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more about #microsoftsurface more comments → lostarchitect: I read that as, "armed with butt blades". I am a sad person. #ddsurface more » soggy_cheerio: Meh. Doesn't make the gameplay any more compelling. This, [arstechnica.com] interested me far more. #ddsurface more » GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday: I have a flash drive of holding rated at +12GB. #ddsurface more » OMG! Ponies!: Is there any way to make a Dungeons & Dragons gazebo? #ddsurface more » Bokusatsu_Tenshi: This could be interesting... couple of months ago. But now? Meh. Project Natal + Mod. Instead of having a stinking table filled with handgrease, ger... more » the real that guy dave: Pirated Ice Age 3, nicely done. I keep all my "backups" on a media server as well. more » green or blue: not about this article whatsoever, but anyone else notice they pulled the apple tablet article? more » kylenalepa: Very impressive. Maximum PC had an article a few months back on how to make your own multi-touch table (article here) It might be worth making that a ... more » Adam Curry: Starcraft II anyone? more » dallasmay2: Wow. For only $10,000 I can buy a kick Ass arcade game. What else is MS Surface good for? Oh that's it. Really, that's it? A $10,000 game console? A... more » macegr: Touchscreen table does not equal Microsoft Surface, let's try to separate user interface hardware from a software concept. Tilting a touchscreen 90 de... more » Eruanno: It looks like he's spending more time fiddling with the camera than he does controlling his units and actually playing the game. more » kswiss19: A touch screen on a table makes me think of the book "Ender's Game" more » robinandtami: Something like that might actually make playing an RTS kind of fun! more » Pessimippopotamus: Touchscreens will also make Black and White complete. How much I love Black and White. more » -
#surface
Dungeons & Dragons on the Microsoft Surface
For thousands of years, none of us quite understood the point of the Surface. Then, a few Carnegie Mellon students armed with but blades and wits developed this D&D game, and they lightning bolted the naysayers away. [Microsoft via Kotaku] -
#multitouch
CRISTAL: Control Your Living Room By Dragging, Dropping, Swiping a Surface Table
CRISTAL is a research project that moves the universal remote to a Microsoft Surface-type table with incredibly intuitive gestures. Want to watch a movie? Drag the cover to your TV. It even lets you trace a path for your Roomba. More » -
#touchscreen
This Is Exactly What Touchscreen Surfaces Were Invented For
Generally I skim through videos of more than one minute. This video demo of Ruse running on a Microsoft Surface is 4:23, and I watched every second of it in complete amazement. And then, I watched it again. [Thanks Oscar] -
#twitter
SurfaceTwitter Is Like TweetDeck on Multitouch Steroids
Holy crap: a multitouch Twitter app for Surface. The capabilities are a little basic now—only 25 recent tweets are shown in ScatterView, where you can manipulate them—but thinking about the possibilities explode my brain. [Microsoft via Gartenberg] -
#foreverbeta
Asus 'Seamless Experience' Concept Knows More About Your Coffee Than You Do
This slick Seamless Experience video from the Asus Computex booth is a neat glimpse at a future where even coffee cups have a story to tell. It looks, unsurprisingly, like Microsoft Surface. Let the marketing concept arms race commence. More » -
#clips
Microsoft Presents Us With Their Vision of the Future
XUI, or experience-user-interface, is Microsoft's anticipated evolution of the NUI, or natural user interface (a la Surface). What's that really mean? It means something amazing—essentially computers/life rethought. More » -
#surface
Microsoft Surface Is an Incredible User Experience That Sucks a Whole Bunch to Setup
Surface is a triumph of Microsoft usability and design. It's a multitouch table computer. Minority Report! And so on. Setting it up, however? Ominous foreshadowing: It comes with a keyboard and mouse. More » -
#multitouch
Maximum PC Builds a Surface-like Multitouch PC for $350
Maximum PC didn't like the idea of paying $12,000 for a Microsoft Surface. So what did they do? They made their own multitouch table PC for a fraction of the price. More » -
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#microsoftsurface
Microsoft Survey Hints At "Oahu," Surface Multitouch Table At Consumer Prices
Microsoft is at least considering releasing a consumer-priced version of its Surface computer, if a marketing research survey is to believed. The survey is centered around a device called “Oahu,” which, from its description, sounds a lot like the table we've all come to know and love: a multitouch flat screen that sits like a table top and allows for multiple users to interact with it at once. More »





