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By: Ghillie Suits » Surface Tunnels

Ghillie Suits » Surface Tunnels — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:19:09 +0000

[...] Check it out! While looking through the blogosphere we stumbled on an interesting post today.Here’s a quick excerpt Eric Meyer brings his ideas on Microsoft Surface on the table. Saved By: Ianus Keller | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: fotofuck, surface, multitouch, interface, microsoft [...]

By: Stephen Donner

Stephen Donner — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:44:49 +0000

I actually thought first of Asteroids, rather than Pac-man, due to the fact that Asteroids as an arcade game was burned in memory from its days as the first game table I ever saw inside of Sears…

By: k-ny

k-ny — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 20:03:05 +0000

Wow, impressive !

By: Subism » Blog Archive » ‘Surface’ reactions

Subism » Blog Archive » ‘Surface’ reactions — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 01:12:49 +0000

[...] Meyer NAILED my first thought about Microsoft’s new ‘Surface’ computing device. I watched all [...]

By: Joe Lewis

Joe Lewis — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:40:52 +0000

Hey looks like they're ramping up for this on the software side: Microsoft Waxes Nostalgic With 'Pac-Man' Update :-)

By: Del Hager

Del Hager — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:24:30 +0000

Reality is better then fiction. How about black jack, roulette, dice, etc being the games of choice. Take a look at the the two biggest sponsors for Surface: Harrahs and IGT. Imagine what they are going to be using these tables for?

By: Adrian Lee

Adrian Lee — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:04:48 +0000

I thought Surface was a pretty good name for it actually, not a very typical MS name. At least they don’t just put a lower case ‘i’ in front of everything :)

Would be great for alsorts of games like pacman :)
If it could really connect up to phones and digital cameras like the videos suggest, that’s pretty awesome, I’ll wait till I see it in action for myself before deciding quite how cool it is though.

By: Frederick Townes

Frederick Townes — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:00:03 +0000

My first thought was, hmmm, Minority Report (2002) – where John Anderton (Tom Crusise) is using special gloves and huge transparent display to “scrub” video content or how about The Island (2005). Truly loved seeing xbox live be physical and Merrick (Sean Bean) was using surface during his one-on-one session with Lincoln Six Echo (Ewan McGregor). I really enjoyed that film – great example of “suspension of disbelief”. (Gotta love IMDb). Anyway, “surface” is long overdue.

By: Ben Buchanan

Ben Buchanan — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 05:34:37 +0000

To be honest, the first thing I thought was “hmm, didn’t I see some uni doing that ages ago?”.

Then I thought, “looks nifty but fraught with problems”. Then someone told me that half the features are vapourware anyway – they don’t even have a proof of concept for the credit card thing, it’s just a “funky idea”. This is of course hearsay and people should not believe or sue me for saying it :)

Then I thought “it’s a big tablet/touch screen” which led to “hey, Puzzle Bobble would rock!” :)

By: Vaspers the Grate aka Steven E. Streight

Vaspers the Grate aka Steven E. Streight — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:56:00 +0000

Sorry about multiple comments, but you Twittered about Technorati widget not working, slowing site speed. Technorati Twittered today about a BigIP failure, still working on it.

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By: Vaspers the Grate aka Steven E. Streight

Vaspers the Grate aka Steven E. Streight — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:32:46 +0000

BTW, Mark Hatham appears to be an anonymous internet troll. Leaving gmail dot com as his URL. What a jerk.

By: Vaspers the Grate aka Steven E. Streight

Vaspers the Grate aka Steven E. Streight — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:31:17 +0000

Surface Computing is an old idea, and Jeff Hans of Perceptive Pixel has already done a lot of work on this. The iPhone app seems gimmicky.

I seem to recall a Sony video on YouTube about 2 – 3 years ago that demonstrated multi-touch interfaces and sliding transparent squares around on a table as a form of file management and functionality configuration.

And even some interactive fish. I wish I would have Favorited those videos, difficult to find again now.

Sidenote: They don’t seem to be teaching CSS or cross browser compatibility very well, in university web design courses.

By: David Mead

David Mead — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:30:20 +0000

I saw it on the TODAY show and it looked ok. The touch sensitive seems a lot like the work I saw @ SXSW from Mine Control. Jeff Han (who had the cool Minority Report-esque screens) spun his idea off into a company. That was in Jan "07 and it still looks better than the MS one :-) I can see MS's approach to retail being a good one, but it's big, clunky and typing on a flat glass surface will destroy your fingers :-)

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:14:53 +0000

Eric, I think that’s the file manager. :)

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:14:55 +0000

I almost thought of that when i saw the demo Eric, but i was thinking more of asteroids. :-)