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Disney's Innoventions Dream Home is a Big Ad For Microsoft and HP...But I Still Want It

Recently, Disney announced the grand opening of their new Innoventions Dream Home located in Tomorrowland in Anaheim, Calif. The construction was a collaborative effort between Disneyland, Microsoft, HP, Life|ware and home-builder Taylor Morrison—so naturally the home functions more as a big advertising campaign for current products than an actual "home of the future." Still, I wouldn't mind booting out the fictional Elias family from their 5000-square-foot home to get my hands on some of this tech. More »

9:00 PM on Thu Jun 19 2008
By Sean Fallon
11,879 views, 25 comments

Latest by n/a: i think this disply WAS at epcot about 8 years ago...they have had a house of the future at epcot pretty much since it opened. more »

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Microsoft Surface Debuts For Drunken Vacationers At the Rio in Vegas

Microsoft's following up its initial retail rollout of their Surface Table at AT&T with a slightly sleazier version in Vegas. The Rio is going to get six Surface tables, which allows patrons to order drinks and play mini-games with their buddies. The most interesting is a "Flirt" application, which lets you try your luck electronically with people at other Surface tables without actually going over there and talking to them. How well does vomit come off of these things again? [Surface Blog]

1:10 PM on Thu Jun 12 2008
By Jason Chen
4,331 views, 84 comments

Latest by pashdown: "Erase this crap and put video poker on these things!" in 3.. 2.. 1.. more »

windows 7

Windows 7 Features Revealed

Here's what Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer revealed about Windows 7 at All Things Digital a few minutes ago. The biggest "feature" is the touch and multi-touch integration, which takes many of its roots from Microsoft's Surface Table, and will be available as an interface options for other apps. Here's some more stuff they pulled out, which we captured in photos here. More »

10:55 PM on Tue May 27 2008
By Jason Chen
77,449 views, 186 comments

Latest by n/a: @ChasityGanado: Every Pay-for OS X upgrade has upward of 200-300 features added. The only possible difference might be 10.6 but that is **SUPPOSED** to be a major over-haul to the code (enough so to dramatically increase speed on current models and decrease more »

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Microsoft TouchWall: Surface for the Common Man

While we found Microsoft's Surface interesting for retail contexts, it's simply too expensive (at $10,000) for the average consumer to get all that excited about. But Microsoft has an enticing alternative to the Surface called the TouchWall—a rear-projection system constructed from just "a few hundred dollars worth of readily available hardware." And their demonstration is more than a little impressive. More »

12:30 PM on Wed May 14 2008
By Mark Wilson
11,936 views, 19 comments

weird combo of the day

Microsoft Surface Model Now American Gladiator

Remember that Microsoft Surface model? The one that was a competitor on American Gladiators last season and actually managed to win the whole thing? She's actually a Gladiator now (her name is Jet), and really beefed up for the part. We would make a multi-touch joke here, but she'd break our fingers off and shove them into our eyeballs, so we won't. Hit the jump for her new photo. More »

9:30 PM on Tue May 13 2008
By Jason Chen
110,245 views, 71 comments

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Microsoft Surface + Xbox 360 = What?

Stefano from onthetabletop attended CHI 2008, where several members of the Microsoft Surface team was there tossing around ideas. One of the more interesting ideas, besides slimming down the table so it could fit inside spaces smaller than bars and AT&T stores, was shoving an Xbox 360 inside. Why would you do this? To allow the 360 to become an additional control input mechanism, possibly making RTS games SO MUCH EASIER TO PLAY. Will it happen? Who knows. These guys could have just been just daydreaming possible features to impress female attendees. [On the Tabletop]

7:45 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By Jason Chen
8,918 views, 20 comments

Latest by HeeroYuy01W: It's a 2D version of Tom Clancy's End War. If you watch the demo vid. that's basically what it is. Also it would be very sweet. more »

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Multi-grope: Interacting with Microsoft Surface at the AT&T Store

Microsoft's near-mythical Surface table just appeared at five AT&T Stores across the country (with seven more locations soon to get one), and we were happy to have a go with it this morning. As you'll see in the video, this one is programmed for mobile phone sales pitches, and doesn't have all of the fun apps we've heard about, but even here, Surface's massive, beautiful potential is obvious. More »

10:29 AM on Thu Apr 17 2008
By Benny Goldman
36,452 views, 87 comments

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AT&T Surface Retail Demo: Buying a Cellphone Finally Doesn't Suck

AT&T just ran us through a demo of what shopping with Microsoft's Surface at their stores is gonna be like. It's wayyy better than dealing with an embittered, ill-informed retail drone. You can dynamically check out coverage, smoothly zooming in and out for a fantastically detailed view of where you might get 3G, for instance. You can throw a phone on there and mess around with its features, or even better, slap two on the table and compare them head-to-head, feature-to-feature. Of course, it'll also sell you more shit, like the whole range of device accessories, or ringtones and media.

