Barely a week ago I was joking I’d rather wait for this input device than buy the $1564.37 Optimus Maximus. Little did I know how close we were to getting our hands on it – literally.
Tomorrow at the D Conference Microsoft will unveil the Surface Computer – an entirely new way of human – machine interaction. As usual, TechCrunch has the story. Instead of me trying to describe it, why don’t you watch it.
It’s been a while we’ve seen real innovation coming from Microsoft. I guess they are not entirely dead, after all.
Update (5/30): Who would have thought that Bill Gates gets to be the cool guy at his joint appearance with Steve Jobs at D5? Btw, Bill, since this thingie can recognize objects, how about making them? If you really want to be cool, next give me a StartTrek Replicator 🙂
Surface Computer
Everyone is on about this and for good reason this is just AWESOME!!!
I won’t say much though just go read! Or better yet check out the video on Zoli’s blog!
IS THAT REALLY
an entirely new way of human – machine interaction ?
google searches: “Jeff Han”
“reactable” and pobably a lot others …
Not “entirely new” – but I still consider it innovation coming from Microsoft. I am linking to Jeff Han’s video in the very first sentence.
This is why MSFT has always tried to supplant the term “invention” with “innovation”. Whenever they decide to imitate somebody else’s invention, it’s much harder to say they’re not “innovating”; after all, it’s the first time *MSFT* did it. 🙂
But they didn’t have to actually invent anything, they only had to trademark a name….