MICROSOFT SURFACE!!

I had no idea this amazing piece of technology even existed until it was shown in class. It made me ponder about how technology is rapidly changing and is starting to evolve to make the future arrive faster. It makes us think about the possibilties of future technology.

The new microsoft tabletop is extremely unique in the sens that one can touch a colour in the one-screen palette and draw an image on the screen. For example, you can touch the colour blue and draw perhaps a sky out odf it with your own fingers. It sort of reminds me of finger painting classes when we were in kindergarten, except that it is now in the form of new technology.


The possibilites of Microsoft surface are endless. It can be made in such a way that understands all your finger's commands and also recognizes various objects. The system can even be designed to set up a plate on the surface and the system throws up a menu. We just have to sit back and wait for technology to progess to see much more amazing things ahead of us.



The Microsoft Surface is not simply just another touch-screen compuer, it represents the future.
No longer do we have to use a keyboard and mouse. Navigation can be done by touching the menu and it can do much more things which a few years ago we would have thought impossible.

The Features of Microsoft Surface


Microsoft notes four main components being important in it's interface: directinteraction, multi-touch contact, a multi-user experience, and object recognition. This device also enables drag and drop digital media when wi-fi enabled devices are placed on its surface such as a Microsoft Zune, cellular phones, or digital cameras. It features multi-touch technology, that enables multiple points of contact.

This technology allows non-digital objects to be used as input devices. This means that the source of information does not necessarily have to be digital in form.This is because,the technology does not rely on restrictive properties, such as the capacitance, electrical resistance, or temperature of the tool used .

Direct interaction: Facility to manage digital information with hand gestures and touch instead on mouse and keyboard.

Multi-touch contact: User need not use only one finger to manage digital data. If user dips five fingers in five different colors in the on screen paint palette and draws five lines with five fingers, you get five lines with five colours.

The Possibilities of the Microsoft Surface

It depends on the creativity of the solution developers and the willingness of the businesses to change their infrastructure to accommodate Microsoft Surface.

Restaurants may have custom built furniture to sit around the Microsoft Surface, which wotks as a table as well as a computer. The menus pop up based on specific cutlery, so that one can select the items to be ordered. Send emails or browse the net Play games till the items are served. These are just a few of the Possibilities of Microsoft Surface.


You go to a mobile stores and want to check the models you like and compare few models. Just pick them off the rack and place them on the Microsoft Surface. You can see the features as well as the comparisons. You then select one model and check out the accessories for that mobile phone. Drag them to the order menu. Check the ringtones. Drag them to the Mobile phone, so that they are automatically loaded on to the mobile phone. Check the items selected and the bill. Add items or delete items simply by dragging in or out of the menu with your hands. Once you are ready, confirm the bill. You also may be able to pay the bill by simply placing the credit card on the Microsoft Surface and drag the bill to the creditcard. And there goes your payment safely and securely and you need not give the credit card to anyone for swiping. Such are the possibilities that make your shopping memorable.


It may not be a distant dream where the teachers may have a Microsoft Surface to teach the students. Students may have a custom built hardware where they can create their assignments. They place these special devices on the Microsoft Surface. The teacher may see the assignment instantly and help the student. With this kind of possibilities of Microsoft Surface, learning could become fun.