[AccessD] OT: Weekend, technology OT: Microsoft Surface Computing....

Hi Shamil

The cut at PopularMechanics very briefly tells about the construction - it's where they move around with glass bricks and a glass of cola.
These demos always forget about the keyboard ...

/gustav

>>> shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru 21-09-2008 22:49 >>>
Hi Gustav and Max,

Yes, this technology was first announced in 2007 - the question here is what
is your feelings/expectations there how much it will take until it gets
broadly used in the office work (if ever) - I mean it's getting developed
there at MS:

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/apr08/04-01SurfaceRetailPR.msp 
x 

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

But still expensive...

And they say it's available now in AT&T stores - used by merchants to talk
with the customers/present them goods etc. ASAIU - did anybody see/touch it
there live? - it looks so amazing. How it's done? Some-infrared
transmitters/detectors located very close to the screen surface? Why this
"smart coffer tables" are still so thick? Is there anywhere description how
it's done?

Thank you.

--
Shamil


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Hi Shamil and Max

Still interesting, but didn't an entertainment movie some years ago
demonstrate exactly that technique for picture handling? Indeed the method
for resizing?

/gustav

>>> max.wanadoo at gmail.com 21-09-2008 22:02 >>>
Hi Shamil,
This is not new. I saw this a year or maybe more ago.

I passed details on to a guy who writes games.  I think in time you will see
lots of apps coming out for this. Imagine flicking through a database to
find a record as you would a deck of cards etc.

Max


On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Shamil Salakhetdinov <
shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Have you seen/are you all talking there about this amazing "thick"
> technology from MS:
>
> http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4217348.html 
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/may07/05-29mssurfacepr.mspx 
>
>
> I did write "thick" because this really amazing (I will not get tired to
> repeat that - I think I was never that excited about new technology) - this
> "coffee-table computer" is still rather thick (or tall) - 50 cm(?) tall and
> expensive - 5,000-10,000USD?
>
> Are there any rumors there when it will become thin and inexpensive enough
> to be broadly used in usual office work? - But the latter promise to be so
> unusual if that piece of technologies ever reaches it - but it (rather soon)
> will, will not it?
>
> It all looks like David Copperfield (Laser) Illusion - have anybody seen
> that tables in reality and in action - they say they are now distributed in
> AT&T stores/shops there, are they?
>
> Thank you.
>
> --
> Shamil
>
> P.S. BYW, it looks like MS Vista (or similar) Windows OS version drives
> these "smart coffee tables"...