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SarcasticGamer makes this video detailing the reasons why you, Joe Average IT Guy, would want to buy a Microsoft Surface table. We're in for eight. – Jason Chen
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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...
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...
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 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...
Video of New Microsoft Surface Table Apps
T3 UK was late to the Surface Table coverage, but they did well by catching a video that shows off some visually stimulating concept apps that Chen wrote about a few weeks ago. I like the pond app that shows ripples on touch, and the multitouch...
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.
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...
Microsoft's Multi-touch laptop, Based on the Surface Table
Microsoft is using the mulit-touch technology that they implemented into their Surface Table and porting it to normal computers. Check out the video above of a demo of a laptop modified to use multi-touch.
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...
Microsoft Surface Confirmed: Touch-Sensitive, $10k, Minority Report Table
Project Milan is in fact a touch-sensitive table as you guys speculated and we reported earlier. Dubbed "Surface" and five years in the making, it's set to establish a paradigm of what Microsoft calls "surface computers" which use touch as the...
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...
Microsoft Surface Table In Depth Look
Remember Microsoft's gesture-based table computer called Surface? We got a hands-on of it back at All Things D, but Ars Technica got an in depth look, getting videos of some of the eight apps—some of which ship with it in late 2007.
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...
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...
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.
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...
ROSIE Coffee Table is Apple Surface
Apple may not have responded to Microsoft with a surface clone, but another company is stepping up to the plate for them. Home A/V company Savant has announced their new ROSIE coffee table, a 40-inch touchscreen Apple computer in a form...
Club Bill Gates, the Real Social
You know you've made it when random restaurants in Sarajevo are named after you, though I always envisioned Gates' place with a Surface at every table and a bit less residual grease on the windows. But that Sinatra-esque rendering of...
Multi-grope: Interacting with Microsoft Surface at the AT&T Store
newVideoPlayer("surfacehandson_giz.flv", 494, 276,"");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....
More Information Surfaces Regarding Microsoft's MP3 Player
The New York Times is reporting today with some new, juicy information about Microsoft's iPod rival that has been in the works and speculation for quite some time now.
Build Your Own Multitouch Table With the Cubit
Engineers at Eyebeam, a New York arts and technology center, are drastically reducing the cost of ownership for multitouch tables by taking them open-source. Schematics for the Cubit, a multitouch tabletop display, are available online for people...
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Problem with Samsung's new i600?
Complaints are surfacing about a bug in the Microsoft's Smartphone operating system affecting Samsung's new i600 handset. Apparently, if you have entered more than 150 contacts into its phone book, the i600 takes a ridiculously long time to look...
Microsoft Mobile, There's a Mouse On My Phone
Microsoft has filed a patent for a device incorporating a cell phone and trackpad based control for your PC, via WiFi. The application reads:
Zune Pink and Orange Pics Surface, Red On the Way?
You've probably already read our posts about the pink and orange Zunes that'll be rolling out in May, but the pictures we had at the time left a lot to be desired. Now the guys at Zune Scene have gotten their hands on some great-looking shots,...
Optimus Tactus Touch Keyboard Should Be Called Optimus Retardus
While we love touch surfaces, as people who type hundreds of thousands a word each week we know that there is a limit to them: keyboards. Like this Optimus Tactus, an extruded shape/touch surface/keyboard concept by Art.Lebedev. We really like the...
New No-Touch Surface Gives You Jedi Powers
This evolution of Jeff Han's multitouch surface doesn't require touching, allowing you to manipulate objects Jedi-style thanks to infrared camera tracking overhead. This makes possible the use of conventional software, like a web browser, while...
Seattle Columnist Sez Microsoft Portable Player, Argo, Will Be More Than an iPod Rival
Last week we got some juicy initial information regarding the portable media player that Microsoft has in the works. Today a juicy little column appeared in the Seattle Times that has a boatload of information about this...
That Blu-rayin' is Hard, Sez Microsoft
Now we hear from our beloved basement-dwelling brothers at Kotaku that Microsoft spokespeople are saying that Blu-ray discs are apparently "hard to make." There's an extra layer of copy protection on Blu-ray discs,...
