Microsoft’s Surface technology has always been some very cool technology. If you’re a casino, or other big money business that can afford to play the game. I guess it’s no real surprise that after the release of Windows Phone 7 we’d see a Surface 2.0 update since one of the appealing factors of the Surface [...]
Looks like Microsoft continues to try and push the envelope when it comes to touch. According to a recently filed patent they’ve created a method of touching a surface to create a different tactile experience that makes users think they are touching a 3D like surface. According to an article on New Scientist, Microsoft is [...]
The Microsoft Kinect sensor is one of the most impressive bits of consumer technology released this year and it’s going to impact much more than just the XBOX 360. A team of engineers has hacked the Kinect sensor to control a Windows 7 PC. In this demo you can see how a user can control [...]
If you’ve drooled over the Microsoft Surface or any of the other futuristic touch projects coming out of Microsoft’s labs, you’ll appreciate the following video of a hacked connect that maks any surface touchable. Microsoft sold a million Kinect sensors within 10 days of it going on sale and expects to sell another four million [...]
Here’s an interesting video from the National Taiwan University. A rig consisting of a pico projector and camera can fir in to any standard light bulb socket and project on the surface below. The camera allows the system to sense touches and gestures. In the video, gestures are used to focus in on buildings. The [...]
Along with a Mobile Surface concept, Microsoft also has a different kind of touch experience that might make your skin crawl a bit. It’s called Skinput. Apparently touchable armbands worn on your bicep can pick up different touch inputs. Because of differences in bone density, tissue mass, and muscle makeup, unique acoustical signatures can be [...]
I got to stop by the Microsoft Surface team’s office yesterday in Redmond. They gave us a very thorough explanation of how the Surface works and then we got to play with some applications, games and testing tools. I’ve seen Microsoft Surface demos several times at tech trade shows, but I haven’t had such an [...]
Long Zheng posted up a couple of very intriguing videos that show off some work from a group at Microsoft called Volume Studios. These go beyond concepts to what is described as a ““poetic narrative†on how developing technologies could possibly blend into our daily lives. The UI is called the experience-user-interface (XUI) and is [...]
The healthcare industry is getting a lot of focus these days and Microsoft Surface is right in the mix of it. For our readers interested in healthcare and multi-touch, you might want to checkout Surface at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society HiMSS09 conference where a multitude of applications geared around enhancing the [...]
I stopped by the Microsoft booth at Web 2.0 in San Francisco yesterday. Microsoft had several developers showing off their applications and I recorded a couple of demos. In this GBM InkShow Kevin, from Clarity Consulting showed me some apps he developed, including a T-Shirt design application and a wedding-registry application.
Over on Channel 9′s show The Knowledge Chamber Joe Fletcher is discussing the presentation he’s going to debut at MIX09 with host Robert Hess. In the presentation he’ll be talking about the future of touch and gesture computing in Windows 7 and Microsoft Surface. If you’re interesting in hearing about some aspect of touch and/or [...]
Long Zheng of istartedsomething has uncovered video from Microsoft Office Labs that shows the vision for 2019. I have to say what we see in the video looks pretty amazing and I’m sure we’d all like to get where this video shows us going. A number of the technologies we’re seeing in their infancy today [...]
The Surface team has been on a blogging roll lately and have published four really good articles and some videos you should take a look at. Here is a quick excerpt from one of them covering natural user interface – head over to their site to read the rest. Have I said lately that I [...]
Add this to the “looks very cool” folder. What if you take some memory foam and create a touchable surface? Well the folks behind Dis.Play (great name by the way) are showing off some possibilities that might bend and push our ideas about touch interfaces around a bit, at least the ones that rely [...]
I’m a huge fan of natural user interface technologies (NUI) such as pen, ink, touch, multi-touch, speech, etc. I especially love exploring the technical and usability issues that NUI present. As such, I’ve really been enjoying reading Point & Do – a website devoted to natural user interface technologies. Jonathan, the author of the site, [...]
Leave it to those MIT geniuses to wow you – with just $350 in phones, pico projector, a web cam, and some wiz-bang programming, a digital sixth-sense is becoming closer to reality, turning every surface into a display screen. The brains behind this setup is MIT student Pranav Mistry. This sure does give a whole [...]
Ok – this is an absolutely cool app from Stimulant – place your iPhone on a Microsoft Surface, and then you’ll see an x-ray type of picture on the phone. Zoom the picture on the Surface, and the picture zooms on the iPhone. Connect multiple iPhones together and pan across multiple pictures on a Surface. [...]
This Sunday is all about football, food, and commercials. Fortunately, I’ll be kicking back in my recliner taking it all in. For those blessed to have tickets, though, they’ll also have to contend with the normal security issues that come along with such a high profile event. It turns out that Microsoft’s Surface is playing [...]
Dr. Neil Roodyn, a long time friend of this site and many in the Tablet PC space, met up with the Surface team to go over some new education centered applications built for Microsoft Surface. Dr. Roodyn’s company is called nsquared. Those who follow touch, multi-touch, and education will love what nsquared is working on. [...]
Microsoft Surface is drawing a crowd at the NBC Universal booth. People seem to really enjoy the experience.
According to this posting at the Surface team blog, developers looking to get on the PDC special pricing on Surface units have a bit more time. The $13,500 discounted price, which includes 5 licenses of the SDK, has been extended to the end of November. Learn more about Surface.com
Microsoft’s Surface team has officially unveiled the limited $13,500 pricing for developers interested in taking Surface natural user interface development to the next level. This limited offer, which also includes 5 SDK licenses, will expire on November 15, so interested developers better act fast. In addition to this limited pricing, attendees at PDC2008 Surface sessions [...]
At their Professional Developers Conference next week, Microsoft will be making special developer versions of the Surface available for sale at $13,500 each, which includes 5 SDK licenses. Hmm, I wonder what the airlines will charge for that extra piece of luggage……
Hysterical. I saw this live last night on Saturday Night Live’s Thursday night edition, which is having pretty regular fun parodying all things about the election. Now they set their sights on those fabulous multi-touch maps that show us which state is red, blue, pink, or purple. When he bounces Michigan, I lost it completely. [...]
Microsoft’s Surface team just posted a video demoing a new multi-touch app from Vectorform that allows you to virtually carve a pumpkin. Vectorform is the same team working with MSNBC and their Surface implementation. I can’t wait to see what apps get developed once folks get their hands on the Surface SDK. Video at the [...]
From a technology persepctive, this election might be known as the birth of multi-touch. CNN has been using a multi-touch wall, while MSNBC.com has utilized a multi-touch Microsoft Surface table with an overhead to display what is being moved around. Two different approaches to accomplish the same thing: engage the audience with dynmically changing content [...]
I’ve been following everything Microsoft Surface since its’ grand unveiling. There is so much potential for the technology that reaches beyond the current “big table” approach. Whatever we see come out of Surface will make its way in to many other techologies. I suspect we’ll see Surface’s imprint all over Windows 7. If you are [...]
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