Microsoft Surface

Microsoft Surface, initially released in early 2008, is gaining more popularity as it becomes available to more individuals. You may remember seeing Microsoft Surface's technology in the hit TV program CSI as well as during the 2008 presidential elections on MSNBC.

Microsoft Surface, code named Milan, is a surface computing platform that responds to a user's hand gestures and real world objects such as cell phone and digital cameras. Surface is similar to a very large touch-screen computer that you can interact with. Most models that have been used for TV shows and news casts have been placed up-right similar to a TV screen but Microsoft Surface is actually manufactured to set horizontally in a coffee table or other flat desk top surface. There has even been talk about placing Microsoft Surface inside kitchen counters of high-tech homes.

Users can interact with Surface by dragging/re-sizing pictures, videos, and programs around the screen and from one device to another without even plugging the devices into the platform. Microsoft Surface theoretically takes digital data and makes it physical again for us to move and manipulate.

Of course, this device is rather expensive and currently available only for use in high-end applications such as TV, hospitals, hotels, and casinos. The going price for a Microsoft Surface platform is between $2,000 and $5,000.

Check out this video of Surface in action! Completely mind-blowing!

http://video.popularmechanics.com/services/link/bcpid932579976/bclid932553050/bctid933742930

The day I get my hands on one of these is the day I never leave home again!!!!

Microsoft Surface Website: http://www.microsoft.com/surface/Default.aspx