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MS Surface... WOW
Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 5:06 pm
by [PX] Nebuchadnezzar
Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 6:47 pm
by Paragon
I'm still holding out for a LCARS system
Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 8:41 pm
by [PX] Nebuchadnezzar
There will be a Linux port of LCARS for this technology for sure.
Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 12:26 pm
by Paragon
Will it talk to me in the voice of majel rodenberry?
Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 1:42 pm
by Dempsey
Dude that would be all kinds of sweet
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:23 pm
by THE JEW (RaVeN)
This has actually been around for a while. In some ways, M$ just took this from this guy. Though, it's rumoured that they'll buy him out or something like that for legal purposes.
TED:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/65
http://www.perceptivepixel.com/
Mitsubishi has also (kinda) been doing this for quite some time:
http://www.merl.com/projects/DiamondTouch/
Granted, M$ provided some of the funding from what I gather on that one.
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:53 pm
by THE JEW (RaVeN)
Might be available by the end of the year:
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/surface.ars
Some cool videos in there.