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Love it or hate it? Microsoft Surface. email this discussion to a friend?

Nephthys (23)   ranked 1,928 out of 2,394 in computers10 months ago

Envision what you want to do on a computer, use your hands to make it happen. It's an amazing concept! Resize pictures and videos by stretching the object out with your fingertips, transfer files between the computer and your phone (or other PDA-like device) by placing it on top of the table, move things around by hand, and much more.

With an extremely expensive table at $10,000, you can awe your guests!

What I love about it is the actual technology behind it and the endless possibilities that this can bring to other devices (other than a table). However, let's say they make this into a laptop device as well. I think it'd work best for media systems, but for gaming it would be kind of awkward to play something like World of Warcraft (I would think). Also, as a table, I would have to babysit my guests to make sure there would be no scratching of the glass, no drink marks, no fingerprints, etc. It would make me so paranoid to have someone de-beautify my uber-expensive and cool as hell table. Wonder how Microsoft is handling that kind of detail.

If you look at their videos on their site, it would be quite an experience at a restaurant if it were to be used. Imaging playing games on the table while you wait for your food or splitting your check with your friends and just dragging the menu items from the table to your credit card you just place on it. BUT... how much would the food cost at such a restaurant if they were to implement these kinds of tables? Do you think they would increase their price?

Hopefully after a few years of this technology being out in public, the price will decrease where any home can essentially afford it.

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1. randomelginguy (35)   10 months ago

Microsoft Surface and other such multi-touch things really interest me and I believe it will be a major part of modern computing once the price comes down a bit.

I can't really see many places buying the Microsoft Surface as it is far too expensive for what you get.
Jeff Han did a good talk at TED about his multi-touch computer, if you haven't seen it already search for multi-touch on www.ted.com, he has created a multi-touch system that is both low-cost (don't know HOW low though) and scalable, so hopefully will see more from that.

As regards to gaming with them, there is a vast potential. Alot of current games will not work without some sort of rethink but it is the same as happened with the Nintendo Wii, the developers thing a bit and come up with ideas. I am currently in my final year of a Computer Games Technology course and this sort of thing really interests me.

It has sooo much potential, most games would probably work around some sort of gesture, like to select troops you just draw a loop around them and then tap your finger and drag to where you want them to go or something. Gesture recognition has been in games for a few years now (Black and White is a great example) and it would probably be the way to go for things like this.

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2. myLot reputation of 98/100. bong_domingo (542)   10 months ago

i've seen that one when launched here in the Phils. I think that's very very cool... but i don't find it very practical.. not just yet i guess...

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3. aahlei (34)   10 months ago

I don't like surface. It make me confuse...

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