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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
4,907 views, 15 comments

Latest by strider_mt2k: That Backgammon looks very nice. 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
34,268 views, 85 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
7,217 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
9,532 views, 49 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
7,026 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
4,031 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
4,436 views, 32 comments

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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
22,261 views, 40 comments

Latest by Pensador: She looks hotter on the Surface ad. 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
6,445 views, 49 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 Jesus Diaz
38,427 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
29,019 views, 21 comments

Latest by JENNYZAPP: The best part had to be the celebrity cameos! [www.webcastr.com] more »

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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
14,153 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
6,577 views, 18 comments

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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 paint app that can read all 10 fingers at once. Too bad these things are so expensive and for commercial use only. But this video? It's free and worth watching. Plus, the techno makes it all exciting and futurish. [Youtube]

4:45 PM on Mon Oct 15 2007
By Brian Lam
3,566 views, 16 comments

Latest by cello: @mrrobotanger: It is choppy. Maybe not Superman 64 choppy. But not "WHOA! looks at those bubbles! It's like magic!" smooth either. Expect someone else to come out with a better, faster version of this before MS even gets v.1 out the more »

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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. More »

4:45 PM on Mon Oct 1 2007
By Jason Chen
14,634 views, 38 comments

Latest by tchangtx: Reminds me of Buck Rogers. Needs cheesy discos music with weird dancers that have lightropes all over their costumes in the backrgound. more »

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Taito Touchscreen Arcade Card Battle Game Looks Like MS Surface

Japanese arcade fans should get ready to pull out their lightning bolt, lightning bolt, lightning bolt, because this Taito touchscreen arcade game looks pretty awesome. The Engrish Google translation leaves us wondering at how exactly the game works, but from what we can gather, you put real cards onto the virtual board, which makes stuff happen on the video screen up top, which then determines whether you win or lose the battle. We're going to guess lose, since that's the only way the game will force you to plunk down another 500 Yen for four new cards. [Impress]

2:50 PM on Mon Sep 17 2007
By Jason Chen
6,115 views, 12 comments

Latest by kronik: I saw a commercial on these whilst I was in japan, and it kinda works like a RTS game, where you have to move around your cards on the screen to make the characters move. Looks pretty nifty. And yet more »

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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 reminiscent of Microsoft's Surface. More »

10:00 AM on Wed Sep 5 2007
By Mark Wilson
16,023 views, 25 comments

Latest by jchan28: that table sure reminds me of one rosie haha ROSIE O' DONNELL IT IS more »

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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 Bill—dead on. More »

10:32 AM on Mon Aug 13 2007
By Mark Wilson
2,238 views, 10 comments

Latest by lindsey8675: I'll bet this is a mac fan-boy bar and the name's actually a suggestion. more »