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Introducing Microsoft Surface

Microsoft announce was indeed its new Microsoft Surface (old PlayTable or ‘Millan’).

The Microsoft Surface, is a table that integrates a 30-inch display that allows one or more simultaneous users to interact directly with images on the screen. Users can paint with their fingers, move and resize items like photographs, and manipulate content—all without touching a mouse or a keyboard.

Visit their official website to watch a showcase of this technology.

You can also watch the 18-minute interview with Mark Bolger on Channel 10 to see a great demonstration.

The object recognition is simple awesome. The feeling that will actually be able to use this at retail locations in the coming months makes it even more real.

If you want to know more, check out the press release and executive Q&A. For historical purposes, you might even enjoy watching the Channel 9 video interview with Stewart Tansley and Andy Wilson from August, 2005, where he shows off a “touchlight” prototype.