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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 sole method of input. More »

12:12 AM on Wed May 30 2007
By Matt Buchanan
109,840 views, 137 comments

you can touch this

Microsoft's Mystery Product Is... A Touch-Sensitive Table?


Update: a new tipster has come with corroborative information—see below
Nearly 100 comments, and only one guy came close. According to an assortment of unrelated sources, the best guess is that tonight at midnight, Microsoft will finally launching its PlayTable concept as a full-blown entertainment product. ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley says PlayTable, aka Project Milan is a "multi-touch, gestural- and object-recognition interface technology" that Microsoft has demoed to a lot of people lately, but mainly as technology rather than a product in development. CrunchGear suggests that, based on a demo he saw, it might be a touch-friendly game console that competes with the Wii on intuitive user interface front. More »

8:46 PM on Tue May 29 2007
By Wilson Rothman
19,977 views, 45 comments

Latest by Will_USA: Are you guys not capable of seeing where this is going? Think 5 years down the road when this technology has progressed, gotten smaller, cheaper and has made its way to the tablet PC. Version 1 of anything is always more »