adopted by hospitals and health clinics. - BlueCadenza, on 05/12/2009, -4/+6Seriously. If Apple released an iTable it would be the "Must Have Household item of 2009" and the greatest thing ever made, every hip and modern living room would have one - even if all it did was play solitaire and have a fingerpainting program. Microsoft makes it and its an unecessary techie gizmo.
I'm saddened at where our consumerism has got us. - inactive, on 05/13/2009, -1/+3It's inside of that giant spinning building in Tomorrowland (used to be called America Sings, way back in the day).
- streak, on 05/12/2009, -2/+4Not in Micro$oft's hands it wasn't. M$ bought it after the iPhone announcement... and put it in an iPhone-styled tabletop. HAHAHAHA!!!!!
- inactive, on 05/12/2009, -2/+31) M$ isn't cleaver. It's stupid. You look like an idiot.
2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Surface
"The product idea for Surface was initially conceptualized in 2001 by Steven Bathiche of Microsoft Hardware and Andy Wilson of Microsoft Research." - inactive, on 05/13/2009, -1/+2Plus, if you want to get technical, they DID invent it. Surface was in development for a couple years before the iPhone.
- Bloodboiler, on 05/12/2009, -0/+1What? No cooking recipe database application?
If you have to grasp at straws you might just as well grasp classy time honored straws.
All of those apps could just as well have been done with any pointing device. - Aleman360, on 05/12/2009, -1/+2I want one just to play with! Although I don't think it would be a great main computer (I don't want to stare down at a table all day) it would be a whole lot cooler and more useful than my coffee table.
- pentiumii, on 05/13/2009, -3/+4It not any different then apple and people give them credit all the time for stuff they didn't invent
mp3 player apple didn't invent them they just made seam cool and pretty
multi touch not design by apple or patented by apple all apple did was buy fingure works who didn't invent multi touch either just patented the gesture commands to interact with it but people think multi touch is all apple and it is not
same dam thing
the fact is there are no such thing as an original idea al most all idea are built off from old idea that some els created that what we call progresess
to be honest if u do come up with an complete original idea most likely you would be some kinda supper genius and win your self the nobel prize - lukehamilton, on 05/12/2009, -1/+2check out http://www.vimeo.com/channels/surface for more apps (DaVinci, X-Ray, games and more).
I don't know what cryteria the author of this article used, but he missed some of the better apps (while stuff like Sheraton is just a reskin of the music and concierge app that everyone gets with the table) - inactive, on 05/13/2009, -2/+3Thank you for... Proving my point? ***** idiot.
- streak, on 05/13/2009, -0/+1Your point being... that the geniuses at M$ didn't invent anything, that the Surface is the Spruce Goose of touch devices, and it's M$'s lamo stop-gap response to the iPhone? I'm glad to be of help! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
- nysus, on 05/13/2009, -1/+2This was cool in 2007. Watching people use it just gives me a backache now.
- ifallen, on 05/13/2009, -1/+2why is he dugg down?
very few of these "amazing" apps don't exist elsewhere...
and why the hell would i use a table for directions when pretty much any decent phone will give me directions and be there with me in case i get lost or have an issue... - smoger, on 05/13/2009, -1/+2i want to play command and conquer on this
- Adralemechk, on 06/01/2009, -0/+1The stuff in Minority Report actually exists, and it's not Microsoft Surface.
- antdude, on 05/13/2009, -1/+2Where in Disneyland? I don't remember seeing it last October 2008.
- fandyllic, on 05/13/2009, -1/+2Can someone explain to me why M$ can ship tons of tablet computers for under 3K that have a lame interface, but surprise! if you pay 30K you all of a sudden get a cool interface?
Something stinks here. - sfriedlander, on 05/13/2009, -1/+1Eliss for Surface would be tight as sorta of a tech demo.
http://www.toucheliss.com/
playing this game on a bigger surface with multiple people would be tight - smoger, on 05/13/2009, -1/+1you're kidding, right?
- ifallen, on 05/13/2009, -4/+4apple already has a device that does most this stuff... and rather than being the size of a mini cooper...
it fits in ur pocket.
Oh yea, It's the iPhone.
And it doesn't cost 10 grand... - freshgrease, on 05/12/2009, -3/+3What? No porn apps?
- Kev1000000, on 05/13/2009, -1/+1This is my favorite Surface app.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNb9MSn2ZB4 - me2viky, on 05/13/2009, -1/+1i wish someday surface b available for Home users
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