5:16 PM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By matt buchanan
7,710 views, 40 comments

Latest by spyguy99: Hmm, its a shame a lot of the AT&T stores are closing, at least in my area (near Chicago). It seems that all the stores are now owned by Verizon more »

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AT&T Stores the First to Get Microsoft's Surface Table

It looks like AT&T will be the first retailer to plunk down the coin for Microsoft's fancy-pants Surface table, installing them in its stores on April 17th. More »

10:30 AM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By Adam Frucci
9,706 views, 52 comments

Latest by Absent Blue: @cygnusx8: Yeah, we're so technologically declined to the point that Texas supports over a tenth of America's technology. Never mind the fact that we have some of the largest cities home to some of the largest technological giants like Dell, more »

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Microsoft Surface in Your House in 2011

For Microsoft, full speed-ahead on a cheaper consumer version of Surface, its multi-touch computer table, means 2011. Tom Gibbons, VP of Microsoft specialized apps and devices group says that "In the three-year time window, we absolutely see how to get there. If we can beat that, we'll try to beat that." Alas, it's Microsoft, so they're already running late on the initial launch to companies waving around a lot more money than you. Expect to hang onto your Ikea coffee table until 2012, to be safe. [Fortune]

3:40 PM on Thu Mar 27 2008
By matt buchanan
7,519 views, 21 comments

Latest by BlindKarma: Like my man Elliot Spitzer asked... How Much? more »

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Microsoft Reportedly Working on Sphere Shaped Version of Surface

By now you have probably heard quite a bit about Microsoft's "Surface" multi-touch table, and now ZDNet is claiming that the company has been showing off a sphere-shaped version of the technology around their campus. We know that Microsoft is pushing to get this technology into homes sooner rather than later, but a spherical device doesn't seem to be all that practical (unless you are a fortune teller or something). However, when it comes to the future of this device, we will just have to wait and see. [ZDNet via Electronista]

5:45 PM on Wed Mar 5 2008
By Sean Fallon
4,114 views, 39 comments

Latest by WMyers: I'm sure the coffee table form factor seemed like a great idea right up to when someone actually used it as a coffee table. I can't imagine an electronic surface that reacts all that well to hot, rough, wet, more »

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Microsoft's First Surface Game Will Thrill Out-of-Work Entomologists


The first game for Microsoft's Surface table has been demonstrated in an exclusive peek by SarcasticGamer.com, and all I can say is, it combines the spine-tingling excitement of a mobile-phone puzzle game with the spine-achiness that comes from hunching over the screen to play. More »

9:40 AM on Thu Feb 28 2008
By Wilson Rothman
4,489 views, 32 comments

weird combo of the day

Weird Combo of the Day: Microsoft Surface Model is Also an American Gladiators Contestant

Has it really been that long since we've had a Weird Combo of the Day? Well, it's back, and we've got an especially weird Weird Combo of the Day for you today. Do you remember Monica, the woman that's in all the press photos and web videos for Microsoft's Surface table? Turns out she's a contestant on American Gladiators as well. Don't believe us? Hit the jump. More »

8:10 PM on Tue Feb 12 2008
By Jason Chen
26,112 views, 41 comments

Latest by mr30gZune: what is this American gladiator you speak of? more »

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Microsoft Trying to Push Surface Out the Door Faster For Us, the Little People

Did you know? There's a lot of consumer demand for this whole touchscreen/surface computing thing. Also, five years is a long time to bring out a product after announcing it, right? Well, Microsoft knows this. Steve Ballmer said today they're "going to follow our nose" and put it to the grindstone to get a consumer version of its Surface touch computer out to your local Best Buy sooner, rather than way later after a total project re-boot with five different versions and horrible driver support. That's comforting. [CNet]

5:00 PM on Mon Feb 4 2008
By matt buchanan
6,493 views, 50 comments

Latest by deusdiabolus: @Computer_Chef: I'm with you on the function being defeated by the form. When this this gets released, it's only a matter of time before we see one in a movie or some television series, covered in cocaine residue and more »

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Wiimote Hack Converts TV into Touchless Microsoft Surface

This user interface project allows you to control objects on a display using gestures, working like Microsoft's Surface but without touching the screen at all. Inspired by Johnny Chung Lee's work, the system requires you to wear Minority Report-style gloves equipped with infrared emitters on your fingertips. A Wiimote on top of the display keeps track of these IR LEDs, while the software can read the motion down to two-finger pinching gestures for image zooming. Hopefuly, using it won't convert you into a sofa-jumping, grinning-crazy, Scientology-member maniac. [Oh Gizmo]

9:50 AM on Tue Jan 22 2008
By jesusdiaz
39,008 views, 29 comments

Latest by subskin: What are they doing to that poor baby in the background? Does this thing run on children's tears? Monsters... more »

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Bill Gates Farewell CES Keynote Cheat Sheet

Right this minute, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is taking the stage to face the adoring throngs at CES for the last time. Before he moves on to the greater task of solving the world's problems, he will look back on his previous keynotes, talk about where Microsoft is headed, and make a few final announcements. Here are the Cliff's Notes to his last CES speech ever:
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9:30 PM on Sun Jan 6 2008
By Wilson Rothman
29,294 views, 21 comments

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Windows 7 Getting Multi-Touch That Will "Blow Away" iPhone Users

One of the test engineers working on Windows 7, Hilton Locke, dropped a post today pimping Dell's Latitude XT that also contained this little nugget:
I will say that if you are impressed by the "touch features" in the iPhone, you'll be blown away by what's coming in Windows 7. Now if only we could convince more OEMs that Windows Touch Technology is going to drive their sales.
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6:40 PM on Wed Dec 12 2007
By matt buchanan
15,196 views, 81 comments

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Microsoft Surface Table Delayed - Picky Customers to Blame

Unfortunately for electronic table fetishists everywhere, you won't be able to walk into a restaurant, a casino or a retail outlet and play with a Microsoft Surface table until spring of next year. Why isn't it surfacing until then? Partners. More »

2:40 PM on Fri Nov 9 2007
By Jason Chen
6,640 views, 18 comments

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