Microsoft Surface!!! The next big thing!

What is Microsoft Surface™?

Microsoft Surface turns an ordinary tabletop into a vibrant, interactive surface. It's the first 

commercially-available surface computing platform from Microsoft. The product provides effortless access to digital content through natural gestures, touch and physical objects. Today, it's a30-inch diagonal display in a table-like form factor that's easy for individuals or multiple people to interact with in a way that feels familiar, just like in the real world. In essence, it's a 

surface come to life for exploring, learning, sharing, creating, buying and much more. Today 

Microsoft Surface is available in the retail, hospitality, automotive, banking and healthcare 

industries. Consumers can interact with Surface at select AT&T retail locations, at the iBar located in the Rio All Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas and at select Sheratons in the U.S.

It features four key attributes:

Direct Interaction: Users can actually "grab" digital information with their hands - interacting 

with content by touch and gesture, without the use of a mouse or keyboard.

Multi–Touch: Surface computing recognizes many points of contact simultaneously, not just from one finger like with a typical touch–screen, but up to dozens of items at once.

Multi–User: The horizontal form factor makes it easy for several people to gather around Microsoft Surface together, providing a collaborative, face–to–face computing experience.

Object Recognition: Users can place physical objects on the display to trigger different types of 

digital responses; in the future, this will include the ability to transfer digital content.

How does Microsoft Surface work?

Microsoft Surface uses cameras to sense objects, hand gestures and touch. This user input is then processed and displayed using rear projection. Specifically:

Microsoft Surface uses a rear projection system which displays an image onto the underside of a thin diffuser.

Objects such as fingers are visible through the diffuser by series of infrared–sensitive cameras, 

positioned underneath the display.An image processing system processes the camera images to detect fingers, custom tags and other objects such as paint brushes when touching the display.

The objects recognized with this system are reported to applications running in the computer so that they can react to object shapes, 2D tags, movement and touch.

 Courtesy:Microsoft Surface

Ok people personally i believe this product is going to change the way we interact with computers......Surface is indeed the next big thing!