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 a 30-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.

Led by Microsoft, surface computing is a major advancement that moves beyond the traditional user interface to a more natural way of interacting with information. 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.

Below is a video from the Surface Team to showcase it's abilities.

More video demo of Microsoft Surface here

Bear in mind that Microsoft Surface is not a prototype product or watsoever, it's a real product on the market. However, currently Microsoft Surface is not available for individual consumer purchase. Microsoft Surface is being marketed and sold to large–scale leisure, entertainment and retail companies in the U.S. and people will be able to experience Microsoft Surface in public locations. Consumers will be able to purchase Microsoft Surface in about three to five years.

With deep pocket(Prices had been mentioned around 5k - 10k USD) and interested to buy one ?

We currently do not have a specific timeline or details on the international deployment of Microsoft Surface.

Too bad.

Discover more about it at Microsoft Surface Homepage or Wikipedia.
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