Microsoft Surface

[ErosOlmi]

Marco Pontello is a great news buster.
On a post in Power Basic forum he mentioned about ... :D

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/

[Petr Schreiber]

This is very nice technology,

but I bet I could not use it as cat we have home would jump on it and watch reactions of GUI all the day :)
I wonder how can applications react on the events, maybe some new WM_FINGERSTRETCH ? But how to get coordinates from lParam :D


Thanks,
Petr

[kryton9]

This is that system that was presented at that show a few months back, I gues Microsoft bought a good thing when it can.

My guess is it will be like Origami or Tablet PC's priced to high to be a factor any time soon. Those origami videos had me so excited when I saw them, bought when you saw the devices that came out and their price a big let down. Tablet PC's were the same. They are still too expensive.

But it is cool technology that someday will be here. Probably at Shopping Malls as Kiosks or maybe in Arcades in some new cool video game!!

[ErosOlmi]

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4217348.html

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070530-what-lurks-below-microsofts-surface-a-qa-with-microsoft.html