It's not at all...but yea, that's the first thing I thought too lol
Mike
On 7/12/07, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think that Surface Computing is a Touch Screen Kiosk turned
horizontal instead of vertical. Another innovation from MS.
Isn't it like a $10,000 iPhone, just a little
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/
Video crashed my web browser (FireFox Mac). Guess I'll have to turn on my
PC.
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I think that Surface Computing is a Touch Screen Kiosk turned
horizontal instead of vertical. Another innovation from MS.
Isn't it like a $10,000 iPhone, just a little bit bigger and bulkier?
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I think that Surface Computing is a Touch Screen Kiosk turned
horizontal instead of vertical. Another innovation from MS.
Isn't it like a $10,000 iPhone, just a little bit bigger and bulkier?
Not really, no.
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Isn't it like a $10,000 iPhone, just a little bit bigger and bulkier?
Not really, no.
You mean it can't make phone calls? What the am I getting for my
money!?
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The Table is a _Land of the Giants: the Motion Picture_ prop. The
iPhone made into a table.
Speculation had MS rushing this to market to prevent people from
claiming that MS stole the idea from Apple.
On 7/12/07, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Isn't it like a $10,000 iPhone, just a
Speculation had MS rushing this to market to prevent people from claiming that
MS stole
the idea from Apple.
I don't really see how anyone could have done that, since the project has been
known about
for quite a while. For example, see this, dated March, 2005:
No, it's much less useful that that!
Tom Piwowar wrote:
I think that Surface Computing is a Touch Screen Kiosk turned
horizontal instead of vertical. Another innovation from MS.
Isn't it like a $10,000 iPhone, just a little bit bigger and bulkier?
Actually it's not a touchscreen but cameras placed to watch your movements.
There are similar low end devices in use in some malls displaying things
like fish swimming on the floor and kids try to catch the fish etc.
mike
On 7/11/07, Alvin Auerbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think that