I figured this would have been posted already.

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/

Just thought I'd share.

I'm pretty sure there was a thread about something like this a couple months back, but I don't think it was a Microsoft app. Did Microsoft buy them out?

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/30/127246

This was just released by MS, so any previous post was probably some other vendor.

Originally posted by cougar694u
This was just released by MS, so any previous post was probably some other vendor.

Its been around for a while. Microsoft has been developing the concept since around 2000-2001. If you check the Origins link on the Microsoft link you posted you can get a brief overview.

Also many tech sites such as www.gizmodo.com & www.ubergizmo.com have been following the story for quite some time now. I wouldn't exactly call it "just released" but maybe "just released to the idiotic masses"

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/sticker-shock/video-of-bill-gates-showing-off-his-expensive-table-264453.php

Someone linked to a video a while back of one of the guys who helped come up with this sort of thing at a tech show playing around with it. I don't recall any mention of MS in the presentation. ;)

Still, pretty cool until your mom sits down on the sofa and "Weapons of Ass Destruction 19" resumes where you left off last night...

Originally posted by DR1665
pretty cool until your mom sits down on the sofa and "Weapons of Ass Destruction 19" resumes where you left off last night...

roflmao..

Originally posted by vegasdsmr

Originally posted by DR1665 pretty cool until your mom sits down on the sofa and "Weapons of Ass Destruction 19" resumes where you left off last night...

roflmao..

best 30 seconds ever

DISCLAIMER This product is guaranteed against defects for a period not to exceed fifteen minutes of your unpacking it wherein one of your dumbfuck friends will have the audacity to put his feet up on the screen surface, thereby puncturing the magic, crystalline membrane, and leaking Bill Gate's mansauce all over your rec room floor. No pr0n for jo0.

Originally posted by DR1665
DISCLAIMER This product is guaranteed against defects for a period not to exceed fifteen minutes of your unpacking it wherein one of your dumbfuck friends will have the audacity to put his feet up on the screen surface, thereby puncturing the magic, crystalline membrane, and leaking Bill Gate's mansauce all over your rec room floor. No pr0n for jo0.

The surface itself is built to have things placed on it. I'm sure it's well protected.

Originally posted by etx

Originally posted by DR1665 DISCLAIMER This product is guaranteed against defects for a period not to exceed fifteen minutes of your unpacking it wherein one of your dumbfuck friends will have the audacity to put his feet up on the screen surface, thereby puncturing the magic, crystalline membrane, and leaking Bill Gate's mansauce all over your rec room floor. No pr0n for jo0.

The surface itself is built to have things placed on it. I'm sure it's well protected.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070530-what-lurks-below-microsofts-surface-a-qa-with-microsoft.html

Ends up it doesn't use a touch screen at all, it uses 5 cameras built into the lower part.