Technobabble Tuesday

Technobable tuesday

A look at the Microsoft Surface hard at work

http://www.vectorform.com/surface/


While I'm not particularly interested in the political talk going on in the video ( although the idea of the 269-269 tie is hilarious to me) I love seeing the surface in action. I realize it's going to be several years before anyone in the general public can get their hands on one, nevermind anyone outside of the sates but this thing is looking better and better every time I see a new demo of it.

I'm thinking that while yes ads have shown it's likely to be a hit for big businesses like casino'ss and resaturants it also needs to have appeal to the rest of us and I tried to figure out exactly who might use it and why.

I can see it being a great asset to artists. Most tablets are pretty damn small and being able to draw on something as big as the surface would certainly make life easier. Digital colouring made easier and resizing with just the touch of a finger would certainly make it worth while depending on the cost. The fact that it can recognize multiple touchpoints at once could lead to group art projects at parties.

Infact the multiple touch recognition is what I love the most becuase I think it will have the most uses to everyday people. It seems like an item that could really gather people around the table so to speak and let everyone be involved. After a roadtrip friends could sit around the table and each pick out the photos they want to keep or toss from everyones camer'as at once, thus eliminating the needs for everyone to send everyoen else every single picturte they took. 5 people 5 camera and 1 table computer.

Blogging could be done with actual handwriting to add an even more personal touch.

The geek in me is thinking of some pretty cool applications of it that could be used to play D&D using the touch technology to move chars along maps. Perhaps with preprogrammed encounters if you touch a certain area




Clearly there's the possibly of really cool applications for music as well which could bring about a whole new generation of musicians creating music and mixes we can't even imagine yet.

In general I'm just happy to see the Microsoft surface getting more attention because it increases my hope that increased media exposure means it'll soon be available to the general populace.

Anyone have thoughts on what they'd do if they had one of these?