Microsoft Surface

There is a new and exciting technology that the people at Microsoft have been working on called Surface. It uses a multi-point touch screen technology similar to what is used in the military for maps and can be seen in action on the new apple iphone.

Surface is the first commercially available surface computing platform from Microsoft Corporation. It turns an ordinary tabletop into a vibrant, interactive surface. The product provides effortless interaction with digital content through natural gestures, touch and physical objects. In essence, it’s a surface that comes to life for exploring, learning, sharing, creating, buying and much more. Soon to be available in restaurants, hotels, retail and public entertainment venues, this experience will transform the way people shop, dine, entertain and live.

Surface is a 30-inch display in a table-like form factor that’s easy for individuals or small groups to interact with in a way that feels familiar, just like in the real world. Surface can simultaneously recognize dozens and dozens of movements such as touch, gestures and will be able to recognize actual unique objects that have identification tags similar to bar codes.

If this technology gets ported to schools, it would make an interesting and new highly advanced class room. Imagine seeing what the teacher is presenting on the desk in front of you and being able to do other things like take notes and zoom into diagrams or slides.

(Information from the www.microsoft.com/surface)