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Microsoft Surface - Tabletop Computer. You won't believe this until you see it. It's actually real. No mouse, no keyboards, but you can touch it and guess what . . . It actually feels you.
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There are 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 it 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 colors
Microsoft Surface Features
Main interface components: Direct interaction, multi-touch contact, a multi-user experience, and object recognition.
Multi-user experience: Typical computers accept only one keyboard and a mouse. Microsoft Surface accepts multiple inputs from multiple users. More than one person sitting across the Surface, can do independent work on the same Surface.
Object recognition: The system can identify physical objects placed on the Surface. It can relate the appropriate software for the appropriate item placed on surface. Objects may be recognized based on their shape or on special codes ( like barcodes) affixed to them.
Orientation: Horizontal – like a table to allow users to use, share and create experiences together.
CPU: Core 2 Duo processor
Processor: 1 GHz processor.
Installed Memory: 2GB of RAM
Hard drive: Yes
Graphics Card: 256MB graphics card.
Projector: DLP light engine like the one used in rear-projection HDTV.
Cameras: Five cameras with infrared filters - net resolution of 1280 x 960
Material: The tabletop is acrylic, and its interior frame is powder-coated steel.
Surface: Not touch-sensitive surface. When you place or drag a finger, internal projector lights screen from beneath.
Power Supply: Standard American 110–120V power
Operating System: The custom software platform runing on Windows Vista
Network Connectivity: Wired Ethernet 10/100 and wireless 802.11 b/g and Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity.
Dimensions: 22 inches high, 21 inches deep and 42 inches wide.
Weight: 150 pounds
Other features:
Drag & Drop: Like any widows Operating system, all items can be dragged and dropped.
Automatic Identification: Can identify objects. Place your Digital camera on the surface and you can see the photos displayed on the surface without actually downloading!
Initial customers: Harrah's Entertainment, Starwood Hotels and Resorts, T-Mobile and IGT.
Ideal for: Restaurants, games, shops and Entertainment
Microsoft Surface Approximative Price: US$ 10000
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