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Microsoft Surface, Microsoft Corp.'s first commercially available surface computer, breaks down the traditional barriers between people and technology to provide effortless interaction with all forms of digital content through natural gestures, touch and physical objects instead of a mouse and keyboard.
Another place to see a Blue Screen of Death.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/65
Mitsubishi has been working on something like this for years now. I saw it demoed at NextFest last year. It was totally sweet. http://www.merl.com/projects/DiamondTouch/
He plays Warcraft! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXAqdh4-hcwc
They've been working on it for 6 years now... and they've been working with the guys who came up with multitouch etc.
You could say that Apple copied multitouch, but I bet none of you did, because, hey, it's Apple, they never do that.
It's not copying in any of these cases, it's taking a cool technology (multitouch) and turning it into something really useful.
I believe that this is really the most useful demonstration of the technology yet.
Another similar surprise I learned about today in a TED talk.
These two technologies combined make my skull feel small.
soon they will develop this so that it can fit in thin spaces, such as embedded in a wall or any other surface (or even flexible!!!) i want one of those gigantic wall sized ones from perceptivepixel
rubadub: So incorporating means nobody can steal you intellectual property?
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I'm not asserting that MS stole JH's invention, I'm just saying it LOOKS like a copy. Did PP inc sell it to MS? Did MS copy some integral part of JH's system to get the project they had been "working on for 6 years" to function? I don't know (and likely neither does anybody else here)
MS has a history of taking other peoples ideas without attribution (as does Apple to a lesser degree) so am I out of my mind to assert that this MIGHT be the case again? I'm not going to drop $50K to pull one of these appart to find out, so we are all guessing at this point.
I thought that JH's demo at TED was appropriate. I know his work is based on an original system which he invented. It seems reasonable to me to referance "new" devolopments which look an awful lot like his system by pointing to JH as a pioneer in the field, and perhaps inventer of the technology.
Press: "MS presents X!"
People: "X is a rip off! X will break down! WAHHHHHHH! WAHHHHHHH!"
They make a lot of money. Step 1: If you don't like them, don't buy from them. Step 2: SHADDUP!
And don't give me that "you can pay an extra $500 for a virgin laptop" crap either.
MS is the only company I don't like, from which I can not reasonably not purchase software (which I promptly delete).
Can't do step 1, won't do step 2.
So am I annoyed with them? yes.
Does that make my comments untrue? no.
and, if you really wanted, there's ways to get OSX running on an IBM-compat, so...
Microsoft doesn't steal so much as they acquire... if you own the company that invented it, it's yours...