Microsoft Surface

Microsoft Moving Surface Off the Table and Into Your Home

Kit Eaton — Thu, 14 May 2009 07:05:02 -0400

Microsoft's Surface shows off the capabilities of multi-touch computing admirably, but it's still limited by the machine's box. It's no surprise then to find plans to take Surface off a flat screen and dot it all over your home.

The BBC video below, shot inside Microsoft's showcase house of the future--The Microsoft Home--which is designed to demonstrate technology that may come to our homes in "five-to-ten years." Though the Microsoft Home isn't exactly a new concept, we still thought the BBC video was pretty cool, so we'll show you anyway:

11 Killer Apps for Microsoft Surface [Video]

Chris Dannen — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:07:00 -0400

Microsoft's interactive table, dubbed Surface, brings the heady dream of interactive computing closer reality. As developers find ways to make Surface's gorgeous multi-user interface shine, more and more companies are turning to the device to reinvent their customer experience.

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Microsoft's Surface 2.0-aka SecondLight-Due in Two Years

Kit Eaton — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:07:34 -0400

Microsoft's Surface has always been a slightly baffling product: It's a real multi-touch large-screen PC with almost sci-fi levels of cleverness, but costs a whopping $10,000, so it's out of most people's reach. But clearly Microsoft loves the device, or at least its core concept, since a new Surface 2.0 will be out within two to three years.
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A Touchscreen for Super Bowl Security

Cliff Kuang — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:08:04 -0500

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Tech Watch: The Minority Report Computer Is Real

Chris Dannen — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:00:05 -0500

If you saw Minority Report, you probably saw the multi-screen, gesture-based interface that Tom Cruise uses to pull up police files and though, “That's cool. But I'll never live to see that thing invented.” Then you might have seen Microsoft demo its Surface operating system, and thought that's as close as the world would ever get to intuitive, mouse-and-keyboard-free computing.
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