People. Remember the cool interface in Minority Report, where Tom Cruise just makes some funny gestures and manages to move things around? Well, we are almost there.
Microsoft recently unveiled a new technology called Microsoft Surface. Go have a look at the site, it is truly awesome.
Microsoft Surface is a new paradigm in man-machine interaction. By way of an interactive tabletop display, Microsoft demonstrated its Surface technology. Have a look at the cool video here. It uses the multi-touch (similar to the method used in the iPhone) for input. You can use your hands, or for that matter, any object to interact with this table. The video even has a kid drawing with all her 10 fingers!
But that’s not all! It recognizes whatever you place on it! If you place a cold glass of drink, it finds out and draws interactive bubbles on the surface. If you place a wireless enabled camera on it, it immediately downloads the photos and displays them. You can use multi-touch to play around with the photos, as you would do to real photos - dragging them, rotating them, and even dragging with two fingers to zoom into them. If you place a compatible phone on the table, you can even drag and drop the photos into the phone!
But here is the best part. Lets say this table is in a restaurant. After you are done with your meal, you can place your credit cards on the table, and decide who is going to pay how much by just moving around a slider! Wow, how cool is that! The multi-touch input method seems so natural, and the way the people play with maps in the video, wow, I couldn’t help but drool.
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Wow. Now, thats just amazing. Its like we are living the future.